476 billion to do something they already know or can do ever since analog.
hello a new name for off peak or power cut off on demand. off peak is great it throttles your power useage to select high power consuming devices ( waterheaters, air conditioning, electric furnaces) it's also great at burning out your light bulbs, electronics when they issue the kill command that starts undervolting and throttling your usage.
this is a benefit only for big businesses who do not sign up for it. much like daylight savings time, it saves your employers money on electricity for lighting as you are the one having to be in the dark hours using electricty that you have to pay for instead of them. that also has a huge impact on your health as your daylight hours are cut down in the spring and fall and people tend not to go outside and exercise when it's dark out and plop down infront of a t/v instead. studies have proven this.
memadmax is dead on right, it's basically a system for business designed by business to benefit at societies expense. i can't wait for you guys to start noticing your computers burning up and your new tv's burning up or going dim along with your lights every time it kicks in
you're really going to enjoy only being able to cook in your oven or wash your clothes in the middle of the night when it's convienent for big businesses not sucking up all the electricty and the power plants having excess power going to waste. i'm going to laugh when you get to the best part of your show on your day off from work when the a/c cuts off and they shut off power to your home in the middle of your favorite show or movie and it's raining out.
how smart will your smart grid be then?
that's exactly what the smart grid is all about. anybody with off peak can tell you how many light bulbs they replace every year due to the dimming.
you love microsofts security right? your going to love hackers being able to do things like turn power and lights in whole neighborhoods or states for a nice air plane ride their significant other is taking while going over you so they can send a message in home or street lights how much they love each other.
hell i'd be happy just to be able to shut your power off in mid game before you could shoot me in COD
you laugh now, but this is what will be possible once it's completed. i'm just glad it will be a long while before skynet comes around after it's done, i'd settle for some dumb hacker every one will be able to put 2 between his eyes.
and if you think i'm kidding or this is a joke i have built the very infrastructure you're using and what i haven't i can say either my father and uncles their cousins or grand fathers and great uncles have from sea to shinning sea and the gulf. the gregory b. jarvis damn in hinkley new york to the matamorous to houston transmission line to the wind turbine farm in the dakota's and the trasmission line carrying it to the nuclear plant in monticello and the sherco plant in becker next to my parents house.
i know more about this smart grid then most snots on here proclaiming me and memadmax don't know what we are talking about. unlike you guys i actually get to talk to the planners and operators and line men who use what i've helped build for them. what i don't know i can go next door to a bunch of guys managing & operating it or the community where it's being built and ask them. i don't really need to since a peice of it is being built practically in my back yard.
as i'm already apart of the smart grid i'm telling you how it actually works, right now today, and what i'm told by the people who are flicking the switches how it works now and will work in the future.
+1 to memadmax don't bother responding to the snerts, let them find out the hard way, i don't care if they find being throttled and cut off for using too much power. i know me and you will have a home generator system and not care. i already do thanks to the mighty mississippi and a pet science project of mine from high school. thanks to an old power production law NSP/Excel actually pay me .17 for extra kwh's and if i ever decided to upgrade my gene i qualify for a federal grant for the amount of excess i have produced since then hydro electric ftw! ( i built this back in the 85-89 drought ) ty to any one from niagra mohawk and the tennessee river valley authority for the inspiration.