| ▲ | coryrc a day ago | |
You won't be able to wash your clothes when you feel like, you will have to adapt to when there is spare power, like in developing countries. In nearly every case, this is actually "we'll take 35% of your bill if you agree to let us sometimes turn off your A/C and clothes dryer between 5pm-8pm". It doesn't require everyone to take the deal, just enough people who want to save money. You can take the discount and use your own battery if you want, or you can pay full price so the power company can. And some will live with the mild inconvenience in exchange for money (which most of us are forced to do in so many different ways). This is just charging people the costs of their decisions. That's capitalism at its best. | ||
| ▲ | helsinkiandrew a day ago | parent [-] | |
It’s also about using finer grained pricing periods (an hour or 15 minutes) with the market price visible to the user - so people are aware that running their clothes dryer (or charging their car) at one time is cheaper than others. The UK introduced cheaper nighttime electricity (and storage heaters that could use it) - economy7 at the end of the 70’s | ||