On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:50:53 +0000, Andy Cap wrote:

Now there's (from the FAQ) one of the scariest sounding bits of
marketing speak I've heard in a long time:

"You can look forward to some innovative
tariffs and services being offered to you"

I suspect you're right,

Aye, that is really scary, that word "innovative" means some spikey
haired red plastic framed glasses wearing sales graduate who has
hardly started shaving let alone have an real world experiece has had
really cool idea.

because what it will allow them to do, is make peak energy *very*
expensive, under the guise of greeness.

Guise is correct as well if the tarrif varies by demand and at the
whim of the supplier people will just use what they want when they
want as keeping track of the peak periods and switch off or altering
ones schedule will be just to big a PITA.

Life's not about to get any simpler, that's for sure. :-{

It could be simple if they provided a gismo with several feeds from
it that you could program to switch on/off in relation to the tarrif.
Power is cheap; turn all the storage systems on (traditional storeage
heaters and immersions or designed heat banks). Power is expensive;
turn everything off except that which is really required. Maybe split
lighting circuits and power distribution so that stuff that isn't
essential will automagically go off at expensive times.

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Cheers
Dave.