On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:35:49 PM UTC+1, The Other Mike wrote:

Equip the entire country of 24 million household with identical fridge freezers
and on average only 1/24 of them would be requiring power per one hour period.
They don't all turn on at precisely 17:32:06 and each present 4.8kW load to the
grid.
So for a typical A++ rated fridge freezer your entire demand control capability
for one hour is 600MW for an installed base of 24 million fridge freezers..
Install the same overall level of demand control for a few hundred commercial or
industrial consumers and the payback for the customer is much quicker, the costs
of implementing it are significantly lower for all parties, the customer sees
100% return on their invested capital in five years or so. The infrastructure to
support this demand control exists now and has done for a few decades. Above
all it requires no investment from anyone but the customer.
All smart metering schemes will require wiring changes/appliance
changes/infrastructure changes. The benefit to the domestic end user is near
zero. The benefit to grid system operator and distribution network operator is
near zero. The only ones that benefit are the parasites supplying and
installing the appliances / equipment.


If the government keep their stupid fingers out, it won't be long before appliances with this feature are available for an extra £5. An 8 bit cpu can respond to frequency, and send the appliance serial number down the wiring now and then, and the power co software will automatically knock £1 off the bill. The customer is free to choose, and it'll become popular because & when its worth it.

With government involvement it'll be nothing but problems and one more parasite ripping us off. Seems they really cant help but be idiots.


NT