"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 26/03/16 11:28, tim... wrote:


Telling people that at some random part of the day their electricity is
going to be cheaper and that they should "look out for it", just aint
gonna work


What is both possible and practical is to key the mains frequency to the
price, or have some online access to live markets, and then have very
smart appliances that gobble up e,g. freezer power when a gust of wind
hits scotland.

But we need the smart appliances

and they currently don't exist

and even when they do, they aren't likely to bought by consumers just for
the spurious benefits of time shifting power use. They have to have some
more compelling reason

Hence all the techno numpty babble about fridges that can tell you what
recopies you can make and what things need to go on your shopping list.

Like that's going to cut it - Not!

(and in the mix with the above is the appliance manufactures, seeing what
has happened in mobile devices, thinking that "smarts" will allow them to
charge more and for consumers to "upgrade" more frequently - they are in for
a nasty surprise there IMHO)

tim