On Saturday, 26 March 2016 22:33:07 UTC, wrote:
Rod Speed wrote:
But it will work fine with clothes drying, dishwashing etc
where its fine to do it at the cheapest rate in the middle
of the night. Same with water heating and heatbanks
and would allow charging at the higher cost when you
run out of hot water etc without needing to duplicate
the heating elements as you do currently.

That's how the systems that already have smart meters do it.

How?

I already run my dishwasher, tumble drier and washing machine in the
small hours. How will a smart meter help me do that?

Why can't the supplier simply tell me (or the appliance) directly
over the internet? How does a smart meter help?

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Chris Green
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Smart meters will be nothing to do with time in the future.
It will be to do with availability of electricity.
ie electricity will be cheaper on windy and sunny days.

It's called electricity demand management.
A lot of the brain dead here can't understand this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_demand_management