Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by eitally on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:35AM (#17713229)

Some electricity utilities offer this as a sort of service to their customers, where they detect high grid utilization days and notify customers they can save $ by reducing consumption on those days. Here's PG&E's page about their version: https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...

It's not "smart" or automated, but it's a baby step.

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Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by kmc059000 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:09AM (#17714521)

This concept is called Demand Response and is quite prevalent. Consumers receive a discount for reducing their load at peak times.

This frequently targets very high demand customers rather than residential for the simple fact that it's easier to ask a company to delay starting a single piece of machinery than to reduce the load on an equivalent but large number consumer appliances like refirgerators.

Doing this at a residential level will require significant costs to support at a residential scale. Technology is the key in solving this problem.

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Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by LgWoodenBadger on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:31PM (#17717267)

I've been signed up with PECO for years in Pennsylvania for their SmartSaver program that targets my residential AC during the hottest summer months. I get a bill credit every month for participating.

https://www.peco.com/WaysToSave/ForYourHome/Pages/SmartACSav...

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