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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by ribosometronome on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:08PM (#27441651)
You can also bill users for peak usage times when electricity is expensive or requires falling back on non-renewable resources for production with hourly data.
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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by shkkmo on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:14PM (#27441730)
I can think of a number of ways to do that that preserve privacy far better than real-time reporting of power usage.
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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by onethought on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:38AM (#27473981)
How can you charge time of use without collecting time of use data?
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