In principle load shedding can be used to reduce generation & distribution costs, and save everyone money. But we know in practice it will be us that foots the overinflated costs of the switchgear, unit price will rise perman ently to pay for the extra equipment installed on the distribution & genera ting side, and the generators & distributors will make far more money at ou r expense. Oh, and the data will as ever be misused. What's new.
Also tons of new electronic equipment will be produced in China using dirty coal-fired power then transported across the world, then it will probably end up in landfill quite quickly as it's superseded by something else.
Owain
That is not a standard sized plug. More than twice the size. Good luck at using that in every single socket installation, where a standard plug fits OK
And, of course, it looks perfectly hideous. Just imagine one of those in every socket.
The wemo ones are nearly as bad but they are half the price.
In the electricity supply industry all attempts at demand management result in higher costs - I read that in a link posted by Harry. He really should learn to read them first.
Yes, but GDP will go up.
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That is a problem that is very easily avoided and was for many years until the greens got involved.
It wasn't the greens that shut the coal fired power stations and the nukes that have been shut down.
And it wasn't the greens that refused to build replacements before they were shut down either.
After all, they only have just one MP.
makes more sense to do the switching at the CU with relays. 2 extra lines n eeded, one for switch off at peak times when necessary, and one for the few essentials to always keep on if things go wrong. Trouble is it'd take half a century for most people to then have it. Unless the price variation were severe, in which case it would cost the country billions to rewire. There' s no easy solution.
NT
In article , Hilo Black writes
Which only goes to show that influence is not just a matter of number of MPs.
It wasn't them that got the coal fired power stations shut down, or the nukes that there is no longer anyway to make fuel for either.
Who pushed the 'Large Combustion Plant Directive' and 'Industrial Emissions Directive' through the EU?
Can't have been the greens given what Germany is currently doing with lignite used for power generation.
In article , Hilo Black writes
It was the Greens in the German coalition who insisted on the nukes being closed down.
But wasn't what saw the British nukes closed down.
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