Azalin Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 That said, what does all this have to do with my Smart Meter which is soon to be turned into yet another revenue stream for the government. Right now it's going to be the water. What next? A user tax or penalty on my fridge because they think it uses to much power? Smart thermostats to monitor/regulate excessive strain upon the electrical grid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 Smart thermostats to monitor/regulate excessive strain upon the electrical grid. I've got a Nest as well. Damn. Well, they could build more power plants but we know that's not happening . Double population in the last 30 years or so but no new plants is so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Smart thermostats to monitor/regulate excessive strain upon the electrical grid. We already have those in MD. You can sign up with the utilities to let them monitor your electrical usage and shut down your AC if grid usage approaches capacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 We already have those in MD. You can sign up with the utilities to let them monitor your electrical usage and shut down your AC if grid usage approaches capacity. I didn't know anyone was already using them for that purpose, but you can see it coming everywhere. Especially with all the 'smart home' technology people are getting, it's just a matter of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Miner Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 We already have those in MD. You can sign up with the utilities to let them monitor your electrical usage and shut down your AC if grid usage approaches capacity. More likely that they'd go to rolling brownouts of complete circuits. If the grid is that close to capacity, a handful of KW's here and there won't help. They'd have to write programs to turn off tons of meters all at once. And then since many AMI systems are on some kind of meter to meter mesh network with radio comms back to the utility, the guarantee that a meter would always get the shut off signal when it's desperately needed isn't really high enough. They'd likely just implement SCADA controls to shut off whole circuits at once, and then rotate the outages around if it was an extended capacity situation. They'd possibly look to implement some islanding procedures as well. Shutting off meters 1 by 1 just isn't as efficient. Much less moving past the meter to a thermostat level where individual loads in the house could be shut off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 Good article. Reveals environmentalism as a totalitarian control mechanism. Briefly addresses desalination which I don't understand why isn't more heavily developed. Instead of that god dammed bullet train no one wants how about advancing this technology? Easy, then they would have no excuse to take total control. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/10/jerry-brown-showers-california-with-more-government/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 More likely that they'd go to rolling brownouts of complete circuits. If the grid is that close to capacity, a handful of KW's here and there won't help. They'd have to write programs to turn off tons of meters all at once. And then since many AMI systems are on some kind of meter to meter mesh network with radio comms back to the utility, the guarantee that a meter would always get the shut off signal when it's desperately needed isn't really high enough. They'd likely just implement SCADA controls to shut off whole circuits at once, and then rotate the outages around if it was an extended capacity situation. They'd possibly look to implement some islanding procedures as well. Shutting off meters 1 by 1 just isn't as efficient. Much less moving past the meter to a thermostat level where individual loads in the house could be shut off. And despite all that, we have them in MD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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