On Monday, 12 September 2016 9:53:50 PM AEST Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote:
Incidentally, the mention of rail service providers being (electricity) demand constrained reminds me that residential consumers are about to be exposed to "demand tariffs" too, and they can be a very good thing to avoid if you have any power hungry appliance:
http://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/victorian-residential-demand-tariffs/
Interesting. I've been wondering how difficult it would be to use some IP enabled switches to control home energy use. If you had a meter on the main power that reports the power use to a Linux system then you could have it turn off non-essential devices and make your PCs stop running BOINC if power use is too high. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/