And how does DTE accomplish this? Were houses forced to install remote switches on their ACs or the AC disconnect? Are theor “Smart devices” spying on them? Hmmm.
It’s a smart thermostat.
—”And how does DTE accomplish this? “
Easy peasy, simply interrupt the 24 volts to the thermostat.
Once the smart meter is installed it can talk to other comparable devices.
I’ve paid $5.00/month for ten tears to not have a smart type meter.
“””And how does DTE accomplish this? Were houses forced to install remote switches on their ACs or the AC disconnect? Are theor “Smart devices” spying on them? Hmmm.”””
Yep that is how they do it. also applies to the water heater. I am in Florida and that is how FPL does it. I signed up more than 10 years ago and got a $10,00 discount per month of my electrical bill.
So at this point I have saved $1440 and if they cut off the electricity to the AC and Water Heater for a day, i can always spend the day at a hotel.
And regarding the whiney guy from Detroit who did not know, he is lying.
Smart thermostats that they provided.
And how does DTE accomplish this?
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I know in Florida they really push you to have the kill switch installed on your AC by offering you a discount on your bill.
I don’t know how much the discount is, because I would never allow it.
A smart meter is an electronic device that records information such as consumption of electric energy, voltage levels, current, and power factor. Smart meters communicate the information to the consumer for greater clarity of consumption behavior, and electricity suppliers for system monitoring and customer billing.
Smart thermostat. Central control like this is one reason that utilities and similar government agencies love to install “smart” fill-in-the-blank. Smart power meters, smart water meters, smart thermostats. They can disable things with one keystroke from a central office instead of actually coming out and physically disconnecting anything. It can be used as an actual money-saving and efficiency point...or, it can be used as a means of oppressive central control.
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Wifi thermostat. They probably signed up for a lower rate if they allowed DTE to control it without thinking that it would be shut off during a period of peak demand. It’s called load shedding.
At the Opryland hotel they have an agreement that they can produce up to 10 megawatts within a short period to take that load off the grid. They bought a very large slightly used emergency diesel generator from a decommissioned nuclear power plant. I think it had less than 100 hours total time on it as they would start it up periodically to check operation.