Originally Posted By: Wolfgang
As far as paying a higher premium for peak energy consumption times. It COULD come to that if ...


Sorry, there is no "IF". Energy going to go up in costs regardless what anyone does, metering and data logging technology keep going down in price, and pressures to keep consumer costs down so not to price getting-poorer-by-the-day American public will only become more urgent.

With this trends peak time usage will be luxury in a very near future.

This is not all together bad, by spiking peak costs we will be able to keep peak demands from exponentially growing. This simple market effect will do more to get everyone more energy efficient than 10 White House initiatives.

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