XFool wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:One day we'll have smart fridge/freezers that can concentrate most of their usage when it's cheap.
Surely fridge/freezers are the kind of things that need to operate when they need to operate?
Up to a point. But they're designed to survive long power cuts without compromising the contents when kept closed. So a first-pass smart scheme[1] would be to treat peak pricing as a power cut and wait it out where possible. And conversely, get ahead of the game in time slots ahead of anticipated rises.
[1] If I were actually doing the job of developing it I'd look in detail and come up with something smarter. It would be no great task for it to learn expectations from experience of daily, weekly and annual pricing cycles in a "fully auto" mode.