Total Smart Grid Control: ”Warren Buffett Wants to Tell You When You Can Wash Your Clothes”
Melissa Melton
Activist Post.com
Friday, January 9, 2015
Bloomberg News began its recent piece on this with the slightly different line, “Warren Buffett wants to tell you the best time to wash your clothes.”
But the article continues on with not just Buffett wanting to give you a friendly reminder of a more cost-effective time of day to use energy….
No apparently, in conjunction with Siemens AG, Buffett’s UK Northern Powergrid Holdings Company is testing a new smart-grid system that will be able to literally take control of when a homeowner can use their appliances. They are testing, “a so-called smart grid that has the ability to control when consumer appliances will be used in the home.”
Bloomberg is using the phrase “behavioral shift.”
Hundreds of millions of smart meters have been installed all over the globe at this point. Testing of these kinds of systems is going on right now in the U.S., United Kingdom, Australia and France among others. Some smart grid projects are using smart meter systems that send signals from every outlet in a home every fifteen seconds, essentially giving anyone sitting at the grid’s control hub a complete view of every move involving energy inside a home.
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