It will happen here, too. The power company can already switch off compressors on A/Cs for homes (if the consumer is stupid enough to agree to it).
“The power company can already switch off compressors on A/Cs for homes (if the consumer is stupid enough to agree to it.”
They are putting rationing capability in place with or without consent. Just before Covid the local electric power company changed the exterior electric meters at every house in my neighborhood to “smart” meters that can be read and controlled remotely. These smart meters give the power company the ability to switch off the power at any individual home without notice or consent.
Since then I have been bombarded with phone calls asking me to join the “voluntary” power management program to help save the planet. In addition I receive mailings at least once a month from the electric company offering smart thermostats and other in home green energy and power management systems at a significant discount. Plus I receive calls and mailings every few weeks asking me to take advantage of the power company’s free energy audit where the company will send someone out to thoroughly evaluate energy usage in my home, and make recommendations for improvements. The power company assures me it has “certified” contractors to perform the work.
It is clear there is an agenda to put in place mechanisms to control energy consumption in people’s homes remotely. The electric power production and distribution capability in this nation is insufficient to supply the renewable electric future government is mandating and there is no plan or program to put in place the infrastructure to supply the required capacity. Some sort of electricity rationing system will be needed. It seems a plan is being enacted to ration electric supply at the individual level, not rely on area wide brownouts and blackouts.
The evidence is strong my electric provider, on its own or at the insistence of government, is putting in place the technology and infrastructure to forcibly ration electric supply, and therefore consumption at the individual private home at any time. Blackouts and brownouts can be micro managed. Bureaucrats can determine the permitted household consumption per household and limit daily supply in a house or apartment to that amount. Going one step farther, electric consumption of the individual can be tied to the person’s ESG score. High scoring people receive a larger allocation of scarce energy. Dissidents, with low ESG scores receive less electricity.
Plug your electric vehicle into a smart charging station at the grocery store. It communicates with a central database. If it finds your house is exceeding the allowed consumption for the month, the smart charging station will decline to charge your vehicle.
Think about it. The electric company makes money by selling more electricity. Yet at a time when electric demand is growing rapidly, electric companies are closing fossil fuel generating plants while investing millions in systems and infrastructure to control and limit consumption. The investment in green power production nationally is insufficient to replace fossil fuels, much less handle increasing demand. This would not happen in a free market economy. More evidence we are in a socialist managed economy.
Look forward to a future where you open windows on hot days and wear coats and long underwear in the house on cold days. Where you use public transportation whenever possible because your electricity allocation will only be sufficient for a few short personal electric vehicle trips locally per month. No more Sunday drives in the country or cross country vacation drives to see Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon. RV’s are a memory. Even travel on public transportation will be rationed tightly for average citizens, particularly long distance travel. After all a Zoom call is just as good as a visit to your sister or parents. Plus the state will use AI to monitor your Zoom call and end it if you are spreading misinformation.
I will not put anything on a network that controls my egress into and out of my home or controls the heating/cooling. They are going to have to turn the grid off to shut me down and they did last Christmas when it was bitter cold, random blackouts. Which in the long run caused struggling heat pumps to work even harder to try and catch up on the heat loss.