Programs That Cut Peak Electric Demand Proliferate
On the hottest summer afternoons, some appliances start behaving a little differently around Texas.
At the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa in San Antonio, the lobby lights get dimmer. In Austin, as many as 80,000 home air-conditioners begin cycling on and off at the local utility's behest, as do 32,000 in San Antonio. SeaWorld in San Antonio reduces the amount of electricity powering water-filtration systems for its animal exhibits.
These adjustments, rare and often imperceptible, are part of a new effort to manage electricity more wisely. The theory goes like this: Rather than building expensive ...
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BurningFeet
What? Taking profits from corporations is simply the work of Chicago style thugs! I smell a shakedown here somewhere. I'm going to call my Congressman, Congressman "Smokey" Joe Barton. He'll get to work on an apology to whatever corporations are affected immediately!
"Congressman should be like professional athletes, required to wear the products of whatever corporation they are working for." - Robin Williams
Michael Cosper via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Or we could recognize that if you throw enough people into the equation that no amount of conservation is sustainable and develop a non growth based economy to deal with the future. they should start these practices on houses of over 5000 sq. ft. with two people living in them. Then they should quit encouraging people to move into the area.