alpha24seven

Investment Ideas With Potential From the One-House Grid

Excellent article.

The problem you have revealed is from the law of unintended consequences.

When the the rich move to the one-house grid, you orphan the legacy utility system to the poor. This cause their rates to increase because for every one-house grid there is not an equal reduction in operating and capital costs for the existing utility, therefore the the disadvantaged electric bills will spike. There is no way a wealthy homeowner can zero their bill through net metering and this reduction in revenue to the utilities will not effect everybody else left behind.

Detrimental cause and effect...

Smart Metering: A Smart Play in Energy Efficiency

Am I the only one that thinks this could be a set-up. First you get all this great information on usage and time of day pricing. So does the power company. Now they drill down through the data and start coming up with all kinds of new pricing tiers according to the new data and technology.

Yea I'm not so sure how this will play ultimately. If there is widespread adoption and people start to manage their usage (and bill) well....then it's not much of a stretch to think the utility will have to make up the lost revenue somewhere.

This could catch people out. Like retirees that must run their air-con or heating at 2PM when most people are at the office.