Interesting - though I'd be surprised if their domestic model took off ($10k
to save their 15% on you electricity bill means a long time before breaking
even).
Now what would be really exciting would be if your little eTivo was allowed
a great deal of autonomy: rather than just choosing when to buy it could
decide who to buy from, maybe collaborate with other eTivos in the
neighbourhood to get a bulk discount, maybe start selling back to the power
company. And I'm sure there'd be some really interesting dynamics if you
programmed your eTivo to tell lies....
Robert
On 4/29/06, Charles Gieseler <charles_gieseler at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> A story came across slashdot last week about a device for businesses and
> households that takes advantage of dynamic pricing to buy and store
> electricity on behalf of the owner. It uses "a built-in computer powered by
> a Pentium chip [that] will make intelligent purchase decisions, buying when
> prices are low, then storing the electricity for later use."
>
> My favorite quote: "Think of it as a kind of TiVo for electricity."
>
> If such devices become prevalent, I wonder what impact we might see on
> market patterns. Might there be rolling off-peak hours as all agents try to
> buy at the "right time" or are the likely to reach some kind of equilibrium
> where the price remains relatively stable? Sounds like an interesting
> situation to model.
>
>
> Here's the slashdot blurb:
>
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/27/2117240>
> Cheers,
> Charlie
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