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This document discusses how smart meters and time-of-use energy pricing can provide households and businesses with more information about their energy usage and help utilities better manage energy loads. It also presents opportunities for green deals, electric vehicles that support the grid, and voluntary agreements for utilities to remotely adjust appliances occasionally in return for lower bills.
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- 1. What this might mean for households and businesses
- 2. A whole new range of ways to see how much energy you use at home, at exactly what time of day and by what appliance. On the internet, smart phone, or a display screen inside at home.
- 3. Digital electricity meters so that utilities know exactly where and when power is used and can target their energy savings better.
- 4. More adoption of ‘time-of-use’ energy tariffs. (When you pay less to run appliances at night, and more in the early evening, to Night Rate Peak Rate save money). $ $
- 5. More ‘green deals’ for homes, where households or businesses sign up to meet energy targets and get rewards to meet them.
- 6. 25% Industry and business use three quarters of electricity in Australia 75% Special contracts, deals and even direct payments for big business to save energy.
- 7. More electric vehicles that charge from and discharge to the grid, helping to balance power loads.
- 8. Voluntary agreements for an energy company to turn some appliances down remotely a few minutes, on a few days a year, in return for lower bills.