Re: [gpm] Demand Response

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 08:06 -0400, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> The idea would only work (I think) for businesses and only when they
> explicitly set it up.  Say you have a business with 1000 laptops.
> Peek time for power is somewhere between 2-3:30pmish.  You get a
> significant discount when you reduce your power usage during those
> periods (you need to sign-up for it).  Let's say your laptops usually
> get 4 hours battery time.   I see the following possibilities: 
> Hot day: Screens get dimmer, processor operates in lowest setting
> Really Hot day: laptops go on battery power for the worst 30 minutes.
> (I'm envisioning they have an internal website to control this, aka
> laptop checks the site every X minutes) 

Sure. Draft a design, although I think this is coming into the remit of
stuff like OHM more than g-p-m.

> I think 1000 laptops all doing this would save (move to another time)
> a large amount of grid usage for one business.   Although the user
> would (almost always) need ultimate say about it and you are right,
> they would probably just turn it back to AC / brighten the screen,
> etc. 

Sure. never try to be cleverer than the user, 9/10 times we tend to get
it wrong :-)

Richard.