My jurisdiction rolled out millions of Time of Use smart meters only to find that residential users really didn’t change their behaviour much. Demand shifting was something like a couple percent and faaaar less than predicted.
It turns out when you run surveys, it’s the people that like to think about answers to questions that respond to them, which isn’t representative.
45pg pdf government report: https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports... which starts getting good at page 5.
Understated costs and exaggerated benefits. Peak reduction targets ended up with increases in peak demand.
As hard as it is for the HNer to believe, the vast majority of people will just do whatever they want whenever they want.
I see this everywhere: “why would anyone go to this expensive supermarket that sells the same crap as the cheap one I go to? Why would anyone go to that gas station, their price is always higher than the others in the surrounding area. Why would anyone buy that car, it has a terrible TCO, and on and on”
It turns out when you run surveys, it’s the people that like to think about answers to questions that respond to them, which isn’t representative.
45pg pdf government report: https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports... which starts getting good at page 5.
Understated costs and exaggerated benefits. Peak reduction targets ended up with increases in peak demand.
As hard as it is for the HNer to believe, the vast majority of people will just do whatever they want whenever they want.
I see this everywhere: “why would anyone go to this expensive supermarket that sells the same crap as the cheap one I go to? Why would anyone go to that gas station, their price is always higher than the others in the surrounding area. Why would anyone buy that car, it has a terrible TCO, and on and on”