Privacy concern, eh? Don't you think the power company already knows how much power you're using?
Infrastructure is built out to handle peak load. That means that they've spend probably double on your power infrastructure to cover, what, the 2 hottest weeks of the year. If they can reduce the peak usage, they could cut back a significant amount of the total cost of the system.
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Privacy concern, eh? Don't you think the power company already knows how much power you're using? Infrastructure is built out to handle peak load. That means that they've spend probably double on your power infrastructure to cover, what, the 2 hottest weeks of the year. If they can reduce the peak usage, they could cut back a significant amount of the total cost of the system.