I turn off our mini/wine fridge during peek hours. I haven't figured out how to adjust the new main fridge yet, so I leave it alone for now.

you manually turn down the fridge during the day...? Seems like bad use of time. 

Most fridges already have some sort of turn-on-turn-off thing to regulate the temperature. I guess they can get more frisky with the leeways (a few degrees up or down is fine)

denlillaapan

Maybe if you're charging a Tesla outside or has smarthome devices opportunistically turning on the washing machine or pre-loaded laundry, or deciding how much California heat to endure vs running the AC then yeah, I get it.

I think that's the point, though. Some things pull a ton of electricity, while most of our stuff is trivial. I'd love to be able to set some sort of dynamic demand schedule for the fridge or AC, neither of which need to run at specific times. As is, I change their settings when we enter our peek-pricing period in the afternoon.

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Why Everything Should Have a Price (John Cochrane, Hoover Institution)

> Maybe if you're charging a Tesla outside or has smarthome devices opportunistically turning on the washing machine or pre-loaded laundry, or deciding how much California heat to endure vs running the AC then yeah, I get it.

I think that's the point, though. Some things pull a ton of electricity, while most of our stuff is trivial. I'd love to be able to set some sort of dynamic demand schedule for the fridge or AC, neither of which need to run at specific times. As is, I change their settings when we enter our peek-pricing period in the afternoon.