$700-a-year increase running an airconditioner & snap price rises of as much as 15,000 %

[poppa smurf]

don't know how they would be able to shut off just your air-con unless it is on a totally different switching arrangement.

would have to be remote controlled or the blokes they send around to manually shut it off would want to be big boys.

[lisaishername]

Originally Posted by poppa smurf

don't know how they would be able to shut off just your air-con unless it is on a totally different switching arrangement.

would have to be remote controlled or the blokes they send around to manually shut it off would want to be big boys.

Simply, they wouldn't. I haven't heard of any smart meters containing solid state relays yet. Tho Smart meters do contain cellphone transceivers at the moment its for large apartments or units for monitoring usage.
http://forums.radioreference.com/ele...te-cutoff.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...offs-1.2834439

“Some person may live with medical equipment necessary to live. So we think it's [imprudent] to remotely disconnect electricity.”
Moisan-Plante said Hydro-Québec charges high fees to reconnect cut-off customers, and that's another pressing concern.

Cha Chiing!

It looks like they just shut off your entire house not just your aircon and its done via a dispatch.

If they want to shed loads they can just shutoff the entire suburb or town not individual houses.

[poppa smurf]

Originally Posted by lisaishername

If they want to shed loads they can just shutoff the entire suburb or town not individual houses.

you're talking about the old rolling blackouts......would not be tolerated nor allowed in this day and age.......Certainly with no benefit to consumer or reason behind it.

[lisaishername]

Originally Posted by poppa smurf

you're talking about the old rolling blackouts......would not be tolerated nor allowed in this day and age.......Certainly with no benefit to consumer or reason behind it.

http://www.theguardian.com/environme...ires-melbourne

On Wednesday, the Victorian premier Denis Napthine, who has introduced an effective ban on the construction of wind turbines, talked about the need to "reduce the supply to some households".
He's talking about cutting the electricity to homes, during the hottest part of the day.
"The government is insisting that priority is given to electricity supplies for hospitals, nursing homes emergency services, public transport and major infrastructure," he said in a radio interview, and he also noted that essential services "will be exempt" from power cuts.
The blackouts were exacerbated by repair delays at one of Victoria's major power stations and problems with the Basslink power cable from Tasmania.

Either these reasons are needed before they will initiate rolling blackouts or we have an economic collapse and nobody is able to pay the bills.

Will not be tolerated? Of course there would have to be a reason behind cutting off the power. Melting high voltage lines. etc

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/su...206-325e0.html

"The main cause of network faults during hot conditions is overloading," Citipower and Powercor spokesman Lyall Johnson said.
He said most customer outages were caused by high and low voltages, fuse failures and transformer failures.
"We encourage customers to monitor their usage of electricity in periods of extremely hot weather and, where possible, reduce their usage," he said.
Stuart Allott from distributor United Energy (supplying south-eastern suburbs to the Mornington Peninsula) said 45 of approximately 20,000 street-level low-voltage circuits failed during the heatwave.
"Prolonged heat can cause our transformers to be unbalanced or overloaded due to customer load increasing as a result of high air-conditioner use, and we only truly know what peak load they can take when we get a set of very hot days in a row," Mr Allott said.
He gave the example of McKinnon, in Melbourne's south-east, as an area that had blackouts. A "peak demand issue" was identified in a small area of the suburb and works were fast-tracked to improve supply reliability, he said.

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by lisaishername

http://www.theguardian.com/environme...ires-melbourne

Either these reasons are needed before they will initiate rolling blackouts or we have an economic collapse and nobody is able to pay the bills.

Will not be tolerated? Of course there would have to be a reason behind cutting off the power. Melting high voltage lines. etc

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/su...206-325e0.html

Most of the black outs caused in bush fires is for health & safety reasons when it comes to HV equipment tripping out (intentionally), Smoke around HV equipment is very dangerous for people fighting fires, you will be surprised how HV power can discharge through smoke, not many people know this fact but a CFA fiery will certainly know of it.

Most times the authorities will have the power switched off for this reason.