Energy Demand-Side Management
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Basics
- A technique used in Smart Grids to help with Energy Load Managment
- It aims to reduce peaks and dips in energy consumption by encouraging some loads to be moved around to make the Electrical Load Factor , and thus make the grid more efficient
- Abbreviate as EDSM? (seems like a relitively unused abbreviation, unlike DSM, and EDM)
Internal Links
- Smart Grid
- Wash Cold / “Tap Cold” Setting on Washing Machines
- Related concept albeit for Hot Water / Thermal “Budget” Rather than Electricity (at least directly)
- Outside of some chemical reactions such as “Oxy-Clean” etc most soaps/stains don’t NEED Hot Water so especially if it isn’t that dirty/just as a “roughing cycle” for ESPECIALLY nasty Work Clothes / Coveralls etc (Ie get the MAJORITY of the dirt/oil off pre doing hot water+softener so no stains get “locked in” etc or you don’t default to the cleaning “nuclear option” if that may not have even been needed
- Also unlike telling people to take colder showers and/or shorter showers, or not use a PC, MUCH easier to get people to do
- Some campaigns/ad’s on this but Learning WHY not just HOW / Evidence Based Laundry / Evidence Based Cleaning can kind of tie into that
- In the concept of Droughts / Freshwater shortages, limits on Lawn Irrigation or wven the somewhat “gross” but practical, “If it’s yellow leave it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down” policy for Flush Toilets, along with other policies/practices can reduce overall water demand as well
- While not relevant to fully Off-Grid systems, for Micro-Grids around the community scale and up, Load Shedding such as Rolling Blackouts (rather than accident caused Brownouts or Blackouts such as an Electrical Pole being knocked over) while not ideal may be relevant in the context of Shutdown Work or Emergency Planning + Contingencies thus may be worth looking into