#dumpsterfire-dot-jpeg

[bitternest]

Oh hey look, something relevant to what I do. The big thing in green energy now is Demand Response - managing power in such a way that the above doesn't happen. It comes down to ingesting a whooooole fuck ton of non-standardized data sources, determining a baseline that energy companies can work with and then hopefully catching outliers before they become a problem and alerting those companies fast enough.

The baseline is easy. The outliers... less so. Sure, some outliers are easy (high temperatures mean increased draw because AC). Others... aren't (bomb threat sends entire school districts home).

And depending where you live, the power grid failures are the least of your problems. Like in California where a blown transformer can. Uh. Burn down half the state.

So yeah, DR is a fantastically finicky business to be in.

No guesses for how it's going.