Re: A research team has managed to coordinate 100 domestic air conditioners to stabilise the power grid in real time, as if they were a flexible power plant.

On 2025-06-14 23:17, john larkin wrote:

Nowhere in the post does it say that air conditioners are generating
power...the reduction of fuel use is due to increased efficiency of
power usage.

Improving efficiency by load shedding means hotter homes. Why not just
mandate that no thermostats can go below 80F?

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That's not what they are doing. They are changing the load in tiny parts
of the cycle, 50 or 60 times per second. Changing the load waveform.