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Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?
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Instead of rolling blackouts when there's a power shortage, why don't we just allow
(or deliberately) the voltage and frequency to drop? Wouldn't that make a lot of
devices use less?
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In <o...@r...home> "Commander Kinsey" <C...@n...com> writes:

>Instead of rolling blackouts when there's a power shortage, why don't we just allow
(or deliberately) the voltage and frequency to drop? Wouldn't that make a lot of
devices use less?

In the US that's a common technique the utilites use
called a "brownout" [a]. They'll drop the voltage
by five or even ten percent.

As to whether this makes any difference with power demand
these days, given the types of loads, is another story.

[a] that term is often misused to refer to "shedding load",
where a power company will black out some sections of the
grid to keep everything else up and running.


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