Electricity in France is a pretty interesting thing. In addition to having more nuclear power generation than anyone else in the world France’s main electricity and power company, Électricité de France (EDF), gives its customers the ability to control how much power they receive. You can choose how much electricity gets sent to you depending on the amount of stuff you have pulling power in your home and your peak usage times.
To summarize, you pay a flat fee for the amount you’ve selected. The downside is that if you go over the amount you’ve chosen the power cuts off, leaving you in the dark. To fix that, all you have to do is turn off whatever put you over the limit and you can turn on the power again. If you stay under that amount everything’s great.
Here’s an article that explains how the system works. It sounds like a pretty inventive way to manage power consumption. Sounds good in theory, anyway. I wonder how it works for people in real life.
I would imagine it would get pretty annoying. In theory, sounds good though. I’m more curious about ways to harness our own power and get OFF the grid.
Already the 4th episode
It’s fine but you seems to be out of breath and this or the next episode will be certainly the last series one. However I want to say to you :Tu es un trait d’union entre les Etats-Unis et la France.
It doesn’t work for people in real life. You have to pay for too much capacity which remains unused most of the time in order to handle those occasional peaks – that or risk frequent power cuts as your fuse trips. It’s an inventive way to rip off consumers, making them pay for electricity they will never use