{"id":8947,"date":"2024-10-22T08:21:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=8947"},"modified":"2024-10-22T08:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:32:24","slug":"the-government-is-coming-for-your-thermostat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/the-government-is-coming-for-your-thermostat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Government is Coming for Your Thermostat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A little sensationalist as this agenda will take time, but it’s already happened<\/a> in some areas where people volunteered and were surprised when their A\/C was cut. I have a previous post<\/a> with a lot of links and more detail as they do want to phase out natural gas and switch everyone over to heat pumps with Biden already investing tax dollars. So it’s not just during heat waves, but you could have your heat cut as well or more likely your thermostat turned down and good luck charging that electric car they’re pulling power from, as California tried mandating new EVs be bidirectional<\/a> (this is a tell of where they want to go). They’ll purposely use the shortages and rationing to jack up rates like in California, and impoverish even more people (a friend of ours said they were paying over $1,000 a month for electricity in California during their heat waves and they have to use a generator when PG&E cuts power in wind storms to reduce fire risk). Already half of the population is living paycheck to paycheck, and credit card debt has moved up over $1 trillion. So they weren’t playing when they said you’ll rent everything (from them) and be (un)happy, but you be a good little debt slave or else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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State utilities have taken to bribing consumers with discounts on skyrocket energy rates and \u2018free\u2019 smart thermostats like Google Nest in order to induce them to turn over control of their thermostats. Once they give up control, they may be allowed only limited manual overrides a month to be able to turn on the heat or air in even the most miserable weather.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/sonsoflibertymedia.com\/the-government-is-coming-for-your-thermostat\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Daniel Greenfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the middle of a summer heat wave and temperatures are rising. Suddenly your air conditioning turns off. It\u2019s not a blackout or a brownout: it\u2019s the new government plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mass government subsidies for inefficient and expensive \u2018green energy\u2019 wind turbines and solar panels combined with bans on efficient and cheap oil, coal and gas, have made energy grids unreliable and costly. States that have aimed for widespread use of green energy like California and Texas are suffering blackouts and brownouts at growing rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of building reliable energy resources, federal and state governments, along with monopolistic energy companies, are making up for green energy with energy rationing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or \u2018smart rationing\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virtual power plants were a green energy buzzword that promised to harness local battery capacity to distribute energy to the grid, but the diminishing promise of solar panels and the power hunger of electric cars has poured cold water on the idea that the \u2018green\u2019 battery devices and useless solar panels will ever reliably give more to the grid than they take from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virtual power plants, like all things virtual, have come to mean power that isn\u2019t really there. Instead virtual power plants have become another euphemism for rationing power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unable to get meaningful savings from so-called battery \u2018distributed energy resources\u2019, virtual power plants now mean using smart thermostats to seize control over homeowner power usage with bureaucrats or AI software deciding how much power people should be using and turning off their heat or air conditioning. Government agencies and monopolistic utilities insist on calling this \u2018efficiency\u2019 rather than what it actually is which is rationing customer power usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State utilities have taken to bribing consumers with discounts on skyrocket energy rates and \u2018free\u2019 smart thermostats like Google Nest in order to induce them to turn over control of their thermostats. Once they give up control, they may be allowed only limited manual overrides a month to be able to turn on the heat or air in even the most miserable weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Families facing summer heat and winter cold find that they\u2019re not just wrestling with each other for control of the thermostat but with their utility company, its software and the government mandates that are out to force them to use less energy even as energy prices climb higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent Department of Energy report revealed the ambitious scope of the \u2018virtual power plant\u2019 strategy while emphasizing the rationing aspect of \u2018smart thermostats\u2019 and \u2018smart water heaters\u2019 which \u201ccan be controlled remotely\u201d in ways that are \u201ctypically imperceptible to the owner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Energy report admitted that by 2020, \u201cthe U.S. will likely need to add enough new power capacity to meet over 200 GW of peak demand; were the U.S. to follow a path towards 100% clean electricity by 2035, new capacity needs could be nearly double\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DOE report provided no serious plan for doubling capacity, even as solar energy and wind turbines are wrecking the reliability and capability of the energy grid, except virtual power plant rationing. That\u2019s why the federal government has been aggressively forcing VPPs at the state level through measures such as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission\u2019s Order No. 2222 to make sure everyone\u2019s energy can be rationed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Energy report emphasizes that \u201cevery purchase is an opportunity to enroll (or pre-enroll) a DER owner in a VPP\u201d and then \u201cVPP operators orchestrate DER behavior using an information technology (IT) platform that can connect to DERs at different points in the electrical chain\u201d such as when \u201cVPP operators signal directly to the DER\u2014e.g., as part of its VPP platform, Google Nest can schedule adjustments to heating and cooling demand through its connected smart thermostat software.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What all that amounts to is your air conditioning suddenly turning off during a heat wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VPP participation is currently voluntary, but many homeowners, especially the elderly, are not aware of what they\u2019re agreeing to and don\u2019t understand how their new smart thermostats work. And the voluntary side is a temporary phase to be eventually eliminated through a combination of \u2018market signals\u2019 meaning very high rates for non-participants and government mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government isn\u2019t just coming for your car and gas stove, but your thermostat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The literal power grab is still being aggressively marketed by the media. A recent Washington Post story offers the <\/a>sales pitch headline, \u201cWhy millions of Americans give up control of their thermostats\u201d. Democracy dies in darkness indeed. Literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consumers are told of the benefits of a connected lifestyle where \u201cat the U.S. offices of Octopus Energy in downtown Houston, a rack of computer servers and a team of software engineers act as the brain of a virtual power plant that reaches its tentacles into thousands of homes across Texas.\u201d And who wouldn\u2019t want the tentacles of an octopus reaching into their home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While power rationing continues to be marketed as \u201cefficiency\u201d, the Department of Energy report reveals that behind it is a \u201cclimate imperative\u201dand an \u201cenergy justice imperative.\u201d The goal of green energy or clean energy was never to increase the power supply but to decrease it. Virtual power plants degenerating into rationing was not a sideline or a detour, but the whole goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dirty little secret of clean energy is that there\u2019s no such thing as clean energy. And the forces behind it know it. From the dirty strip mining for rare earth metals<\/a> to the unrecyclable wind turbines<\/a> and solar panels<\/a> to the petroleum products used to clean them and the coal plants that provide reliable capacity when they go down, there is nothing clean or green about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmentalists don\u2019t believe there is such a thing as clean or green energy either. Their goal is to reduce energy usage by replacing reliable energy systems with unreliable ones, and inexpensive ones with expensive ones, as a way of \u2018Cloward-Pivening\u2019 the energy grid to force energy rationing and the eventual reduction of the human population through the kind of mass deaths that occur due to the lack of air conditioning in France<\/a> and fuel bills in the UK.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy rationing kills an estimated 50,000 people, mostly senior citizens, in the UK and has killed tens of thousands of French people during summer heat waves. Those numbers would translate into millions of deaths in the United States. And that is the next phase of rationing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government is coming for your thermostat because it\u2019s coming for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little sensationalist as this agenda will take time, but it’s already happened in some areas where people volunteered and were surprised when their A\/C was cut. I have a previous post with a lot of links and more detail as they do want to phase out natural gas and switch everyone over to heat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8951,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions\/8951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}