Will a utility suggest customers leave their home AC on full-blast during the day because of net-negative demand by '26?
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Resolves YES if I hear before end of 2025 of any example (including through the comments of this market) of a utility company publicly suggesting that its customers leave their home AC running full-blast during the day so that their house is cold when the customers return, with the underlying rationale being that there is net-negative electricity demand based on renewables so it's in the utility's interest. Resolves NO otherwise.

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Wouldn’t leaving it on full blast increase future heating costs later in the day? I can definitely see something along the lines of getting people to have their house reach the proper temperature while they’re still at work rather than adjusting the thermostat at home.

predicts NO

That would be a kind of stupid way of "solving" the problem, so a distinct possibility in California. Smarter would be to massively change the pricing of electricity as a function of the time of day, but that would make too much sense.

Will this resolve conditional on the reason? Or will any such suggestion count?

The Netherlands is struggling with capacity problems in the electricity network. I can imagine that leads to such a recommendation in upcoming summers.

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@ozan The reason matters. It must be because of (or partially because of) net-negative electricity demand.

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