Power companies in France have found a way to make money with energy saving strategies: just in a strange way. In France there is a company that enables you to switch off unneeded, powerful devices in peak times automatically. This means that power companies don't have so many problems with peak usage (and could spare some investments) and you could spare some money.
Saving energy in peak times will save much more in the future, when prices may change with the time of the day for "normal" consumers as well.
But the regulatory commission ruled that Voltalis should pay the power company because "its service would not be possible without the producer maintaining production."
Apparently power companies don't want to sell less energy to the consumer in future. So they asked for money for the saved energy.
In my opinion the ruling of the regulatory commission is just ridiculous. I really hope that this will not stand in front of a court in Europe.
Will we see markings on new devices in the future, saying "Hey, you save 100 W compared to ancient technology with this device. Please tell your power company. Your contract may need adjustment."?
On Twitter this would get a big #fail from me.
