{"id":139041,"date":"2022-05-07T07:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/making-electricity-cheaper-a-cellphone-sized-device-automatically-adjusts-a-homes-power-use-to-save-money"},"modified":"2022-05-07T07:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T12:02:21","slug":"making-electricity-cheaper-a-cellphone-sized-device-automatically-adjusts-a-homes-power-use-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/making-electricity-cheaper-a-cellphone-sized-device-automatically-adjusts-a-homes-power-use-to-save-money","title":{"rendered":"Making Electricity Cheaper: A Cellphone-Sized Device Automatically Adjusts a Home\u2019s Power Use to Save Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-electricity-cheaper-a-cellphone-sized-device-automatically-adjusts-a-homes-power-use-to-save-money.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A cellphone-sized device automatically adjusts a home\u2019s power use up or down to save the consumer money and increase the resiliency of the electric grid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The effects of climate change are pushing electrical grids around the world to their limits. Last year, unprecedented cold weather caused people in Texas to turn up their thermostats, which overwhelmed the power grid and caused days-long power outages. And in California, the power is turned off before there is a high possibility of a fire.<\/p>\n<p>To combat the electric grid\u2019s vulnerabilities and cut down on the use of non-renewable sources of energy, researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have developed technology that automatically adjusts a home\u2019s power use up or down in response to fluctuating prices that are established by real-time market demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cellphone-sized device automatically adjusts a home\u2019s power use up or down to save the consumer money and increase the resiliency of the electric grid. The effects of climate change are pushing electrical grids around the world to their limits. Last year, unprecedented cold weather caused people in Texas to turn up their thermostats, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,39,1512,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-economics","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}