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Damn. Epic’s on a roll in my news feed this morning.

Power company regulations allow for some estimation on a handful of meters, but not that much.

Consumers (retail and commercial) are also entitled to contest their bills so if there is no data then there is no proof.

There are also severe penalties to providers for not uploading their data to the market. For example, a small customer (power company) is penalized $250k per hour for data missing.

How will the power company know how much power they need to purchase from the market if they do not know what their demand is or how it is tracking.

Etc. etc. etc.

EDIT: By “regulations” I meant government regulations.

I don’t understand what you mean.

Don’t worry. If the transmission fails, the meter will try again, and again, and again, and again…

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Grid management is currently my business specialisation. I can assure you that maintaining a grid operational is a lot more complex than keeping backup generators at a few key facilities. For example, the smart meters collect data all the time. Even with a power and communication loss, they will continue to collect for a while, storing the data internally. When communication is restored, they will send all their stored data at once. Now multiply that by millions of meters and days of data. The servers are not going to be able to ingest that torrent information. Now, what if the outage was extra long like this one, and the meters ran out of internal storage or charge? How are you going to manage the data gaps?

That’s only meter data. There’s a ton of other systems in play. Very few people realize how delicate and complex power grids are. I can’t speak for Spain, but the US grid is held up by spit, duct tape, brute force and prayers to the old gods. May Cthulhu have mercy on us.

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It’s the Toyota Camry of extraction shooters.

Ooof

Actually, yes. It led to a huge lawsuit and changes in legislation regarding 401k contributions.

These types of requests always backfire. We got a similar request when I worked for a very large corporation and the very first thing I did was create a backup of our Lotus Notes and take it home. Just in case.

Facebook Meta is a cancer.

Even though I have been gaming since Pong (my first game console), I have never played any Elder Scrolls games. This trailer’s voice over is new to me, and it is so strange and nostalgic to hear Patrick Stewart’s young and vibrant voice on the trailer for a game released this morning.

I genuinely thought this was an Onion headline.

I “own” it in Multiple platforms already. I might actually own it now.

Make sweaty/stinky LAN parties a thing again! – Me, a former UT99 sweatlord.

It’s kind of funny. I am an American but I follow this community and it turns out that I have mainly been buying European and Japanese products all along.

As it relates to this post, I like Puma for skate and On for fitness (running, gym, tennis, etc).

The fact that Switzerland is also looking to amend its laws is ridiculous.

Cool, but I am more excited about the French maintaining a fusion reaction for over twenty minutes.

I read the article as well. It was because they did not list the actual fertility rate that I decided to look up the data. The numbers are not ideal and they are indeed in decline (as the article states) but they are nowhere near the bottom of the pile.

Their live birth ranking is nit that bad.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/rus/russia/birth-rate

EDIT: Holy hell! WTF happened to Puerto Rico? That is a shocking birth rate collapse.