Originally Posted By: friendly_jacek
Originally Posted By: Best F100
Case in point: As many cars are becoming more fuel efficient, many states are not bringing in enough road tax and gasoline revenue, like they did before. The states say they need to increase the rates to fix all of these pot holes.
True story. Some states actually have extra tax for hybrid cars:
http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/car...ditional_Taxes/
Same thing will happen to LED lights. Give it enough time.
OT but Im not so sure about that. Industry still has its big draws, HVAC still has its effect, etc. Those arent going to change much because Rankine and production of torque and other basis of operating loads may not change much from here. Plus, a LOT of lighting has been fluorescent for a long while, so LED is only incremental from there.
Utilities are still highly reliant on operating peaker plants and playing electrical arbitrage due to the swings and changes in demand. I would suspect that changes in consumer lighting, which is really a small total amount and not a big driver for peaking of plants, wouldnt do that much in terms of overall energy sold. Plus, as the economy grows, demand should too.
Many interconnects are overloaded and utilities are looking at installing batteries and other storage approaches in order to smooth demand because many areas are hitting ampacity limits.