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Cooper, Erving and Savage LLC - NY

Clifford C. Rohde focuses his practice on land use and zoning, renewable energy facilities siting, real estate and leasing, and regulatory compliance. He maintains the Wind Power Law Blog, which focuses on wind energy legal and zoning developments. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Rohde was general counsel and chief compliance officer to a multi-state mortgage lender. He has helped telecommunications carriers to resolve corporate disputes and to advance policy agendas before the Federal Communications Commission and Congress. Mr. Rohde is a Spanish speaker and spent over eight years investigating, promoting and defending international human rights, including with the United Nations. An advocate of alternative dispute resolution, Mr. Rohde is a FINRA arbitrator and community mediator. In addition to his legal experience, Rohde has ample professional experience in project management, marketing and communications. He is Vice President of the Cornell Club of the Greater Capital District.

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Blogger now on National Grid’s smart grid

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Posted August 18, 2009 with 121 reads

Keywords: efficiency, energy, national grid, new york, smart meters

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This blogger has been chronicling his attempts to hop aboard the “smart grid” bandwagon. Well it finally happened August 12, after my July 20 inquiry for a status update of my request. On that date, National Grid appears to have installed a new “smart meter” on my house. (I say “appears” only because no one told me it was going to be installed; I found out only because I received a signed agreement from National Grid in the mail and went and checked the meter.)

It took some time to get-r-done, but I do realize that National Grid is attempting to roll out a wider program in the upstate New York area and beyond.

While more updates will follow, I note that as a consumer I do find it frustrating that I am not aware -yet at least- of any way to obtain usage information other than by going outside my house and looking at the meter. This analog solution to a seemingly digital issue seems a bit archaic.

As of March 2009 the SC1C rate program entails the following hours:

RATE PERIODS:	Summer (June, July, August)	Winter (December, January, February)	Off-Season (March, April, May, September, October, November)
On Peak	11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., weekdays	5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., weekdays	N/A
Shoulder Peak	8:00 a.m., to 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., to 8:00 p.m., weekdays	9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., weekdays	N/A
Off Peak	8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., weekdays All hours, weekends Independence Day	8:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m., weekdays All hours, weekends Christmas and New Year’s	N/A
Off Season	N/A	N/A	All hours of all days

So it would appear that I (well, my family is engaged in this process as well) have a few days left of experiencing smart grid benefits (or pain) before moving to the off-season.

While I do understand that fall and spring traditionally experience less energy use than summer and winter, why would it not be compelling, if incenting consumer behavior is necessary to help control load requirements, to continue peak, shoulder peak and off-peak hours in these “off” months?

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