Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

A shutdown during this period is therefore extremely unlikely.

Do you know? Here the municipality turns off the street lighting for the entire night, while father-in-law is charging his eMegane with 22 kW. Whether that will be only for a few hours or longer depends on the disaster scenario.

Smartmeter

It switches nothing.

Do you know? Here the municipality turns off the street lighting throughout the entire night while father-in-law plugs in his eMegane with 22 kW. Whether that's only for a few hours or longer depends on the disaster scenario.

He doesn't turn anything off.

My heat pump is already registered as a controllable consumer and is subject to blackout periods. One hour in the morning and twice one hour again in the afternoon. At night it doesn't matter. Look up load profiles for heat pumps and wallboxes.

The smart meter doesn't switch anything yet, correct. As long as the supplier has no direct access to consumers like heat pumps or wallboxes, the smart meter or the gateway is the logical component that can take over that.

The shutdown of the street lighting takes place for the sake of saving by the consumer (municipality) and not because the supplier cannot deliver. The supplier wants to deliver, otherwise he earns nothing.

The switching off of street lighting is done to save costs for the consumer (municipality) and not because the supplier cannot deliver. The supplier wants to deliver; otherwise, they earn nothing.

That is of course clear. Fortunately, we do not yet have an energy crisis. I just find it funny that this is happening simultaneously :)

We are currently seeing masses of building plots coming back online. Where previously there were at most 1-2 offers in the city, there are now 10+ offers for building plots. However, at absurd prices (€300 per m2). Apparently, some still want to make a profit. Because these plots were sold for no more than €250 per m2 even during the high-price phase in 2021. But people want to charge for the fact that you can reach the state capital with 500,000 inhabitants by train from the station in 20 minutes.

I spoke with a screed layer yesterday. For the 2nd half of 2023 he still has not a single order for private new buildings. Six months ago he would have received inquiries almost every day. Currently, projects are still ongoing, the industry is still planning quite well, but renovations are already making up an increasing share privately. This will be interesting.

At night, electricity is usually cheapest because few consumers are active. A shutdown during this period is therefore very unlikely.

So far it has been. A nuclear or coal power plant is sluggish, and constant adjustments are not cheap either. However, we can say goodbye to the assumption that night electricity is cheaper than day electricity in the medium term. Probably even more so in summer than in winter, because more solar power is planned from the outset.