[flagrant_taco]

> If you notice high energy use while cooking, are you going to start eating more salads instead?

Of course, why wouldn't you? If the assumption isn't that effectively unlimited power is available on demand you adjust use accordingly.

On sunny days with excess power maybe you charge and do laundry. On a stretch of cloudy days you avoid long periods of cooking or using large tools like sellers or air compressors.

Adjusting to our environment rather that chasing convenience is a very reasonable approach to makinh a real dent in reducing our environmental impact.

[bruce511]

>> Ultimately the biggest wins are when big appliances and heating/cooling respond to self-production

I think the parent post is pointing out that just measuring usage has limited value. The real value is when you are generating your own alternative. Then simple changes, that you barely notice, can have z big impact.

Some are obvious, hot water, laundry, dishwasher, pool pump, etc.

Between things like cooking can come into play. Lots of dishes can be prepared in advance, and consumed later. An air-fryer uses less electricity than my oven (and despite the name functions in the same way as an oven).

[seb1204]

In Australia there is more and more a network utilisation factor (not sure what the exact name is). In essence this is peak demand in a billing cycle does define the cost for the entire billing cycle. So if I have everything on at the same time I will draw lots of kWh, this will give me a night $/kW that I have to pay for my entire consumption.

So there is merit in keeping peak consumption low to not pay high just because of a single spike.

Never having dishwasher, washing machine and dryer on at the same time is a good starting point.