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To: Stephen D. French who wrote (28493)	11/8/1997 9:08:00 PM
From: Daniel Colton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31386

Regarding : There is even something quite exotic. Power companies may decide they want to have the ability to control appliances on an appliance-by-appliance basis, because they will save money, not having to build excess power generation, if they can control the appliances that are the most energy consuming during periods of peak load. If you could save several billion dollars by not having to build a power-generation plant, you might spend some of that money on optical fiber to go to someone's house, then turn around and resell the capacity, which you didn't need to control an appliance -- and you only need a few bits per second for that. We could have some surprising solutions become available that might not have been anticipated. When Could we expect the Electric companys to implement a plan like this?