Yesterday, I wrote about our so far nasty experience with our municipal hydro provider setting up the PeakSaver program. The premise is, the municipal hydro provider wants you to give up a bit of control over your hydro usage if needed and in return they give you an incentive for signing up. So far, the municipal hydro provider is winning and we are left with a pile of electronic junk thanks to BlueLine. Seriously, with out experience using the BlueLine Monitor and the BlueLine WiFi Bridge, I wouldn't wish either on my worst enemy! Talk about crap and I do mean crap! Now, at the moment I am not naming our municipal hydro provider (although they claim to be all about integrity but so far I've seen none of that) but I will and I have every intention of going through my MP (already contacted) and the BBB as well as reporting BlueLine to the BBB. Seriously, pissing off consumers is not the way to go about getting them interesting in energy conservation.
Energy conservation programs rightly executed are awesome as it was done through Ontario Hydro. Everyone was a winner. We got a new programmable thermostat and they got a customer who didn't mind them cycling our hydro during the summer if needed. So incentive programs do work. We knew what the incentive was through Ontario Hydro but not through our municipal hydro. That was our mistake or my mistake because I am the primary with respect to energy conservation especially grants and that type of thing. I should have came right out at asked the municipality hydro provider what the incentive was and then did the research before saying we wanted it. This serves as a reminder BEFORE you sign up to any energy conservation program, do your research first. It will save you a lot of headaches in the end.
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