“Stimulus” Money Being Spent For Studies On How Best To Change Your Behavior
Posted by Gateway Guest Blogger on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 5:17 AM
Posted By The P/Oed Patriot
While the Stimulus has done anything but stimulate, it has created a few jobs in the “research” department of 10 utility companies.
What are they researching?
The best ways to change your behavior of course…
According to the Obama Administration’s Recovery Act ‘Smart Grid Programs’ website, smartgrid.gov:
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) provided the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with about $4.5 billion to modernize the electric power grid. The two largest initiatives resulting from this funding are the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) program and the Smart Grid Demonstration program (SGDP).”
A part of the Stimulus funded SGIG program is a “Consumer Behavioral Study”. The Behavioral Study is to help determine what resistance there may be to the Smart Grid’s “Real Time” or “Dynamic Pricing”(Under the Smart Grid you will be charged for your electricity by the minute and the price will be based upon demand.) and utility or third party control over your appliances (Also known as Demand Response Appliances).
While those are some of the main reasons given for the behavioral studies, in a document titled “U.S. Department of Energy Smart Grid Investment Grant- Technical Advisory Group Guidance Document #2″ a “key” goal is revealed:
“A key goal of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) consumer behavior studies is to provide experimental evidence that certain treatment variables are more or less effective in changing behavior than other options, including the status quo. At the same time, these studies will function to inform utility management, regulators, and policy makers of the economic and operational issues to be expected in a larger, system-wide implementation of those treatments tested.”
Basically they want to know if the Government, and the Utility Companies, should use a stick or a carrot to get you, the public, to accept the higher Dynamic Energy prices and their control of your appliances through the Smart Grid and if doing so will force you to change your energy usage behavior.
Now if you are lucky enough to be asked, or forced, into one of these “behavioral” studies don’t worry, the amount of information the Department of Energy wants the Utility Companies to collect on you is minimal. It only involves information like:
- Education Level (Head of Household)
- Annual Income Level (Household)
- Working Full Time for Pay?
- Housing Type
- Owner/Renter?
- Number of Occupants
- Occupant with a Chronic Illness or Disability?
- Occupant Home Monday to Friday Sometime Between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. at Least One Day a Week?
- Occupant Working from Home at Least One Day a Week?
- Air Conditioning?
- Electric Clothes Dryer?
Isn’t it nice to see that the Obama Administration is actually creating jobs..?
Jobs that will help the Government determine what is the easiest way to get you to change your Energy Usage Behavior and accept the Smart Grid…
That is the kind of change any Environmental Dictator can believe in…
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Jamessir Bensonmum commented:
Resist this. I don’t even know where to start, but I resolve to help spread the word about this idiocy and help people opt out. Thanks for posting this story.
Galt commented:
This is nuts, why can’t they just leave us alone?
Dereubilides commented:
I think bureaucrats should determine how I behave! Government knows best! Al Gore is brilliant! /s
Jess commented:
#2, Why not, indeed? Recall the aphorism about the tyrant ocasionally being sated, but those who belive they’re doing “good” never are…
Cat lady in Texas commented:
This is nuts. Obama & EPA going to decrease power to Texas in the summer when we need AIR CONDITIONING. It’s all NUTS!!!!!
Black Sabbath commented:
Republican leadership could be jumping all over this, but they won’t. In fact, they won’t do much of anything. Has anyone heard from them lately?
Stop the Meter commented:
Shhh remember this is all supposed to be a tin foil hat conspiracy theory….
#1AMERICAN commented:
the answer to all questions is…no of your fukken business….move along
Sasja commented:
Government has been collecting this info for years using the Census Bureau. I worked for the Bureau in the 1990′s doing surveys and these, and other, data were collected monthly, primarily thru the housing survey. Of course then, one could opt out.
KornKing commented:
Next up-Sheryl Crowe will be asking everyone to bend over for inspection to check for excess toilet paper use
owl commented:
I helped elect Repubs. They are suppose to be my mouthpiece.
I do NOT hear them. The head GOP just plain makes me mad when I hear him about the Trump debate and not this. Why? I was so looking forward to it. No, they have to knock down anyone that actually shoots through the MSMPPS with a direct hit. Observe treatment of Palin and Trump.
Hellooooo Perry. You need to be back on the energy and spotlight what they are doing in Texas. How about starting by asking those MSM Professional Pooper Scoopers why they are so uninterested in what these people are doing to us with their energy noses.
BS61 commented:
My sister works for an electric company, and says there is no way to store all of this data. There is no database big enough!
Rose commented:
N.U.D.G.E. – Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness is a book written by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. The book draws on research in psychology and behavioral economics to defend libertarian paternalism and active engineering of choice architecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_%28book%29
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,601622,00.html
Glenn Beck: From Nudge to Shove
Published September 28, 2010
FOXNews
Cass Sunstein – Obama’s Regulation Czar: Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there’s a lot that can be done to manipulate them.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,601622,00.html#ixzz1gWU5kIKS
Rose commented:
#2 Galt – They cannot, it’s compulsive obsessive – they are the most abusive of the Malignant Narcissistic powermongering micromanagerial sociopathic dictators and thieves – they come not but for to kill, steal and destroy. And in them if found NO LIFE at all, whatsoever. they cannot give what they do not have, what they are NOT.
PROVERBS 30:
11. There is a class of people who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
12. There is a class of people who are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their own filth.
13. There is a class of people–oh, how lofty are their eyes and their raised eyelids!
14. There is a class of people whose teeth are as swords and whose fangs as knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among men.
15. The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give! There are three things that are never satisfied, yes, four that do not say, It is enough:
16. Sheol (the place of the dead), the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that says not, It is enough.
17. The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young vultures will devour it.
Patriot Act commented:
So, with “dynamic pricing” there will be no way to check your power bill to see whether or not you’re being correctly charged, since the rate will be varying from minute to minute? I guess you just have to take your power company’s word for it. Great plan, no opportunity for abuse there!
Eddie Baby commented:
How about spending less money of this crap and more on building power plants?
KornKing commented:
#17:Eddie-How would that make the bears and the deer feel?
Afterseven commented:
LANGUAGE POLICE ALERT:
Its the Spy Grid not the Smart Grid.