Is It a Big Surge on the Grid?

Energy use has gone down over time but we're expecting that to go up as more and more gets electrified from other sources of energy especially electric vehicles. So overall the demand if it was uncontrolled could get a lot more peaky which then starts to become a lot more expensive to service. The grid is designed to cope with moderate levels of surge like that and I think the size of this experiment has been contained so that this is manageable essentially. It's being done by smart meters in people's homes where if people give permission, natural grid can see half-alley data from the smart meter and can therefore determine whether consumption has been reduced.