German Govt to Remotely Control Heating, Charging Of EVs

Written by Mary Aultman on January 2, 2023. Posted in Current News

A government agency in Germany announced plans to remotely limit home heating and charging of electric cars under a new scheme

Germany’s Federal Network Agency, a watchdog that regulates electricity and gas in the country, said the plan would allow the power grid operators to remotely limit people’s use of heat pumps and electric car chargers next winter without the user’s consent.

The plans, set to be in place by January 2024, will give energy grid operators the power to artificially curb electricity demand if consumption outstrips supply.

Die Welt reported that the plans had been drawn up in the wake of the German energy grid being put under more strain due to the increasing use of electric car chargers and people using supposed ‘environmentally friendly’ electricity-intense heat pumps in their homes.

The increased demand cannot be caught up with increased supply, meaning the government believes that remote consumption restrictions are the only solution.

The agency reportedly says that the public would require an “acceptance of necessary comfort restrictions” to implement remote-controlled energy grid operations.

Although there is currently no evidence that such devices could be remotely switched off completely, the Federal Network Agency aims to make it mandatory that such devices can be remotely limited to as low as 3.7 kilowatts to enable what they call “peak smoothing.”

Such limitations would effectively cripple the effectiveness of many devices, making it take many hours to charge electric cars with just enough juice for them to travel up to 50 kilometers, according to Die Welt.

The measures will likely be in place by the middle of next winter when Germany will probably see even worse energy issues.

Meanwhile, the EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, and the International Energy Agency warned the country faces a massive gas shortfall in the tens of billions of cubic meters next year.

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Header image: The Heating Company

Editor’s note: this is the Great Reset in action, making people live in cold houses and severely limiting how much they can travel. And you can bet once implemented, this would be permanent.

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