This Startup Will Pay You to Remote Control Your Fridge

It could be the future of the smart grid

Thomas Smith
OneZero
Published in
8 min readJul 1, 2020

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On September 23, 2019, at exactly 4:55 p.m., I ran around my house frantically switching off anything that uses electrical power. First I tackled the obvious things — I turned off as many lights as I could, set my Nest thermostat to a balmy 75 degrees Fahrenheit, and made sure my dishwasher and dryer…

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