Dave Heil wrote:

If you're talking about electrical energy, any of it which is
produced
but not consumed, is wasted energy. I can turn off my
appliances and
lights, but if no one else uses the electricity I'm not using, it is wasted.

Dave,

Electricity supply doesn't work like that.

The production adjusts itself to the load. If the load decreases, so
does production. There is no waste from reduced loading. In fact, if
the load goes down enough, utilities shut down their least-efficient
plants.


73 de Jim, N2EY