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Originally Posted by Minnie
I have a friend in Ontario that used to mention running her dishwasher/washing machine in the wee hours of the morning, due to getting dinged at a higher rate or something, if they ran it during busy hours. It twigged me to that, hadn't really given it a pile of thought, so I started using the delay feature on the DW to have it run in the middle of the night. I tend to be a night owl, so I do laundry while I'm up in the later evening hours (10 pm onward).
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Yeah and that kind of thing is common in Europe as well. The appliances have timers on them so you can delay the usage until the middle of the night when power rates are cheaper.