alt Hacker NewsMonthly electricity bills are based on usage, and it works well but there’s a limit to how surprising a bill can be. The difference is the relative orders of magnitude you can be charged for these services you can go from 20$/month to 200k/month without warning.
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rolisz • today at 12:08 PM
In the UK there are prepaid electricity providers: there's a card reader at the power panel. When you run out of credit, power cuts off, it resumes when you pay again.
There is also a hard physical limit on how much electricity you can use before you blow out the fuse box