Either you pay to trim demand, or you pay a lot more to have power capacity for a few hours a year Some utilities pay to be able to turn down the ac slightly for a short period at the peak. You don’t really notice but it adds up to a lot of power if you do it across a bunch of homes.

Is that a nod to the Paul hogan tourist ad for Australia when he said we’d throw a ‘shrimp on the barbie’?

Not being able to get drunk when and where you want speaks to the darkest fears of the Australian psyche