Scenario
After getting home in the evening, Bob opens the Smart Grid application to check his overall power consumption for the day. He notes that this consumption is higher than usual. Then he checks the hourly consumption, noting that it was highest during the afternoon. To find out why, he examines the power usage of his devices in more detail, discovering that much of the power was being consumed by his central air conditioning.
To see whether the additional power use is costing him much money, Bob looks at the current price information being provided by the grid. He finds that it is a peak usage time and that prices are high.
In order to save power and money, Bob increases the set point of his air conditioning by several degrees. He also checks the status of his power storage and decides to sell some of his extra power back to the utility company, taking advantage of the peak-time prices. He creates a transaction scheduled to take place an hour in the future, saves it, and closes the application.