what do you mean "discourage use"? they don't want to make good business? we have no A/C, only fan - at night, i turn off and disconect everything, what else is there to do? use horse-powered generator (no horse but we have a cat)? solar energy? put a wind turbine on a roof? eeech.... in half of july we've been in our flat we used 66kw (or whatever, i'm a woman, i don't know). last month it was 214. it's more than 3 times as much. as my polish frind says: it makes my hands and t**s drop to the floor....