Legislation often has stupid revisions like this. It's good to see it
getting publicized.

It's not a bad idea to have devices in the home than can optionally take
advantage of managing signalling from the power company as to peak demand.
Tell people they'll get a break on the power bill and you'll certainly see
them play along. Try and force it, well, good luck. Given how trivial it
is to control an HVAC system you'll no doubt see immediate steps to work
around it. That and just imagine the nonsense of someone hacking the
signals used. No thanks.

But none of this has a damned thing to do with boating. Get it the **** out
of rec.boats.