Perhaps easier, now it's identified it can be anticipated.
replyLike TV pickup, where advert breaks in television cause surges in power demand.
The classic example is everyone making a cup of tea at the same time during the World Cup half time break.
Something as common as predictable as every minute should be simple to model in.
What's most fascinating about that wiki page is that claim that mass coordinated shut offs of lights etc can cause more co2 to be released.
reply> I'm skeptical that this one minute jitter period is solely attributable to one minute timers in power inverter equipment. It's likely the net scale effect of all cron-like scheduling of actions in everything with a microprocessor
replyThe article says as much:
> The identified synchronization mechanism is not specific to UPSs or battery systems, but reflects a general property of digitally controlled devices operating with external timing signals or periodic software routines
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