When you turn off all your little 'heaters', does your heating bill go up? Or for those in warmer climates, does your a/c bill go down?
I've considered this. I've spent a few hours staring off into space trying to work out how to graph that and see where (if) they cross. I decided it would be difficult, especially without a gas flow meter.
What I have definitely noticed is the heating started coming on 3 or 4 times a day for 15 minute bursts in the office. Losing that extra 100W of constant heat did get noticed.
However, electric heating is off to a bad start due to it being anywhere from 30-45% efficient and the 45% is dubious as I believe it need to be power from and via all the latest grid tech for someone living right beside the plant.
Also, they still ARE spreading propaganda encouraging using more power. Over night cheap tariffs still exist. That is 90% commercially driven an maybe 10% engineering practicalities on stop/starting the plants instead.
Then there are the renewable tariff scams. Next time you are on the phone to your "green tariff" providing utilitiy. Ask them for proof of generations certificates for all the power you consumed and for all the green power they sold. They won't have them. The industry is so loosely regulated they just say they lost them down the back of a filing cabinet. They are traded, IOUd, borrowed, offset, debted, written off etc. etc.
The second things on those of course is that we don't generate any excess power, so switch YOUR meter to a green tariff, just means there is less green energy for eveyrone else, so they will just use dirty power. It saves nothing. The same amount of green and dirty power will get generated, the same amount of CO2 gets released, its just that you are mug enough to pay more for it. Maybe the world is actually a nice place with fair people and that extra money goes to developing more renewables, but I fear that's dream world and it most likely ends up in an Exec staff bonus.