the introduction of demandside policies via smart metering and smart grids could in principle provide the necessary tools to allow more active participation of all demandside actors to price formation thus achieving a more efficient energy onlymodel see also section however in many liberalised power markets many consumers are exposed neither directly nor indirectly to market prices for instance due to regulated tariffs even reinforcing the demandside policies previously mentioned will thus not help to stabilise prices in addition even under the best of circumstances consumers will require massive incentives to forego heating washing cooking or watching television at the moment they originally desired