Soooooo......

[RStar]

I went to high school in the City of Industry, and also worked at the Kmart there. And I still didn't eat Chinese food there. Though I did sit on a toilet in the City of Industry (perhaps contimplating Chinese food while doing so, who knows).

[alphabassettgrrl]

Best Stanley Cup playoff series EVER!!! Whoo-hooo!!!! We may have to shell out for tickets. That's likely to be expensive........

[Ghoulish Delight]

Still weird. Why would the size of the meter matter? Why not just have a tiered pricing scale based on usage?

0 to X gallons = A¢/gal
X+1 to Y gallons = B¢/gal
etc.

That's (sort of, ignoring the whole peak hours complication) how Edison handles electricity.

Otherwise someone who is in a small apartment with a small meter that leaves their shower running 24/7 would pay less than someone in a large house that conservatively uses the same amount of water.

[katiesue]

Most apartments don't have individual meters. We're dealing with water usage issues at my HOA. The complex has one meter so there is no way to monitor individual usage. Putting in individual meters has been looked into but it's quite expensive.

Hey most of the city of Sacramento doesn't even have water meters at all. http://www.npr.org/2014/06/26/325760...ave-more-water

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by katiesue

Most apartments don't have individual meters. We're dealing with water usage issues at my HOA. The complex has one meter so there is no way to monitor individual usage. Putting in individual meters has been looked into but it's quite expensive.[/url]

I don't either and it is ridiculous the amount of money I am charged per month on my water bill.

[Alex]

Our complex divvies the water bill up based on # of bedrooms. Which kind of isn't fair since Lani and I have a two bedroom with two people (and we do 50% of our showering at the gym) while the family across the hall has two bedroom and four people.

I don't care enough to complain about it but it seems an odd way to do it.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

That's (sort of, ignoring the whole peak hours complication) how Edison handles electricity.

Oddly, at work, our electric rate is determined by the spike demand level each day. So when we start up our large press and it happens to occur at the same time the AC system kicks on, that is considered our power use rate for the day and that is what we are charged on (the whole day is charged at the usage rate of the spike).

Still shaking my head over that one

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Oddly, at work, our electric rate is determined by the spike demand level each day. So when we start up our large press and it happens to occur at the same time the AC system kicks on, that is considered our power use rate for the day and that is what we are charged on (the whole day is charged at the usage rate of the spike).

Still shaking my head over that one

Seems like a good way to encourage better distribution of power usage to avoid peak-load on the infrastructure.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Seems like a good way to encourage better distribution of power usage to avoid peak-load on the infrastructure.

Not practical. It would be akin to telling a taxi driver to only drive when the traffic is the lightest.

The press runs 24 hours a day and by nature is regularly starting and stopping (it has to stop to change jobs, which can be from 3X to 20X or more per day).

Besides, it wouldn't make a difference when we put the peak load on: even if it was 3:00 in the morning, that spike would still be the rate our entire day would be based on.

[€uroMeinke]

The power company's would argue that, they must generate enough electricity to meet the spikes in your usage otherwise the local grid would come down whenever you hit one of your spikes which would probably be unacceptable to you and your neighbors. It's still difficult to store electricity with the current grid architecture.