Soooooo......

[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.