EXT wrote:
"dpb" wrote in message ...
EXT wrote:
The local utility just installed this type of meter on my house. The
politicians claim you can save money. However, it is just a rip-off, you
don't save money, it is a means to charge you more for electricity that
you use during peak times. This means higher cost at daybreak and supper
time, moderate cost during daytime, and the same cost you are paying now,
at night. The only way to not pay more (not save money) is to do
everything at night after dark, when air conditioning needs are less and
businesses have shut down....
It is _not_ a "rip-off" at all. It will, in the long run, end up saving
significant costs as load is balanced more evenly and the utility can at
least defer, if not eliminate entirely, more generation capacity for the
peak load.

You can choose your convenience or to minimize your outlay at your own
preference as to which is more valuable to you.

What you can't do is have the convenience _and_ avoid at least some of the
added burden that convenience costs...

Except if you have the old meter you pay a standard rate, if you get the new
meter you pay the standard rate at night, and the inflated rate during the
day, how is this saving money for the new meter owner which the politicians
are claiming?

We already defer much power usage to off-peak hours as we are retired, but
our electricity bill is still quite high because some usage cannot be moved
from daytime hours.

Depends on the rates, of course, and the deferred usage patterns.
Whether is less or more net for individual is dependent on those
factors; what politicians say is, as usual, immaterial.

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