On 5/28/2011 9:26 PM, Home Guy wrote:
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Does a "demand meter" give a more accurate measure of energy
consumption?

It's the tariff schedule. Call the business office or look at the bill;
it'll tell you what your rate(s) are.

It's not unusual as others have said for commercial to be on such a
tariff but it's more generally so for manufacturing than simply office
but it'll all depend on where you are.

As somebody else has noted, there will be very specific rules in the
state in which you're located regarding what the utility is required to
do regarding a question regarding billing. Look at that information
that is bound to be available from your state rate commission or
whatever the equivalent is called where you are.

Messing around as you're doing isn't going to get you anywhere at all
useful.

Have you evn verified that the meter is actually physically read on a
monthly basis rather than estimated and the balloon "reading" isn't
simply the annual catchup when they finally do read it? As mentioned
before that would certainly be one possible explanation.

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