On 5/29/2011 9:23 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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How is that a fair or equitable way to bill a customer?
Questionable, but done all the time.

What's there to question about it?

As noted, the utility must supply the facilities and generation capacity
to satisfy peak demand, not average. That costs and the use of
demand-based tariffs provides a strong incentive to the end user to be
aggressive in implementing load-leveling techniques to the end benefit
of both utility and themselves.

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