On May 29, 9:04*pm, Home Guy wrote:

Would you consider, say, 2000 kwh? *Would a single month's total usage
of 2000 kwh qualify a customer for a demand meter? *Would 4 consecutive
months of 2000 kwh be the line-in-the-sand for putting a customer on a
demand meter?

How would you justify the infrastructure costs needed to supply such a
paltry service such that demand metering is needed?

@Home Guy:

Just because you are only using 2,000 kWh a month in your building
is meaningless... Your building is equipped with service entrance
equipment which could supply it with far more power if you were
doing things that needed it...

You clearly do not possess enough information or knowledge to
be of any use describing what service equipment you have installed
in your building... You say you are only using 120/208 3-phase
power, well you have no idea what your building is being supplied
with, it could have a 400-amp 277/480 3-phase supply which would
mean that you are only using one or two sub panels fed by an
on premises transformer...

It is *NOT* the power companies' fault that your building's electrical
facilities are GROSSLY over sized for the current occupancy that
you are using it for... But that is nothing the power company nor
the PUC will ever worry about -- as long as your building is equipped
with the service entrance equipment which has 400-amp capacity
you will never be able to get rid of the "demand meter" even if your
actual power usage is very low at approximately 2,000 kWh a
month...

If it is _that_ important to you to no longer have a "demand meter"
then you can hire an electrician to remove the old electrical service
equipment and install a smaller service in-line with what your
actual power consumption is, but until you have all the old power
panels and service head removed from your building, the power
company WILL NOT install a non-demand meter for your building...

You can ask RBM how much that would cost, depending on the
sq. ft. of the building it can be expensive...

~~ Evan