In misc.industry.utilities.electric default wrote:

| But more tanks lose even more heat for the same amount of water.
| Fewer larger tanks beats more smaller tanks.
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| Utimately, your goal is hot water to USE, not hot water to store...
| the only reason you have a tank at all is so you'll have enough
| hot water when you want it. So you want a tank that JUST
| big enough to meet your top demand, anything bigger than that
| isn't helping you any, and IS increasing your heat-loss.

But you do want to have enough to store, to use, across periods of
rate/cost cycling, so you can optimize the time frames in which you
heat the water to minimize costs.

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