HI William, Yes thanks for that added information. I didn't realize that the solar demand charges were getting so bad beyond the monthly base rate ( which is bad enough) I reread that part on the website and its a really good bit of marketing as it doesn't specifically talk about solar.
Feels like Y2K again. jay peltz power On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:59 PM, William Dorsett <wmdors...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Jay, residential demand charges are becoming a big thing. The argument as > I’m sure you know, is that solar customers aren’t paying their share of the > expenses in generation and distribution. So our utility, Westar, has a rate > increase before the corporation commission “decoupling” their fixed costs > from energy costs. And from that they are proposing to charge new solar > customers a high base fee for the use of the grid (~73% of the total bill) > and a lower energy charge…plus a demand charge for capacity required for > the highest fifteen minutes of use each month. This is becoming common > across the US as utilities try to assure their long term rate base. How it > plays out for us is that a high fixed charge leaves not much that solar or > efficiency can change. A 50% reduction of the 27% left for the energy > charge leaves only 13.5% that’s variable. When they add in the demand > charge, it kills the investment incentive that solar offers. Now it would > be possible to deal with high demand charges in the same ways we used in > trying to keep the loads from overloading old and relatively expensive > inverters…timers and lockout relays and such to keep large loads from > coming on simultaneously. Continuous cat and mouse game with the utilities. > > > > Bill Dorsett > > Manhattan, KS > > > > *From:* RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] *On > Behalf Of *Jay > *Sent:* Friday, May 01, 2015 7:06 PM > *To:* glenn.b...@glbcc.com; RE-wrenches > *Subject:* [RE-wrenches] Demand charges for residential > > > > Hi all > > > > A different question. The tesla sites makes the claim that " often power > companies charge for peak rates " > > > > My question is where is this happening in the us for residential customers? > > > > Thanks > > > > Jay. > > Peltz power. > > > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > > -- jay peltz peltz power jay.pe...@gmail.com
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