It’s not clear to me that the demand charge will cause bills to increase at all and, on its face, it makes sense to charge separately for peak power consumption as well as total energy consumption.

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jonhohle 4 hours ago | parent [-]

As someone with a demand charge, let me disagree. The worst single hour out of 60-70 throughout the month is used and in my market it’s about $19/kw demand. Turn on the AC once during that period, $80. Happen to have to have an oven or microwave going at the same time, you’re probably over $100. For one hour on one day of the month. Once you screw your month, you’re free to do it the rest of the month, but it only takes once.

	▲	idontwantthis 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What you have described is an obviously terrible system that doesn’t incentivize lower power consumption. That’s not how it’s going to work in Nevada. It will be the highest 15 minute period of each day, so if you spread out your power usage you have room to game the rates and save money. And if you have a bad day it will only cost you a dollar or two and the next day is fresh. Plus it’s not on top of the total consumption. The consumption rate is getting cut so that people should be paying roughly the same amount as before.