Hi gang. I don't really want to get into discussions about rates and charges at individual utilities because there are so many different ones represented by territories you all work in. Probably hundreds.
So if we could keep the discussion to design and equipment strategies in this age of unreasonable charges, that will be helpful for the many. Tom Lane wrote at 06:09 AM 1/28/2017: >The Demand charge I am familiar with is the Duke Energy's demand charge based >on the highest 15 minutes recorded in the monthly cycle . I do not know about >FP&L 'S I have heard that utilities in Florida are going to start using Demand > Charges like this AND /OR Time of Day on residential customers ! .Also if a >customer ( typically one who uses an instaneous electric water heater I.e. >11,000 watts ) blows the transformer THE CUSTOMER pays for the transformer >upgrade in all cases by all utilities . FP&L , Duke , and the large utilies >in Florida hate residential and commercial solar AND look ALSO  for any way >to gouge their customers . Any advice on how to overcome Demand  Charges and >time of day Charges CHEAPLY like the use of timers and or other strategies is >important . Sizing adice on batteries and inverters also . Thanks . Gator Tom _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: [email protected] Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
