On 2012-04-27, at 12:04 PM, chacuff wrote: > I've never know of a utillity to give away power...
Welcome to Ontario...! > usually when the power flows to another utillity on the grid it is billed at > a wholesale rate... It's not, believe me. The newspapers say we GIVE it away, and throw in MILLIONS to make the "deal" acceptable. > I'm not sure stock holders would allow a give away.(of course this may be > government owned generation) It's government owned---natch! > Certainly any excess capacity should be sold, especially at a rate that would > be in excess of the fuel and operating costs required to generate and > transmit it. Usually it's at a premium and quite profitable for the utillity > with the excess capacity. Why worry about profit when you have millions of tax payers footing the bill? > > Demand billing usually has options in it as well that allow you to opt out > but at a higher rate per KWH than if you opt in and use energy during the off > peak hours. Here in Ontario there is NO option to opt out: smart meters are universal. ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
