On Nov 15, 2009, at 11:47 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Oh my that is insane kw/h pricing. Happen to know what there buy back rates > are? > Here I pay .07 kw/h with a buy back of .02 kw/h.
New York State requires buyback at the same rate as the sell rate. So it'd be .07 kw/h both ways. The utilities hate it of course, but NYS's philosophy is, you've built the grid with guaranteed returns and we need to diversify the supply, so tough. I know they (the utilities) tried to get this changed a few years ago but I don't think they were successful (I haven't been following it lately so maybe it changed and I missed it). Chuck > > I have thought of doing time rates, but for now I turn down p2p, etc, during > peek times and kick it up at off peek. This worked well till the major push > over > to encrypted connections > > Tim Sylvester wrote: >> Talking about electric billing in this thread made me think of time-of-use >> billing and tiered billing rate schedules for electrical usage. PG&E has >> multiple rate schedules. The standard consumer rate schedule starts at >> $0.115 per KWh and grows to $0.44 per KWh for usage over 300% of the >> baseline. They also have time-of-use billing schedules which start at $0.087 >> per KWh during off-peak times in the summer and move up to $0.297 per KWh >> during peak times. >> >> Has anyone considered tiered usage billing or time-of-use billing for >> Internet access? It would be complicated to implement and also difficult to >> explain to customers. If Bit Torrent users are the biggest consumers of >> bandwidth on a network you could benefit by encouraging them to use the >> network during off hours. >> >> Tim >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------- Chuck Bartosch Clarity Connect, Inc. 200 Pleasant Grove Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-8268 "When the stars threw down their spears, and water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile, His work to see? Did He who made the Lamb make thee?" >From William Blake's Tiger!, Tiger! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
