| Demand is the highest total kWh's used during a
1 hour period between 5 and 8 p.m. |
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Hourly Usage . With this program you will be able to
look at your hourly usage over the past 3 months. |
| Demand is based on the calendar month
because that is how our power supplier bills us and it is
higher during the summer months. So to be fair to everyone
we use the same demand timeframe regardless of your billing
cycle. |
Your new bill
shows you more of the components of your electric usage than
we have done in the past. While you always paid for demand,
you couldn't tell how much. The $5 was determined like we do
all of the components of the bill. We performed a cost of
service study that looks at each aspect of providing you
electricity and then determined the appropriate charge for
each.
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Demand has always
been part of your electric bill. It just wasn't broken out
so you could see it. In the past the metering required
to measure demand on a house by house
basis was not affordable. With the new metering technology
that we now have, you can do as our commercial accounts have
done for years and take advantage of reducing the demand
during critical peak times and save on your electric bill.
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We never intended
our members to shut down the heat or air-conditioning in
their homes. We want you to be comfortable.
You can however save by simply
rescheduling when you do things such as laundry or
dishwashing to a time outside of the peak usage time.
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| How can I monitor my hourly usage? |
| Why doesn't the demand coincide with my
billing cycle? |
| How do we read the demand? |
| How was the $5 for demand determined? |
| Where did the demand come from? |
| How can I save on my Electric bill
without making my home uncomfortable? |
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