[RE-wrenches] Demand Charges

[Jason Szumlanski]

Tom, are you sure it isn’t the highest 15 minute period for the last
rolling 12 month period? That’s how FPL is set up. It’s brutal for some
industries that have infrequent high demand.




On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Tom Lane <tom at ecs-solar.com> wrote:

> In Florida it is not unusable to have a $700 dollar demand charge AND only
> a $165 electric useage charge . A classic example is a Church or Temple
> that has only two services a week and tremendous useage during those brief
> hourly services . For example Duke Energy's demand charge is for the
> highest 15 minutes during the monthly billing cycle . I have always
> suggested to people who come to me for help with Solar that they are better
> off using multiple time clocks on the heating and cooling units etc . Since
> they cannot use a tax credit they need a White Knight investor for Solar OR
> a battery storage system to release power during the demand period
> obviously. An big battery system and Inverter or inverters . Any ideas .
> Gator Tom
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