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Pricing of electricity is confusing and very varried. Usually it’s business that pay the variable rates.

I worked at a power monitoring startup. We looked at states that had peak demand and tried to estimate commercial electricity bills and sent alerts if a business was close to its peak usage.

“ Some utilities will charge customers based on their individual peak demand. The highest demand during each month or even a single 15 to 30 minute period of highest use in the previous year may be used to calculate charges”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_demand

It’s hard to figure out what the charges are going to be.




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