Machinery_E
Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 19, 2004
- Location
- Ohio, USA
I've been doing some pretty serious research into demand charges and how they are billed. Very confused at this point, so I'd really appreciate any insight!
First, what would be a typical cost of the demand charge PER KW? I understand this various with what level service you have, but would love to know a ball park price. If I understand the tariff correctly, its $4.16 per KW...so if you have a 40KW demand, you'd be looking at $4.16 times 40 correct?
https://www.aepohio.com/global/util...ffs/Ohio/2012-01-01_CSP_OP_StandardTariff.pdf
(Its Schedule GS-2)
I've came across some interesting energy audits of local plants, but they unfortunately bury the demand charges into the KWH.
The next thing is the meter, I have the following one-
http://www.geindustrial.com/publibr...TNR=Installation and Instruction|GEH-7278|PDF
Its amazing how many different ways it can be programmed! From what I understand I have a 30 min. window before the meter registers the demand charge increase...so is it valid thinking that you can run a 40 KW load for 29 min, then switch it off for say two, then switch it back on for another 29 min?
I thought I saw somewhere that the meter can be programmed to catch that if so many cycles are exceeded...but at this point I need to let me head cool down!
Thanks for any input!
First, what would be a typical cost of the demand charge PER KW? I understand this various with what level service you have, but would love to know a ball park price. If I understand the tariff correctly, its $4.16 per KW...so if you have a 40KW demand, you'd be looking at $4.16 times 40 correct?
https://www.aepohio.com/global/util...ffs/Ohio/2012-01-01_CSP_OP_StandardTariff.pdf
(Its Schedule GS-2)
I've came across some interesting energy audits of local plants, but they unfortunately bury the demand charges into the KWH.
The next thing is the meter, I have the following one-
http://www.geindustrial.com/publibr...TNR=Installation and Instruction|GEH-7278|PDF
Its amazing how many different ways it can be programmed! From what I understand I have a 30 min. window before the meter registers the demand charge increase...so is it valid thinking that you can run a 40 KW load for 29 min, then switch it off for say two, then switch it back on for another 29 min?
I thought I saw somewhere that the meter can be programmed to catch that if so many cycles are exceeded...but at this point I need to let me head cool down!
Thanks for any input!