Subject: Re: using motor as a generator

From: Paul Pierce <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 07:54:03 -0700

Glenn S. Lyford wrote:
> 
> >>[email-masked] wrote:
> >>
> >>>In my neck of the woods (Peekskill, NY, USA) the power company has
> >>>a policy which involves a "peak demand meter."
> >>.......
> I've actually heard of this before in another setting...  a manager
> at a store for which I used work had us switch the lights on
> half the store at a time, about a half an hour apart, just so the
> spike of all the lights coming on at once wouldn't drive his bill
> up...
> 
> You can take that as a comment on the structure of commercial electric
> rates, or the nature of managers, take your pick.
>                                                    --Glenn

Smart manager.....

The power co. uses this to determine how much power must be available.
The peak demand is often set for a 15 or 30 minute interval.

-- 
Paul in AJ AZ  NRA Endowment Member

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