{"id":581923,"date":"2010-05-27T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2010-05-27T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:30:50","slug":"peak-day-pricing-begins-for-large-commercial-pge-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581923","title":{"rendered":"Peak Day Pricing Begins for Large Commercial PG&amp;E Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/05\/Night_Commute.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10318\" title=\"Night_Commute\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/05\/Night_Commute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn a program designed to reduce California&#8217;s peak afternoon grid demand, the CPUC this month moved about 2,000 PG&amp;E customers &#8211; large commercial power users with a demand over 200 KW &#8211; to a new pricing structure that charges more in summer afternoon hours, and less in off-peak hours.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s peak summer demand forecast is expected to be 47,139  megawatts, lower than the 50,270  megawatts of four years ago. Rooftop solar already produces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=al-gore-electranet-begins-in-califo-2010-02\" >over 2.5% <\/a>of California&#8217;s sunny   afternoon electrons for the grid, which has reduced the peak summer afternoon  demand  over the last   few years.<\/p>\n<p>The change will provide an incentive for hotel chains, large manufacturers, school districts, hospitals and some office buildings to consider the many available alternatives that would move their power demand to off peak times.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples include  using <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/27\/2010\/05\/22\/53-megawatt-ice-energy-storage-trial-begins-in-california\/\">night  power to supply daytime air conditioning<\/a> or adding solar that typically produces the most power during peak times, thus  offsetting their peak load.<\/p>\n<p>This policy greatly improves the <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/27\/2010\/03\/16\/most-businesses-that-have-invested-in-renewable-energy-plan-to-add-more\/\"> already good economics<\/a> now for solar for commercial users, whether  investing in their own solar system, or simply contracting for the solar  power itself, using a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a company  that builds a solar system for them. Most companies that have added  renewable energy <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/27\/2010\/03\/16\/most-businesses-that-have-invested-in-renewable-energy-plan-to-add-more\/\">have   saved money.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/27\/peak-day-pricing-begins-for-large-commercial-pge-customers\/#more-10300\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a program designed to reduce California&#8217;s peak afternoon grid demand, the CPUC this month moved about 2,000 PG&amp;E customers &#8211; large commercial power users with a demand over 200 KW &#8211; to a new pricing structure that charges more in summer afternoon hours, and less in off-peak hours. The state&#8217;s peak summer demand forecast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}