Avoiding Peak Demand Charges
Avoiding Peak Demand Charges
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Does anyone have experience in avoiding peak demand charges??-I am working with a large church and their peak demand(elec) costs are over $3k month for a 100,000 sq.ft. facility.
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Does anyone have experience in avoiding peak demand charges??-I am working with a large church and their peak demand(elec) costs are over $3k month for a 100,000 sq.ft. facility.
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RE: Avoiding Peak Demand Charges
Best bet is to get them onto a rate structure that does not include demand charges. Utility companies are usually willing to do this for churches, since the peak demand of a church is not coiencident with the times of max generation capacity.
RE: Avoiding Peak Demand Charges
If the facility is large enough, you can look into chilled water storage systems, but it has to be a large facility for something like that to pay.
RE: Avoiding Peak Demand Charges
RE: Avoiding Peak Demand Charges
I would start with Mints suggestion first.
RE: Avoiding Peak Demand Charges
I use delay relays in the thermostatic controls that would delay the startups when power was restored. You could use the staggered starts as suggested above to accomplish the essentially the same thing.
I would still go after the power company for the better rate.
It worked quite well, after about three months the power company changed out the meter.