07-14-2008, 04:04 AM
Hmm, that's true about the power company charging more if you demand a lot of power at peak times. We used to set up big electrical motors with "soft starters" so they wouldn't all start up at the same time and whack the power grid enough to set off the higher priced power. I think it was if they did that once per month all the electricity for that month would be at a higher rate. It was a very significant increase. However, these were big motors, most of them were five to twenty and some were up around to around fifty horsepower electrical motors.
Kurt Wilson