Re: Dark Side of Hybrid Vehicles

Elle <elle_navorski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <dold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

>> Does PG&E promote time-of-use metering for some other reason?

> I was thinking you were getting at time-of-use metering designed to
> preclude, say, brownouts in summer.

Same idea. We don't want to add generating capacity on an already hot day,
which in turn generates a little more daytime heat. (Tokyo supposedly has
a higher core city temperature and humidity because of the air conditioner
exhaust that results in measurably higher usage of air conditioning.)

The summer rates are .29 day and .086 night. I classify anything that PG&E
does to be for economic reasons, but in addition to that, I can see benefit
from spreading the load, and use the PG&E numbers as a guide to how
worthwhile they think it is to spread the load. The winter numbers are .11
and .089.

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