Anyone else have Peak and off peak electricity?

[MrArmyAnt]

OGE now has off peak and peak pricing. During the day my electricity is close to 23 cents kwh from 2-7. Sometimes it can go as high as 46 cents. This is to be green and try and keep from needing to build new electric plants. However at night, the price goes down to about 5 cents kwh. Anyone else have this or taking advantage of it by switching there plasma businesses to be run more at night or early morning?

[WSS]

Is this single ph or three ph? I have a "demand" meter installed and it NEVER goes down. It is supposed to read the peak at six minutes and bills your entire month based on that six minutes of peak usage. I would love to live in your region and work nights!

WSS

[MrArmyAnt]

Just single phase

[Tensaiteki]

Originally Posted by MrArmyAnt OGE now has off peak and peak pricing. ... This is to be green and try and keep from needing to build new electric plants.

How does changing the pricing scheme make it any more environmentally friendly than it was before? Or, for that matter, prevent the need for new plants?

[Bigrhamr]

Originally Posted by Tensaiteki How does changing the pricing scheme make it any more environmentally friendly than it was before? Or, for that matter, prevent the need for new plants?

Well the thought behind that scheme is that if they can shift some of the peak load to the low demand times then existing plants won't be overtaxed at peak time.

Does it work? Who knows?

[WSS]

Originally Posted by Bigrhamr Well the thought behind that scheme is that if they can shift some of the peak load to the low demand times then existing plants won't be overtaxed at peak time. Does it work? Who knows?

That makes sense....So "Green" in this case actually means $$$!

WSS

[Weminuche]

Yikes, maybe you should move. I just signed a contract for 5.79 cents/kwh .... anytime. I'm in TX.