[Greenbuilding] Office Buildings as Peaker Plants

[Richard Garbary]

A new paradigm or an adjunct to the existing TOU paradigm:  Rates
based on total daily usage and  hourly peaks.

Examples (Off the top of my head...not fleshed out...:

Rate 1. Daily Total <10 Kwh, Maximum 1 hour peak of 1 Kwh (electric
dryers...I don't think so!)
Rate 2. Daily Total <20 Kwh, Maximum 1 hour peak of 2 Kwh
Rate 3. Daily Total <30 Kwh, Maximum 1 hour peak of 3 Kwh
And so on.


If you exceed either of the limits in a Rate, you are kicked up to the
next Rate. OUCH!

I'm sure there are many ways to slice and dice this paradigm to
encourage consumption flatness.

Here are some of my daily charts:

http://flatteningthecurve.wordpress.com/




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On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com> wrote:
> One of my professors was fond of saying that the presence of compressor-AC
> was an indication of a poorly designed building.
> The idea of remotely cycling large loads off during peak demand periods is
> of course tempting and perhaps even smart in the short run, but flattening
> our load, (working toward) eliminating peaky loads like AC could achieve
> much larger net reductions rather than shifting load around to help the
> grid.
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Richard Garbary <richard6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> An interesting read:
>>
>> http://makower.typepad.com/joel_makower/2008/05/office-building.html
>>
>
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