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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org
[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Peter Kidd<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>A TOU tariff is only an incentive. To the extent it is successful,
and success may just mean fewer distribution system failures, it is a benefit
to the utility, but it does not actually change a utility's liability for a
peak that is still possible, when people can sip their $4 latte, er, still use
"peak" hot water.<BR><SPAN class=781382923-01012012><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=781382923-01012012><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>God,
am I reading this on a green building forum?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=781382923-01012012><SPAN class=781382923-01012012><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It's not just a benefit to the utility, it's a
benefit to the consumer. Further, that sort of tariff was always a benefit to
the national infrastructure and is now clearly a benefit to the entire
planet. That is why I can't understand why those slack-arsed laggards
who didn't have it seventy years ago, still don't have it now. And, while
it doesn't change a utility's liabilities, it makes a hell of a difference to
the utility's ability to meet them.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR>Utility controlled load
shedding (intentional), turning off customers' hot water tanks for example, is
an alternative utility strategy. <SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=781382923-01012012><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
suppose it could be just an alternative, but I have never heard of that and it
sounds like possibe grounds for insurrection. The usual deal is that the
supplier's control of the consumer's tank is an integral part of the off-peak
rates deal. And I guess that is why, in Australia at least, smal tanks were
excluded.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Nick Pyner<BR><BR>Dee Why NSW
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