What a shame that was not the case here, buying 'green' power costs another .015kw/h ontop of the standard rate.
Chuck Bartosch wrote: > On Nov 15, 2009, at 11:47 PM, jree...@18-30chat.net wrote: > >> Oh my that is insane kw/h pricing. Happen to know what there buy back rates >> are? >> Here I pay .07 kw/h with a buy back of .02 kw/h. > > New York State requires buyback at the same rate as the sell rate. So it'd be > .07 kw/h both ways. The utilities hate it of course, but NYS's philosophy is, > you've built the grid with guaranteed returns and we need to diversify the > supply, so tough. I know they (the utilities) tried to get this changed a few > years ago but I don't think they were successful (I haven't been following it > lately so maybe it changed and I missed it). > > Chuck > >> I have thought of doing time rates, but for now I turn down p2p, etc, during >> peek times and kick it up at off peek. This worked well till the major push >> over >> to encrypted connections >> >> Tim Sylvester wrote: >>> Talking about electric billing in this thread made me think of time-of-use >>> billing and tiered billing rate schedules for electrical usage. PG&E has >>> multiple rate schedules. The standard consumer rate schedule starts at >>> $0.115 per KWh and grows to $0.44 per KWh for usage over 300% of the >>> baseline. They also have time-of-use billing schedules which start at $0.087 >>> per KWh during off-peak times in the summer and move up to $0.297 per KWh >>> during peak times. >>> >>> Has anyone considered tiered usage billing or time-of-use billing for >>> Internet access? It would be complicated to implement and also difficult to >>> explain to customers. If Bit Torrent users are the biggest consumers of >>> bandwidth on a network you could benefit by encouraging them to use the >>> network during off hours. >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -------------- > Chuck Bartosch > Clarity Connect, Inc. > 200 Pleasant Grove Road > Ithaca, NY 14850 > (607) 257-8268 > > "When the stars threw down their spears, > and water'd heaven with their tears, > Did He smile, His work to see? > Did He who made the Lamb make thee?" > >>From William Blake's Tiger!, Tiger! > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
