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From: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (mike upmalis)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Peak vs average
Message-ID: <8402@watarts.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 16:46:15 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 14 16:46:15 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Apr-85 01:15:42 EST
Reply-To: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (mike upmalis)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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The province of Ontario is serviced by Ontario Hydro, I believe one of
the largest <near the top in one of few categories> utilities in the west.
Local municipalities buy power from OH and in turn retail it to the citizens.
Ontario Hydro requires the local Hydro boards to submit an estimate of
conmsumption and peak usage, there are penalties based on not following
to these estimates.
What Peterborough (a small town in Ontario) did is supply Water heaters
to new homes that could be signalled off from the central Control
If Peterborough Hydro thought that they might go over the estimate for
peak, then they reduced the load to protect from going over...nifty huh


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Mike Upmalis	(mupmalis@watarts)<University of Waterloo>