North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [Possible OT] California, and running off of generators for extended periods
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:49:00AM +0000, Matthew Kaufman put this into my mailbox: > > Of course, if we had *real* deregulation, my price for power as a commercial > user would closely reflect the utility's cost for power, and they might even > charge me differently by time of use whether or not I wanted that... then > the cost equation changes for item 1, and I'd have an incentive to go look > at the true costs of item 2. Given that, is there anyone in the San Diego Gas & Electric area (fully deregulated, passing on the generation cost to consumers -- my residential power bill was $215 for december, after the state-mandated 'price reduction') who's looked at the costs of doing this, and possibly found it cheaper to run off of the generators? Also -- again to throw something out there -- there is at least one hosting company that touts itself as running entirely off of solar. (see http://www.enn.com/features/2000/07/07262000/solarhost_14768.asp; solarhost.com is what I'm thinking of). Has any other large commercial entity looked into the economics of installing a PV array say on the roof of the building above and around the cooling packs, etc? At the very least, I would think it would be a good way to supplement a battery network. Or perhaps (going even further out there) a wind generator or two? -dalvenjah -- Dalvenjah FoxFire (aka Sven Nielsen) I once heard the voice of God. It Founder, the DALnet IRC Network said "Vrrrrrmmmmmm." Unless it was just a lawn mower. e-mail: [email protected] WWW: http://www.dal.net/~dalvenjah/ whois: SN90 Try DALnet! http://www.dal.net/
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