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Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Cheapo UPS?

"US electric utilities are starting to move residential customers onto Time Of Use billing"

Time of use billing is almost _always_ coupled with a network charge as well.

Here in the UK, my domestic network charge is higher than the energy charges.

Once people start ramping usage around to avoid peak charges you can expect the network charges to go up.

The same will apply to all those home solar panels or wind scams. People think they can make the meters run backwards but they forget there are a bunch of minimum charges built in that can't be undone.

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