What you are referring to is called demand charges. You get a surcharge for peak load. When I worked in LA we monitored that in large facilities I worked at. If we started large chillers and ran up a large demand at once you are charged a demand fee that you pay for. The demand fee stays on the bill for 11 months until you reach a higher demand then falls back to the next highest demand from previous months. If you rack up a large demand charge in the summer you pay for it all year. We would shed our loads to keep the demand charge lower.
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