Keyword: electricity

Load Pricing (9/17/2002)

Peak-load pricing can lower electric bills and increase business profitability by inducing household consumers to shift their consumption from higher-rate peak period to lower-rate slack period.

Keywords: electric bill, electricity, energy, load shift, peak-load pricing, power, time-of-day pricing, time-or-use pricing, utilities, variable rates, variable-rate pricing

Windfall Profit (9/7/2005)

Unexpected market gain resulting from uncontrolled circumstances might serve as incentives to correctly allocate scarce resources.

Keywords: aluminum, California, contract, electricity, Kaiser Aluminum, opportunity cost, property rights, water, windfall profit