Keyword: variable-rate pricing

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