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How will Time-of-Use pricing help reduce peak electricity demand?

April 26, 2017DEMAND electricity help peak pricing reduce time-of-use

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How will Time-of-Use pricing help reduce peak electricity demand?

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When we are all using a lot of electricity at the same time, we create “peak demand” periods. Time-of-Use pricing is designed to encourage Ontarians to shift some of their peak demand electricity usage to cheaper mid-peak or off-peak times in order to smooth out peak demand periods.