Why cycle electric water heaters?
Two reasons! No inconvenience and maximum savings. • Because a large amount of hot water is maintained in storage, reheating the water need not occur at any specific time. Short periods without reheating cause no inconvenience. • Cycling electric water heaters provides maximum savings because they are high demand appliances and are commonly used in homes. Will I be without hot water? With a properly sized water heater, postponing the reheat cycle should never be noticed. Most heaters can provide hot water for at least four hours after power has been turned “off”. Load management periods are shorter than this and would occur only a few times each month. If you are a volunteer and you know that you will be using an unusually large volume of hot water—for example, you are going to have a house full of company—you may call our office and we will take your water heater off the cycle program for that period of time. We do not want this program to inconvenience you in any way. What does the s
