Edison Electric Institute Tries to Rebrand Demand Charges

This week a joint report of the Energy and Policy Institute and the Center for Media and Democracy says utilities are trying to rebrand “demand charges”, which charge solar customers rates based on their highest consumption time (often a 15-minute or hour-long interval out of an entire month’s worth of consumption), to “efficiency rates” to slip them past public utilities regulators who have rejected “demand charges” in the past.