ABSTRACT
An average electric rate is a handy number for energy budgeting. Dissecting it may reveal options for reducing costs to the people facility. They will instead focus on retail tariffs impacting customers that actually use the energy. Many large customers use energy consultants to help them navigate regulatory maze, and to find options for cutting pricing via alternative rates, altering their usage patterns, and special discounts. Investor-Owned Utilities may also be resistant to negotiating options unless they are subsidized. Rules are still being written, and re-written, such that some supply pricing options may appear, change, or disappear over time. Delivery of energy and capacity involves building and maintaining power lines, boosting and reducing voltage with transformers, ensuring consistent voltage and alternating current wave forms, metering and billing, etc. While many utilities break down charges for those services in their tariffs, some still do not.
