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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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e of the di-versitv factor (usu-ally about 1.3) forthe system, but therates for the class,town or tlistrictshould be deter-mined by the meth-od here used. (Seerig. 2 for calcula- .tions.) It is believedbusiness will de-velop most natur-ally if energy anddemand charges aredivided as nearlyas possible in re- sponse to natural normal costs, and thatthe business of the various classes willdevelop most naturally if each class ismade to bear its fair share of costs, hav-ing due regard for the fact that as a mat-ter of policy it sliould be rememberedthat the low class power business pro-motes industrial and agricultural activityand tends to build up a stable and pros-perous community. Energy charges should only includethose items tliat increase the cost to thecompany as kilowatt-hours are increased.Clearly for a water-power plant depend-ing on the natural flow of the stream,all charges are fixed and are demandcharges. For a steam plant energy chargesare those charges that go to purchase fuel
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