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Ev Archive for December 1997
1191 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:41:16 2001

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Re: Who's in Charge of EV Charging?



On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, LEE A HART wrote:

> Chip Gribben wrote:
> >Who's in Charge of EV Charging? It's the utilities.
>
> No; for some reason they seem to be playing no significant part. If they
> were, they would be promoting slower night-time charging for enhanced load
> levelling. (Exactly what most of us hobbiests are doing right now, anyway).

Absolutely! Off-peak power sales are like free money to most utilities. My
own utility would look on such sales as a means of offsetting costs to
keep rates stable and it's public owner/ratepayers happy.

John

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