JEA’s latest pilot program seeks to answer one question: Can rate incentives reduce peak demand?
The energy authority will begin a randomized, 5,000-person pilot program this summer to explore if demand-based rates – rates that include surge pricing during peak hours – will change the way customers use their appliances.
The program is the result of a five-year effort and builds on a small pilot of about 150 people who opted into a program in 2017. This pilot, by contrast, is a random sample…