LOL,
Inquiring minds what to know who is foisting this new scam on people. It seems there's a new one every day lately.
Maybe it's time for me to purge all my ethics and conscience to go back into the consulting business. All I have to do is find one or two of these kinds of end users and sell them on the idea of voodoo electricity. I have seen people try to make a case that utilities are bucking and/or boosting voltage in order to increase the bills (which would also have no effect on billing either by the way), but this is the first time I have heard of this poppycock.
The closest thing I have ever seen to this is that some high-tech users negotiate what are often called "guaranteed delivery" contracts with the utilities, in which they pay premium rates in exchange for NOT being hit with disturbances and outages. Those contracts will often have "payback" clauses in which they get a discount for every "incident", be it sag, surge, outage etc. That's because if you are making microprocessors and a 3ms power glitch from a grid switch by the utility causes a wafer to get corrupted in the vapor deposition process, it might cost them $50,000 worth of chips. But in these cases, the users will already have systems installed to provide high precision power monitoring, in fact usually better than what the utility would have.
