By Tina Gamez | DAILY NEWS-SUN
APS residential customers who come home from work around 4 or 5 p.m. on a weekday, flick on the lights, turn down the thermostat on the air conditioner, start dinner and turn on the television may have to restructure their routine if the Arizona Corporation Commission were to approve the utility’s rate case that will be filed on June 1 to get mandatory demand charges from its users.
The mandatory demand charge program will give APS residential customers an “opportunity” to change how they use their appliances said Ted Geisler, APS director of finance.
The current APS demand charge program is voluntary and the utility would like to make it mandatory Geisler added, because it’s the “most popular program” they have to offer with 120,000 out of their one million customers using it.
