Do You Know - or Care - How Much Electricity You Use?

I'll jump in here. We just signed up in NY for the Empire plan at work. Currently our demand rate is costing us $15.96/KWh, signing up on the Empire plan in NY will drop to $1.98/KWh plus other drops in charges. The kicker is, we need to use 25% more power than we use now. Which in my situation is OK due to the North building won't go on line for a few more months and we will exceed 37% more KWh's than we do now. So where is the actual requirements of saving power? Granted, all my motors above 1 HP are on VFD's, all others are on SMC's, all lighting is T5HO, and I am doing all I can to do to save power since I am limited to 3200 Amps from the Power Company in total unless we install a substation and for our next expansion, (starts in spring) this will be 150% larger than we have now out front. I am pressuring the power company now as if they can deliver the power or of we have to go Co-Gen as we can utilize the heat also. Waiting on them for their answers. We can not do the 2 years it will take to do the substation deal or the expense. So my questions also remains with them as to how can we save energy/money? We operate 24/7/365 and can not be out of power for more than 15 mins or we have deaths. Currently we are paying $38,000.00/Month for electric, I don't even want to say how much our heating is... We've looked at Solar, Wind, Geothermal and Other. None give us 100% power requirements 24/7/365 except Co-Gen and ETP. Our CA plant yes, we can use both Solar and Wind and will utilize both and also Geo and possibly Co-gen as this plant will be 7 acres in size. We are working with the power company now on this and all the incentives they are offering. We still need back up generation, we can not be out of power for more than 15 mins.

Leads me back to Who is wanting Businesses to save power? Or is all of this just bunch of BS for the home owners to deal with and suffer the black/Brown outs?

It's tough to care when this week we find out here in Canada that we actually paid the US millions of dollars to take our overproduced electricity on New Years Day because there was no way we could use it all. First they tell you to conserve then they piss away all the profits and we as the user still pay through the nose !!!!