Meralco time of use program

[userfriendly]

May gumamit ba ng program na ito? Effective ba in saving money? For those who are not familiar with it, its basically a scheme where Meralco charges you lower rates for night time (off peak) use of electrcity. Peak time is higher than the normal Meralco rate.

I'm tempted to try t but am not sure if it will help me save.

Here a link explaining it. http://www.meralco.com.ph/consumerca...esprogram.html

[bmacavanza]

effective eto if you will use airconditioning, ironing, and washing machine, during off peak.

[userfriendly]

Naka time of use ka ba? If yes how big are the savings?

[Ginnova]

ok san ito kung walang bayad ang convertion ng meter

[userfriendly]

Reviving this thread. I applied for meralco time of use. Downloaded the application form and brought it to the nearest Meralco branch. I asked them to apply 6 months zero interest for the meter. I'm paying about 557 pesos a month for 6 months for the meter.

After a month of use, my generation charge went down from 49.7% to 41.8%. Electrical consumption in kwh is still the same. Without changing our usage habits, 63.08% of our use is off peak and 36.92% is during peak. The only significant change is, we told the maids to do most of the laundry on Sundays. Come to think of it maybe we should tell them to iron on sundays.

Even with the meter charge, my monthly ave electric bill went down by around 700 pesos. If I'll disregard the 557 peso meter charge, I would save around 1250 pesos.

[Retz]

Pwede ito sa mga call centers or gumagamit ng ice thermal ni dunham bush.

[Boy Bastos]

http://www.meralco.com.ph/consumerca...esprogram.html

Page does not exist.

Same as cheap Philippines Electric Rates. It does not exist. :D

[shadow]

CVT feedbaack Kung malaki nabawas sa Meralco mo ha.

Paano mga pala if Ang off peak eh start ng 9pm to 6 am then I turn on a/c at 7pm so two hours Lang ma charge ng peak and the rest off peak rate na?

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[userfriendly]

CVT feedbaack Kung malaki nabawas sa Meralco mo ha.

Paano mga pala if Ang off peak eh start ng 9pm to 6 am then I turn on a/c at 7pm so two hours Lang ma charge ng peak and the rest off peak rate na?

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Yes. The meter has seperate readings for peak and off peak. Your bill will also show your peak and off peak usage.

[CVT]

CVT feedbaack Kung malaki nabawas sa Meralco mo ha.

Paano mga pala if Ang off peak eh start ng 9pm to 6 am then I turn on a/c at 7pm so two hours Lang ma charge ng peak and the rest off peak rate na?

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Off peak ay 9pm to 8am Mon to Sat, bro...

Yes, kung buksan mo AC ng 7pM (sa amin 6pm lang bukas na... hahaha!), peak rate ang charge sa iyo hanggang 9pm. And then off peak rate na starting 9pm......... up to 8am... Pero take note, super malakas ang konsumo mo for the first hour ng aircon dahil pinapalamig niya ang kuwarto... and then maintenance na lang ng temperature...

Walandyo,- ginawa mo naman akong guinea pig... Dive na tayo rito...

Thinking aloud: If I can save P500 a month in electric bills,- then ROI(vs. bayad ng meter et al) is about 6 months....

17.1K:chop:

[CVT]

I am starting with KW-Hr data gathering on this.

First pass, after monitoring for a few days,- without changing our consumption schedule/habit,- it is 61%non-peak; 39%peak for us.

Trying to get some numbers if we're able to save with this consumption schedule.

17.2K:type:

[CVT]

Bros.,- I am done with my one-month data gathering activities and the data shows that my peak hour consumption is 28% and my non-peak hour consumption is 72% of my total KW-Hr number (and it is given that my electric consumption is > 500KW-Hr a month).

Now, can somebody be kind enough to assist me with my approximate savings per month,- say,- I am consuming about 700KW-Hr of electricity (in a month)? Or, point me to a website or telephone number/customer service who can guide me in doing the math, please?

I just want to understand how the computation is actually done by MERALCO and it follows,>>> to compute my ROI.....

TIA.

17.5K:bruce_lee:

[JohnM]

IMO the computation is as simple as getting your on and off peak consumption and applying the rates to them.

For simplicity let's say your daily consumption is 24 kwh (1 kwh per hour)
24 * 30% * peak rate = peak amount
24 * 70% * off peak rate = off peak amount
peak + off peak = total amount per day

Additional taxes and surcharges will be based on the rates applied to the initial computation. Since Meralco de-bundled their charges it's actually easier to see where each and every amount is coming from.

It's a way of managing when people use electricity. On peak sabay-sabay ang computer at aircon sa office, makina sa factories, MRT and LRT, etc so kung medyo tagilid na ang power supply natin may chance na mag-rotating brownouts. If they can somehow "encourage" people to move their other power-consuming activities to off-peak hours ma-lessen ang demand ng kuryente during peak hours. Matagal na actually sa ibang bansa neto. The application I'm working on already had TOU more than 10 years ago