That isn't the least of it yet. Currently a lot of the gas fired peakers used for handling short duration demands have been sitting idle due to economics have made it more economical for the utilities to cycle the larger coal burners to meet these needs. As summer approaches and more people start up those power hungry air conditioning units the coal burners will be called into base load duty and no options will exist but to bring the gas burners up. The price of the kilowatt will have to be pretty high to do this. Otherwise the power companies will loose money running these machines and I don't think any business is going to purposefully do something to loose money.Originally Posted by mischevious21
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