Yes, we have demand data from the larger, existing customers. However, we do not have that data available for smaller customers. Along with the demand data, we have the power factor data. I teach our engineers to do just that for their load calculations. This works well for chains of all kinds from restaurants to hardware stores, from department stores to sporting goods stores. We will share this data with electrical contractors after we sanitize it (we have to remove the customer's name, account number, address, etc. and then we have to provide the approximated size, type of usage, etc. so the EC will have useful data.
What is interesting about power factor is that we charge for poor power factor (over 85%) and we give a credit for improving power factor over 85%. Most customers do not want to be charged for the poor power factor but are not willing to correct past 85% to get the credit. I fail to see the difference, they are both cash.
