威斯康星州电力公司是一家夏季电力公司。我们这一代人的高峰期通常发生在夏天最热的一天。峰值负荷对空调要求非常敏感。我们还被要求制定使用时间比率。使用时间比率概念在高需求期对能源成本的定价高于低需求期。费率发展表明，夏季的能源成本是当前费率的两倍以上，而夜间费率约为当前费率的1/3。这种价格将严重惩罚住宅空调客户。罚款并非完全没有道理，因为住宅空调的需求量与系统其他部分的峰值一致，且年负荷系数非常低。 然而，我们认为，必须为有空调的住宅客户提供替代方案，我们认为唯一可以做到这一点的方法是使用某种形式的存储冷却。本文介绍了为住宅设计的冰库系统，以及该系统的测试结果。这篇论文是关于这个话题的两篇论文之一。另一篇文章介绍了该系统的设计和应用。引文:研讨会，ASHRAE交易，第83卷，第一部分，伊利诺伊州芝加哥

Wisconsin Electric Power Company is a summer-peaking utility. Our generation peak normally occurs on one of the hottest days of the summer. Peak load is very sensitive to air conditioning requirements. We also have been ordered to develop time-of-use rates. The time-of-use rate concept puts a higher price on the cost of energy during high demand periods than it does during the low demand periods. Rate development indicated a cost of energy during summer days to be more than double present rates while nighttime rates would be about 1/3 of present rates. This kind of rate would heavily penalize a residential air conditioning customer. The penalty is not entirely unjustified since residential air conditioning has a demand that is coincident with the rest of the system peak and has very poor annual load factor. We feel, however, that alternatives must be available to the residential customer with air conditioning and the only way we felt this could be done was with some form of stored cooling.This paper describes an ice bank system designed for residential use as well as the results of a test of the system. This paper is one of two papers on the topic. The other paper describes the design andapplication of the system.