[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Power utility office

[Dimitar]

Energy and power are used quite interchangeably and power is the better 
word for it.

 > A more general issue is that often utilities provide more than one 
service.  Xcel, which operates in parts of the US, provides both 
electricity and natural gas (the latter which is technically energy 
too).  In a nearby city to where I live, the city owned utility provides 
electricity, water, sewer, and internet.

That's something which is not common in Europe. The only close such case 
is an power company (EVN) which operates power infrastructure, heating 
infrastructure and sells power in the same area but these activities are 
separated in subsidiaries. Is that the case in the US or Xcel does not 
have subsidiaries for the different economic activities?

On 18/11/2022 23:31, Mike Thompson wrote:
> Technically what the electric utility is selling is energy, not 
> power.  One gets billed for kilowatt-hours, not kilowatts.  See [0].  
> However, colloquially, the terms power and energy when it comes to 
> electric utilities are used interchangeably, although "power company" 
> seems to be favored vs. "energy company" in the US where I live.  If 
> we want to be clear, why not office=electric_utility (if that is what 
> we mean)?
>
> A more general issue is that often utilities provide more than one 
> service.  Xcel, which operates in parts of the US, provides both 
> electricity and natural gas (the latter which is technically energy 
> too).  In a nearby city to where I live, the city owned utility 
> provides electricity, water, sewer, and internet.
>
> Mike
>
>
> [0] https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Energy_vs_power
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 12:56 PM Dimitar <osm.dimitar155 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hello.
>
>     I’m
>     [proposing](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Power_utility_office)
>
>     to introduce a new tag for power utility offices
>     (office=power_utility)
>     and deprecate the existing one (office=energy_supplier). The
>     rationale
>     behind this idea is that energy_supplier can be confusing to most
>     people.
>
>
>     Please comment wherever you feel most comfortable:
>
>     * Here
>     * On the wiki talk page
>     * On the community forum
>
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