Abstract

Your home and the office building down the street both run on electricity from the same utility, but they don’t typically use it in the same way at the same time. When a homeowner calls about dimming lights, or a factory reports equipment tripping for no apparent reason, the cause isn’t always inside the building. Sometimes it comes down to the mix of customers sharing the same electrical circuit — who they are, what they’re running, and when they’re running it. That mix is called load diversity, and it has a direct effect on whether the power reaching your wall outlet is clean and steady or plagued by flickering lights and equipment problems.