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Degree Day Automatic Delivery
When you open an account
with Sippin Energy, you will get Sippin Energy's state-of-the-art
automatic delivery service at no extra cost! This system tracks
your usage and forecasts when you will need a delivery, so you never
have to call, or remember to check your tank.
How does degree day automatic delivery work?
Sippin Energy utilizes several methods of Automatic delivery including
dated delivery, electronically monitored delivery, and degree day
delivery. The most common system is degree day delivery. To
understand degree day delivery, you need to have an understanding of
what degree days are. The term "Degree day" is a bit confusing because
many degree days can be recorded for one 24 hr period. So for this exercise,
let's pretend the word "day" doesn't exist. As you may assume, degree day
calculation is based on outside temperature. The calculation uses
a baseline of 65°F as a starting point. From there we take
the average temperature for the last 24 hour period, and subtract it
from 65. This is the number of degree days that accumulated
over the last 24 hours. As an example, if the average temperature
for the last 24 hours was 45°, we can compute the degree days fairly
simply:
How is that used to deliver my oil?
After arriving at the degree day, we calculate what is called a K-factor
for each customer. It's like a Mile-Per-Gallon MPG calculation you
do on an automobile, only we use degree days instead of miles.
After each delivery we re-calculate this to be used to project the next
delivery date.
For example:
If 500 hundred degree days pass, and you burn 100 gallons of fuel, you
have a K-Factor of 5, or 5 degree days per gallon.
Now that you know how it works, you
can sit back and relax!
All the calculations are done by state-of-the-art systems that are
managed by our oil delivery management personnel. What more
information? just contact our oil delivery dept at delivery@sippin.com
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