hallways electric bill: anyone deal with BS "demand" charges?

[Johann Jells]

I've immersed myself in the bills for the commercial rate meters serving the hallways and basements of my buildings. PSEG uses some voodoo nonsense to calculate peak demand from the non-demand meter readings. They take the average of the peak 4 months of usage and simply move he decimal 2 places to arrive at demand (the peak current draw in kW). So if my usage is 300 kWh, they decide my peak demand is 3.0 kW. Which is utter nonsense. It's like giving you a speeding ticket by looking at your odometer and saying you must have gone 100mph sometime in those 10k miles!

The PSEG rep I spoke to said if I insisted on an actual demand meter for a small account I'd end up paying even more! Anyone dealt with this nonsense or do we all just bend over?