Don't have an Avalon 6 but may help your $$ savings on elec power below (esp if Midwest USA under Xcel Energy...probably applies to other elec utils call them)
Knocked my elec rate from 13.7c kwh to 9.27c kwh (this is all fees/taxes local etc..the 2500 kwh used divided into ACTUAL full monthly bill)
Seems if you are using your 'server equip' for home heating (look at the utils point of view at 225 usd more per month the last year what else could you be doing with it?) You must be using it for your primary source of heating ..ie electric..thus the FURTHER reduced winter rate (on back of Xcel bill you can look)
IF your primary mode of heat in winter is Electric Heat (which you can change back/forth with a phone call to them) instead of the 'for everybody' drop to 12.3c kwh
it will go all the way down to 9.27c kwh in my case.
here is the link and story on how I kinda walked into this
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13304401post on the thread how successful you are and with which elec utility (hopefully more then Xcel Energy) and good luck
Again in my case (mild winter) majority of heat is from elec (run the the miners first thou..space heaters they act like) ....my 3 bedroom house is well insulated ...so the
miners make up the first 62F (68F basement and 64F 2nd floor) with only Gas Furnace kicking in. I offered to take an 'inspection' (worse that could happen they come by and
have a good laugh and say 'no way' and I have the old rates) ...they never did ..just saw the 225 more in elec this year and rubber stamped it.
That is 115 buck savings a month to me for 5 months in winter on top of the $45 bucks a month in year round gas budget for heat (some of this is the mild winter) BUT
at least for this winter it is a 160 buck a month savings for me
so trying to get the word out to big asic users like this Avalon 6 thread , knc thread, GPU miners etc if you are in Winter mode...esp Midwest USA in Winter... look into this
Again how I fell into this and what to watch for *do this after hours with REGULAR customer service rep ..they 'obviously' have the power to do this or at least
tag it as such ...for the 'rubber stamp' as ok as was my case
(damn I could afford an Avalon 6 now ..and prob would ROI with above..but I think I may have missed the ROI boat with knc's btc and others big data farms gonna hit
anyway ...hope this also helps your bottom line...as per the Avalon thread here title 'winter mining' as it is
good luck