Please tell me what would be the beneit to tell PG&E to give me the EV rate compared to staying with the usual residential rate? 5 years ago I switched to ToU (also with PG&E) and even though I charged my EV strictly at night and also ran the clothes dryer as much as possible in Off-peak, I was hard pushed to see any benefit compared to the flat rate that I had before. At this moment I am again on normal residential flat rate (only when I charge a lot at home then I go over the baseline and pay more than that approx 10-11 cents per kWh. But with the EV rate, I hardly gain and if I ever charge during a summer day, then I pay through the nose. Why would I want to do that? The only reason to make sense of ToU is if you have a smallish solar installation and have just enough generation capacity to wipe out any peak or even most of the partial peak consumption, while not having enough solar system to offset most of your usage and you can push enough usage into the off-peak bin to get a slightly lower rate than usual.
But with the rates as proposed, I see hardly any incentive to switch while the risk of significantly higher bills is very large, or am I missing something? Maybe the baseline is higher or the rates do not climb as fast beyond (130% of) baseline? I could not read all of it, just wondering what would be the benefit... Regards, Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Danny Ames Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 12:35 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Northern California PG&E's seeks implementation Schedule EV to take effect 8/1/13 Thanks for posting the link Dave. Rate schedule: Summer Peak $.37615; Partial Peak $.20558; Off-Peak $.09790 Winter Peak $.26916; Partial Peak $.16425; Off-Peak $.10031 Peak hours: 2-9 P.M. M-F; 3-7 P.M. S-S Partial Peak: 7 A.M.-2 P.M. and 9-11 P.M. M-F. ________________________________ From: David Rees <[email protected]> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 3, 2013 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [EVDL] Northern California PG&E's seeks implementation Schedule EV to take effect 8/1/13 On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Danny Ames <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is PG&E's new proposed rate structure for EV's for us folks here in their territory in Nor Cal. > I just cut & pasted the PDF if you wish to have it let me know its 14 pages. Here's the link to the PDF: http://www.pge.com/nots/rates/tariffs/tm2/pdf/ELEC_4231-E.pdf -Dave _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130603/dcd1 4904/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
