Here is one NET meter rate plan someone sent to me. This plan sounds like it would be a real screw-me utility rate plan for me I think. (If I understand it correctly)
> In northern NJ, PSE&G offers a choice between fixed rate or time-of-day > (Residential Load Management - RLM) metering. > We have RLM. It uses a single meter for both usage and generation, on-peak > and off-peak. > There's a $13.94 monthly service charge. > On-peak is 7 AM to 9 PM (EST) M-F. Off-peak is the rest of the week. > Summer: On-peak we pay $0.31 per kWhr. Off-peak we pay $0.08 > Winter: On-peak we pay $0.24. Off-peak we pay $0.086 * But Overgeneration on-peak can only offset on-peak usage and * only off-peak (nighttime) generation can offset night usage! > and all that overgeneration on-peak gets credited at the end of the year > at only around $0.03 per kWhr. Wow, this really sounds bad for my house anyway. I generate ALL my solar during those ON PEAK hours and use very little if any till I get home. AC is not on till evening. And don’t generate ANY at night (off peak) when they wont let you apply any of your huge daytime generation to your nighttime loads. Wow BUT, I guess, if you come home at 6 PM and then run MAX AC, or max heat in winter, Charge your EV at high rate, and cook, then maybe by 9 PM you can have used p a lot of your day's generation. I guess one can pre-cool the house while no one is home and try to cram in all one's high usage before 9 PM. But if you mis-calculate, then you are burning up 31 cent kWh when waiting will get you 8 cent kWh. I guess cloudy days is OK, because you might use AC on peak and absorb some of your prior on-peak generation. Seems like the net effect is that one only gets 3 cents for what they over generate for what they charge 30 cents for.. Wow The thing about solar is that during 6 hours of the day, you have to bank up for the other 18 hours of the day. And for cloudy days. Sounds like the utilities have really come up with a doozey to screw consumers out of their overproduction when the utility actually should be paying the most for it. Sounds like this would need a real-time daily display and real time homeowner management every day to not get screwed. Somehow you have to use up your overproduction only during the day, and avoide the STEEP 4X penalty (32 vs 8 cent) penalty if you happen to over use what you banked. But if you under use it, then they screw you by only giing you 10% of its value. Wow. Right now, no one is home and there is no way to burn up electricity during the day. But maybe when I retire, and will have the AC unit on in the summer and wont turn back the heat so much in the winter, I could make it work. But then spring and summer when there simply are no heating or cooling then all that solar (worth 30 cents per kWh) is being banked up for only 3 cents return later. Wow I would think net metering at fixed rate would be better here. Then your daytime generation can apply equally to nighttime use. Or I am missing something.... Bob _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
