Bob really doesn't like the NET meter plan that our local utility uses. It turns out that it works great for us. Our home is Passive House-certified (https://www.phius.org). We can cool or heat it only during the day (or the night) and it maintains its temperature very, very well. Two very efficient (23 SEER) 12k BTU mini-splits handle the heating & cooling loads. Usually only one is needed to heat or cool the entire 3700 ft2 house.
It's an all-electric home - no oil, no natural gas, no propane. Depending on how much of an on-peak surplus we're running, we shift around our heavy appliance usage - ovens, clothes washing and drying (both are high efficiency units), and Chevy Volt charging. As a result, our electrical usage is pretty minimal and our cost of energy is exceedingly low. For example, Our entire power bill for the month of May/June was $17.31. $13.94 of that was the monthly service charge. The balance of $3.37 was off-peak usage. We banked another 321 kWhr of on-peak power, for a total surplus so far this year (since March) of 756 kWhr. Our on-peak surplus is growing a bit so we'll start shifting more of our cooking/baking, laundry, and Volt charging to the on-peak hours. It works for us, and we're pretty much at net-zero. The utility's monthly charge of $13.94 for the grid connection and its power storage function seems like it's worth it. Len Moskowitz ----- > On July 18, 2019 at 10:17 AM Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
