This from one EVDL member remindign me of how bad some utilities are at progress. I removed his info since I didnt wait for permission to repost:
In Maryland it costs me $8/mo to be grid tied. His cost is more like $70/mo or more! I agree, I woiuld be buldozing a path to "off grid" designs there. -------------------------------------------------- > Actually, it's even worse than that. When I originally came up > with the $70 a month figure my wife wasn't working. Now she > volunteers at the XXXX 5 days a week. That uses about 10kwh > per day EV charging and, she has to charge mostly when the > sun isn't shining. > > The new 'Solar Customer' pricing is $50 a month for grid > connection plus about $15 a month for taxes and other fees, > plus now instead of banking power for free, I get paid > wholesale for each kWh I push and charged retail for every > kwh I pull from the grid. The difference is about 8 cents per kwh. > > So next year when this goes into effect I'll pay on average > $36 a month for banking power, plus the $65 mentioned above. > SO closer to $100 a month even though I'm net zero (well > surplus actually) on power. > > I'm building a 10kwh solar charging station to offset most > EV charging costs and then, I'm going off-grid. _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
