Who , from central Virginia, can tell me the best Dominion Resources' residential service plan to use. I have the 85 KW battery.
You can install our site as a web app on your iOS device by utilizing the Add to Home Screen feature in Safari. Please see this thread for more details on this.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Who , from central Virginia, can tell me the best Dominion Resources' residential service plan to use. I have the 85 KW battery.
I have used the whole house meter for a couple of years now. We like it, enjoy the 6.5 cents for overnight charging, and have adapted somewhat to moving Electric drying and other things to off hours. You have to decide if you like that, including afternoon peaks.
It helps if you have smart appliances that allow scheduling
My experience was a little different. We went with the whole house plan instead of adding a second meter for just the Tesla. With summer usage we were able to program our thermostat to precool the house during less expensive times and let it run a bit warmer during the peak. With the switch, our electric bill basically stayed about the same as it was before we had the Tesla meaning despite consuming substantially more total energy, we shifted our time of use enough to offset the cost.
Then we decided to install solar panels...
We have had our solar system for about 5 months. Unfortunately, Dominion does not allow any of the EV plans to be used with "net metering" (which is what allows you to sell your excess solar back to the power company when you generate more than you consume). They removed our special whole house plan meter and replaced it with one that can do net metering for solar. We had to switch back to either their regular rate schedule or the "Schedule 1S" which is a very complex and less favorable time of use plan. Basically we had to choose between good EV plan rates but giving our excess solar electricity to Dominion for free or standard rates and getting credit for excess solar generation. The net so far is despite spending a sizable amount of money on our solar system, we have not seen any change in our electric bill in terms of what we spend per month. The 1S plan may be better for summer when peak rates are more in sync with peak solar generation but we'll see. I guess the number of people in Virginia with an EV and solar panels is pretty low so they don't have a good plan for this scenario.
No loss here. Probably they discontinued it because nobody enrolled because it didn't make sense unless you drove a lot and rarely needed to charge during day, including weekends.Looks like you should stick with net metering; enrollment in the EV plans closed on September 1, 2016. :-(
Plug-in Electric Vehicles
When I enrolled 3 years ago it was a cusp period for Dominion; their initial program was under review and they anticipated bringing it back. 3 years ago in the EV market I can understand that.Looks like you should stick with net metering; enrollment in the EV plans closed on September 1, 2016. :-(
Plug-in Electric Vehicles
There's no free lunch. The peak rates are near usury and unless you're going to commit to moving most of your usage to off or near-off peak others have commented that there is hardly any net benefit.So, I didn't get in on the Dominion EV charging plan before Sept 1. Am I just hosed? It doesn't seem like they do any sort of off-peak plans at the moment.