I thought this thread died after my last post. I did switch to Georgia Power's plug-in rate. The Georgia Public Service Commission has a web page that allows you to compute what your bill would be using standard rates,
GPcalc.asp, and I have used that to determine if I have saved money. For the 12 month period after I switched, (11/18 through 10/19), my average bill under the plug-in rate was $179.59. I saved an average of $13.85 per month from the standard rate. There were only two months that my bill was higher than the standard rate, 8/19 an 10/19, each by exactly $5.44. We have not altered our power usage habits very much. Of course I only charge my car during super off-peak hours, (11PM to 7AM), and we rarely run the dishwasher before 11 PM. During the one year period we rarely ran the dryer before 11PM. While we still never run the dishwasher or dryer during peak summer hours, (2PM to 7PM), we don't wait until 11PM to dry items that we want to hang or fold before we go to bed. We keep our thermostat set at 68 in the winter and 78 in the summer. (We have ceiling fans, so they keep the 78 setting comfortable.) I'm sure the savings would be significantly more if I used my car more, but I am retired so I have no commute. We took several road trips during the period, but used Superchargers for those. (Hey, most of the Supercharging was free! Elon had turned off the billing during one of our hurricanes and just recently turned it back on. I had to pay $5.52 for my trip to Jacksonville to get my FSD chip installed.) I am using my car even less during the pandemic, so the savings are less, average savings of only $1.90 for the past 4 months. Before making this post I researched the Smart Usage plan on the Georgia Power web-site, but I am just not smart enough to figure that one out, so I am no help to
@REckard. Oh, that post was August 20
19....never mind.
