miimura
Well-Known Member
That is disappointing. Silicon Valley Clean Energy appears to do it the "right" way. If you are net surplus generator in a given month, you will the the extra credit from your GreenPrime enrollment.About a month ago I signed up for PCE's 100% renewable option. It's supposed to cost an extra penny per kWh. Now that I have the first bill, I can see how they calculate that charge. I thought perhaps they might add it to all my PCE rates. Then excess solar would be worth a penny more, and night-time charging would cost a penny more, and they'd tend to cancel each other out. But there's no free lunch.
Instead there's a separate line-item for ECO100. Apparently they apply a 1-cent rate to the net kWh consumed in each rate period. Like so:
I had net generation in the peak and part-peak periods, and net consumption in off-peak. Because of that, the ECO100 charge only seems to apply to off-peak consumption. It could be better: net all periods was only about 155-kWh. But it could also be worse, because total consumption was 654-kWh.
You can see above that my GreenPrime surcharge is applied to my total net kWh, unlike @mblakele above.