I would be surprised if your SPA (sold in Calif) cannot be programmed. My 20 year old one can. It's limited to 4 periods a day where new ones have more flexibility and the ability to tailor weekends etc.
You need to give the app your actual PG&E login credentials so it can log in and download the data for you. Personally, I would recommend either changing the password to a temporary one before you use the app then change it back when you're done, or just permanently change your password on the PG&E site after you're done using the app.
My boss keeps telling me to do that. I have gas pretty easily accessible to the location, but would need to look at dryer costs. I've also thought about moving to a gas oven.
Funny, I've trying to do the opposite. I want to shed my natural gas consumption so that I can replace it with offsetting PV. Water heater and dryer are decent loads, though. The tankless electric water heater we put into our pool house requires 40A on the panel. Add a Tesla charger and you're rapidly chewing up your available service.
The upside, beside cost, is that I might be able to convert my wife to an electric car in the future; we've tapped the available 125 amp load to the house and expanding is not an option (between 30 and 40K) so I was thinking about converting to gas to free about about 50 amps.
I think it's a perfectly reasonable trade-off. I alluded to it, but the service size limitations are a real problem for a lot of homeowners when it comes to EVs. I have 400A (!) service, which I upgraded from 125A. I didn't pay the numbers you're talking about, but it wasn't cheap ($7k-ish, for the record, and that was because of weird limitations on our property). Even with 400A, we have it split between two buildings on the property and 200A disappears rapidly when you try to replace all of your gas appliances.
What's your solar potential? It's a bit tricky but PG&E can probably help you here. With enough solar you could offset your load to the grid locally. Then you would just have to upgrade your panel and not your secondaries (which is where most of your costs are coming from it sounds like).The problem is that the end point is a couple of houses down the road that need to be trenched and sidewalk torn up... 30-40K is the estimate
The point of moving to gas to to allow the dryer to run during the day (which my wife insists on) and to also free up some amps for my car or another.
What's your solar potential? It's a bit tricky but PG&E can probably help you here. With enough solar you could offset your load to the grid locally. Then you would just have to upgrade your panel and not your secondaries (which is where most of your costs are coming from it sounds like).
Adding a Powerwall might make this work too so your local load can be higher than your supply load. All of this in combination is possible. You would have to work with PG&E, your local building department and a talented electrician in order to pull it off. But with $30-40k at risk you have a lot to work with.
OK. Plan 2. Powerwall but really that is not the best because 7 kWh will be eaten up in seconds with AC, dryers and the car.
