PG&E NBCs and Minimum Billable Charges

[sorka]

Are NBCs stacked on MBCs?

For example, if I'm a net energy producer but incur NBCs of say $5 for the month, is my monthly bill $10 or $15?

If it's $10, and the MBC masks the NBCs, then I would essentially have about 500 kWh of NBCs I can incur before it exceeds the $10 MBC.

 

[sorka]

Anybody? Seems mine this should be an easy answer.

 

[getakey]

NBCs are on top of MBCs

 

[sorka]

So if I had only

NBCs are on top of MBCs

So energy use of more than $10 masks the $10 MBC but $10 of NBCs don't?

 

[getakey]

So if I had only


So energy use of more than $10 masks the $10 MBC but $10 of NBCs don't?

not sure I understand that question. I see line item charges for both MBC and NBC on my monthly bill

 

[sorka]

My question is do NBCs count towards the MBC? i.e. if you have total NBC charges of $10 and no other billable charges, is your bill $10 or $20?

 

[getakey]

NBCs do not count towards MBC. Bill would be $20

 

[BrettS]

It sounds like you’re trying to find a way to bypass the non bypassable charges

 

[sorka]

It sounds like you’re trying to find a way to bypass the non bypassable charges

No, just MBCs.

 

[Redhill_qik]

No, just MBCs.

Not a MBC, but a DMBA, Delivery Minimum Bill Amount The NBCs, Non-Bypassable Charges, are to maintain funding for 4 programs, Public Purpose Program, Nuclear Decommissioning Charge, Competition Transition Charge and Department of Water Resources Bond.

 

[miimura]

Minimum Charges are paid on the Blue bill every month regardless. Any positive energy charges in a particular month, up to the Minimum, will be deducted from the True-Up total just before it is billed and payable on the Blue bill.

I am still on NEM 1.0 so I don't pay NBCs, so I can't speak to how they are billed.

 

[RKCRLR]

Here's the data from my true-up:

It appears the MDCs (paid monthly) are subtracted from the NBCs.

 

[getakey]

Here's the data from my true-up:
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It appears the MDCs (paid monthly) are subtracted from the NBCs.

What does your monthly bill look like?

 

[getakey]

ok, just looked at one my monthly bills. The NBCs are part of the NEM true-up charges. The MDCs are billed monthly.
So the NBCs are still added separate from MDCs, but not paid monthly.

So for OP, you would get $10/month bill, but 12x$10 = $120 would be on your NEM as a positive amount

 

[RKCRLR]

It appears that the California Climate Credit (~$70/year in my case) partially offsets the MDCs. So, in theory, it appears I could have an annual cost of ~$50 for electricity. This assumes that my NBCs = my MDCs and no surplus generation thus making my true-up bill $0.