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Power out in East Bay, Pleasanton
- Thread starter jboy210
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BTW PG&E is providing ya'll a list of tips to help avoid high costs on your power bills while it's so hot outside.
eastcountytoday.net
PG&E Offers Energy Saving Tips to Reduce Impact of Hot Weather on Power Bills
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) encourages customers to take steps to conserve energy to avoid bill surprises as the mercury rises.
eastcountytoday.net
- Raise the thermostat and turn it up or off when leaving.
- Install a smart thermostat
- Check your air filters
- Replace Inefficient Appliances and Electronics
- Sign up for CARE/FERA
nwdiver
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I dunno... I found putting solar on my roof to be A LOT easier than being poor...
Nah, PG&E can't condone your demand reduction because then there aren't enough people to pay for fixed costs. Solar hurts PG&E's message that current NEM is bad public policy. So they'd rather you reduce demand with expensive new appliances instead of reducing demand with solar.
But they can condone shifting costs from CARE to Non-CARE because that's good public policy in their eyes.
Wow a ton of outages in Pleasant Hill, Moraga, Pleasanton, and Walnut Creek right now. Hope you all didn’t VPP then not have backup power.
Power out at my place near Pleasant Hill. Can confirm. Powerwalls at 80% and a little solar still. Thank goodness for them. The weather station in the back yard is reading 109F!
Didn’t even notice it go out. It was seamless because the batteries were charging it.
Didn’t even notice it go out. It was seamless because the batteries were charging it.
This has been my concern with VPP, no one expects a rolling black out or PSPS, but they just happen and by the time 6-7pm rolls around, my batteries would be drained if I participated. I guess I could just set a high reserve, but then, what's the point? In this heat, I can't really easily get through to 9pm actually with the A/Cs cranked up. I guess I would miss power if batteries were drained more than the $$ from VPP.
Power came back up for me an hour ago (near Pleasant Hill). The Powerwalls and solar did a great job. The AC was cranking and pretty much everything was normal. The weird thing is that the PGE outage text came before the Tesla app reported it. If nothing notified me I would have had no idea the grid had gone down.
