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Here's the rate sheet for Norway's utilities:Electricity costs about $0.17 per kWh for home use (Consumers Power) in lower Penisula. I’m not sure how much more it is in the UP. Lots more grid costs and fewer people to pay for it. So likely higher cost for home usage.
Here's the rate sheet for Norway's utilities:
Residential:
Service Charge: $13.00/moCommercial (<=40 kW peak demand) and Public Utility:
Energy: $0.1329/kWh
Cost Adjustment: -$0.01 to $0.02 per kWh
Service Charge: $35.00/moCommercial and Industrial (>40 kW peak demand):
Energy: $0.1329/kWh
Cost Adjustment: -$0.01 to $0.02 per kWh
Service Charge: $80.85/moI'm not sure what the Energy Optimization Plan Surcharge is or how it is applied.
Distribution Demand: $1.25
Either:
Demand Charge: $10.00Or:
Energy: $0.0946/kWh
Energy (Limiter): $0.1610/kWhCost Adjustment: -$0.01 to $0.02 per kWh
UPPCO, who serves Houghton, Marquette, and Esky, looks a little bit cheaper.
I do not but that's probably not a bad assumption since that's how my local energy COOP, IREA, in Colorado works and I found two other city power companies that purchase power from WPPI like Norway, Preston, Iowa and Jefferson, Wisconsin that both have the demand charge as per kW.I presume distribution demand is $1.25 per kW, so a 62.5 kW charger would incur $78.125 per month in demand fees, assuming the station was used at full power at least once during the month. Do you know if that’s the case?
The PCAC is what I labeled as cost adjustment.For each month, the customer shall be billed the lesser of 1) the amount of the Energy Limiter or 2) the amount for the Energy Charge plus the amount for the Demand Charge. This provision does not affect the billing of the customer charger, distribution demand charge and the PCAC, which are billed each month.
I'm not sure what the "Distribution Demand" is. It could be a flat fee monthly or a fee per kW of the total electrical service sizing, but it looks like it's not connected to usage. The "Demand Charge" for usage is $10/kW, so a single 62.5kW charging session would incur $625 in demand fees + whatever volumetric (kWh) usage fees were incurred for the month.I presume distribution demand is $1.25 per kW, so a 62.5 kW charger would incur $78.125 per month in demand fees, assuming the station was used at full power at least once during the month. Do you know if that’s the case?
Getting back to Escanaba, it looks like both Escanaba and Gladstone have municipal power, so either would be a good candidate for an EGLE grant. Gladstone's Downtown Development Agency has had some recent discussion of putting-in either L2 or L3:
Gladstone looks at electric car chargers
From a travel perspective, there are few driving routes through Escanaba that don't also pass through Gladstone.
Gladstone is 116/140 miles between Howard and Mackinaw, vs 108/148 for Esky, so Gladstone would be better there.
For travel to Marquette or Munising, Escanaba is better.
Assuming that Tesla builds an SC in Escanaba before 2030, maybe having a pair of 62.5kw's in Gladstone would give an alternative for people heading east.
Getting back to Escanaba, it looks like both Escanaba and Gladstone have municipal power, so either would be a good candidate for an EGLE grant. Gladstone's Downtown Development Agency has had some recent discussion of putting-in either L2 or L3:
Gladstone looks at electric car chargers
From a travel perspective, there are few driving routes through Escanaba that don't also pass through Gladstone.
Gladstone is 116/140 miles between Howard and Mackinaw, vs 108/148 for Esky, so Gladstone would be better there.
For travel to Marquette or Munising, Escanaba is better.
Assuming that Tesla builds an SC in Escanaba before 2030, maybe having a pair of 62.5kw's in Gladstone would give an alternative for people heading east.
I've had more cases than I'd care to think about where I've arrived at a single non-Tesla DCFC only to find it inoperable.
I'm thinking places like Ironwood, Houghton, or maybe even Crystal Falls... Perhaps the power providers there make that more difficult.
Thanks for the report. I keep hoping to hear of some sign of progress in any of the scheduled U.P. Locations. None yet.I drove through the Escanaba Meijer's parking lot yesterday. No sign of any construction yet... Hopefully it'll start soon if it's supposed to be open in Q3-21.
@MMiller may not know the Escanaba wishful thinking with Tesla pushing the Superchargers into “next year”. In which case in 2021, it is now year Six of the countdown..Ok, Is it time in 2020 to pray for Superchargers this year in Esky? Or is it realistically only Year Seven of the countdown.. thread started May 2018, excited comments March 2019, and now in 2020???
At least there's a CHAdeMO plug in Norway (just east of Iron Mountain) now, so you can use the CHAdeMO adapter to get something quicker than a campground. Maybe 20-30 minutes would be enough to get your buffer. It's a bummer that Tesla still isn't making the CCS adapter available. That station offers 62.5 kW, and you're usually lucky to get around 40 kW with the CHAdeMO adapter.Hello from a MN owner. I have plans to go to Mackinaw City area in July and really hoping this opens up. While my MX has a 335 MI range, the wind eats it going around the lake.
From recent experience here, superchargers are now opening in about a month after they break ground. Here's to hoping they start in mid May.