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Understanding What PG&E Pay’s For Excess Solar?
- Thread starter jaed
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for commercial, 15 minute
for residential 1 hour
https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...1945/1460404044866/NBC-calculation+method.pdf
for residential 1 hour
https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...1945/1460404044866/NBC-calculation+method.pdf
The PG&E Opower data that you can download is on an hourly basis. It should be a quick thing to check this against the single monthly data to confirm if it is an hourly basis or something else. I would do this myself, but I haven't received my first NEM2 bill yet.
aesculus
Still Trying to Figure This All Out
A bit off topic but for those PG&E customers with PWs: Have you found a way to get those huge monthly detailed bills electronically vs paper?
Switch to electronic only on pge.com I haven't received a paper bill in 10+ years.
I am on a direct bill (paperless) and previously never got a paper bill. But since getting on NEM2 I get the 10+ page NEM2 statement in the mail. Is there someplace I need to set a flag to also get the NEM statement electronically?
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I was on electronic bill before PW install. Looks like they revert you to paper after the install. Is the setting still set to paperless?
I wanted them because I see no other way to see what the true-up amount is going to be. Plus I like data.
Still set to paperless. Maybe I should toggle that off and on. It would not be the first time someone coded something to fire only on state change.
aesculus
Still Trying to Figure This All Out
I checked mine too and it was set to paperless.
I guess I will make the call next week too.
charlesj
Active Member
Liking data aside, meter reading is available when true up starts and when it ends a year later, Any positive or negative quantity is it.
charlesj
Active Member
I didn't get my bill as that is paperless. Not sure what I had for other documents but now I am not getting those stacks of paper. What a waste of paper.
I changed my setting bacck to paperless and I haven't got the big stack since. Not only waste of paper, but waste of money. Large Companies can save millions in paper and postage cost by having their customers go paperless
RKCRLR
Active Member
From a RoI standpoint, the objective is to size the system so that you come as close as you can to having $0 annual true-up without getting a net surplus. You're better off paying the $10/month than sizing your system to pay for the $10/month at ~$0.03/kWh. Plus, the Climate Credit will partially offset the $10/month.
Totally agree. However, the unknown is what will future rates be and rate periods. I'm still on EV-A1, but when I switch to EV-A2 it will change the Peak period from 2 to 9 to 4 to 9. That loses 2 hours of solar credit at Peak
Stopping the paper is easy with a phone call. Finding the electronic version where it's hidden on the web site is a different story. Let us know if you need help finding it. It has been posted in other threads.
charlesj
Active Member
Of course the company doesn't want the solar customer to get ahead. That 4-9 in winter is a killer when the sun is barely out.
What's next in the summer, 5- midnight?
