Utility rate

[BPL201]

What is the best rate program to go on for PG&E? The EV rate doubles the prime usage but lowers the off peak. ( does that save enough to justify) I have Model 3 and my bill doubled this month because of my daily charging.

 

[mblakele]

There's some discussion at PG&E customers. What do you spend/mo to charge your car? and other threads in the California sub-forum. Another recent thread is PG&E Rate Schedules: "Home Charging" (EV2-A) Goes Live vs. Others — but that thread focuses on solar plus storage.

The short answer is that it depends on your usage and how much you can shift off-peak. You can try to calculate that. There's a PG&E online rate calculator, but it'll look at your past usage, pre-EV. It might be more accurate to simply use the numbers from your last bill.

For me, the EV rate works out best. But I'm on EV-A in an all-electric house with no air conditioning, and I have west-facing solar with NEM2: factors like those can change the picture quite a bit. You'd probably be signing up for EV2-A, not EV-A.

What's best for you will probably come down to EV charging off-peak vs needing to run air conditioning or other major appliances on peak.

 

[BPL201]

Thanks, I’ll drill down using those sites and report back my real world findings

 

[BPL201]

What’s Powerwall ?

 

[5170304]

What’s Powerwall ?

Power wall is the Tesla battery system.

 

[srs5694]

I notice that @BPL201 is located in Illinois, whereas @mblakele is located in the SF Bay Area. Thus, unless @BPL201's location information is wrong, I suspect that "PG&E" is meaning two different things and the discussion/research may go off the rails.