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It's probably my confusion and I have not read the restrictions yet but I am not sure why we are restricted to only selling back solar power while we produce it.
It would seem we should be able to save our solar power in the PW and then play it back anytime during the day we want to just as long as we don't go over the rate we contracted for in our PTO.
So for instance I might create 20 kwh of solar in a day at a max rate of 4 kw/hour. I think I should be able to play back to PG&E at 4 kw/hr for 5 hours if I wanted to. Now reality says I would probably want to use some of that solar to offset my own use during peak so it would need to be calculated based on:
rate = (total solar produced - peak consumption amount) / hours in peak. Where rate cannot exceed your PTO. If you have stuff left over it just gets sent back after peak but no real gain or loss.
Does this make sense or am I missing something (like a rule?).
It would seem we should be able to save our solar power in the PW and then play it back anytime during the day we want to just as long as we don't go over the rate we contracted for in our PTO.
So for instance I might create 20 kwh of solar in a day at a max rate of 4 kw/hour. I think I should be able to play back to PG&E at 4 kw/hr for 5 hours if I wanted to. Now reality says I would probably want to use some of that solar to offset my own use during peak so it would need to be calculated based on:
rate = (total solar produced - peak consumption amount) / hours in peak. Where rate cannot exceed your PTO. If you have stuff left over it just gets sent back after peak but no real gain or loss.
Does this make sense or am I missing something (like a rule?).