Re: [RE-wrenches] Utitlity Rate question

2021-05-02 Thread Antony Tersol
The combination of tiers and TOU rates isn't as complicated as it could be, because the rate bumps from being in a higher tier or between off-peak, part-peak and peak are independent. The increase between tiers is the same for all the time periods, and the increase between periods is the same for

Re: [RE-wrenches] Utitlity Rate question

2021-05-02 Thread Antony Tersol
PGE: After you export more than the baseline rate, you start getting credited at the over-baseline rate. When there were multiple tiers, you got credited for whatever tier the production was in. i.e. baseline rate for the kWh's up to baseline amount, tier 1 rate for next kWh's up to tier 1 limit,

Re: [RE-wrenches] Utitlity Rate question

2021-05-02 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
You guy's all know that utility is not going to get easier to understand. It is going the other way and has been! Some of the AG solar guy's below me in the greatest growing region in the world are probably the best. I can dig up some of their names from the AG shows on radio KMJ in Fresno. The 5

Re: [RE-wrenches] Utitlity Rate question

2021-05-02 Thread frenergy
Jerry,             That's the easy answer but this all gets really deep into weeds as unless you're a PG&E smart meter (and we /really/ trust them), you don't know when that E-6 baseline is crossed to know when you're getting or paying the higher rate.  There's 2 things going on, baseline and