Yodrak
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Yes. In today's electric energy world many public utility commissions require the utilities to un-bundle their charges. Delivery Service charges typically cover the utility's fixed costs for connecting the customer to the grid, independent of what the customer's energy usage is.
In some utilities' rate schedules that delivery service change may be superimposed on the sliding scale of variable charges per unit of energy consumed (or produced, as the case may be) creating a positive offset. So even if one goes negative on the variable charges due to producing more than is consumed, there is still the positive charge to be collected to pay for being connected.
In some utilities' rate schedules that delivery service change may be superimposed on the sliding scale of variable charges per unit of energy consumed (or produced, as the case may be) creating a positive offset. So even if one goes negative on the variable charges due to producing more than is consumed, there is still the positive charge to be collected to pay for being connected.
xtremeflyer said:It's actually very simple and makes perfect sense.. This portion of the bill is "Delivery Service".. so even though you Generated the electricity, it still costs SCE money to Deliver that energy and is passing that small cost on to you. At the end of the day the generation costs/savings are so much higher that doesn't really matter in the long run.