Glenn
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Here's what I've both read and heard from a seemingly knowledgeable PGE rep at this weekend's tour stop. "Pacific Gas and Electric Company offers a special discounted rate for our Electric Vehicle (EV) customers, the Experimental Time-of-Use Low Emission Vehicle rate (Schedule E-9). The E-9 rate is mandatory (my emphasis) for those customers that are currently on a residential electric rate and who plan on refueling an EV on their premises."
E9A uses your existing meter (which I assume has to be a Smart Meter??) and calculates everything at a new rate; E9B leaves your existing situation as is and adds a second meter for the E9 portion. This new meter can be used only for charging an electric vehicle!
If true, this scenario seems to increase the cost of a gallon of electricity quite a bit. With E9A we'll see a significant increase in our peak usage rate ( for everything but the EV.) By significant, I mean an increase from about 11-13 ¢/KwH to to 28.4 ¢/KwH from 2:00pm to 9:00pm during the summer. With E9B we'll incur a hefty one-time expense of installing, permitting, and possibly rewiring for a second meter and panel which can then be used only for the EV.
My questions:
1) Am I misreading something? I'd love to think so and hope there's a PGE/PUC guru on here who can clarify.
2) Is this (as we were told in San Jose) a PUC thing and if so does it apply to all utility companies in California? What about other states?
3) Any suggestions for dealing with this? We were told, and it sorta makes sense, that dealers will be notifying PGE about EV purchasers, so it doesn't look like one can "fly under the radar."
I'll try to attend the upcoming CVRP workshop in SF ( http://tinyurl.com/29smwua ) for more information, but would love to get a headstart on understanding this.
Glenn
E9A uses your existing meter (which I assume has to be a Smart Meter??) and calculates everything at a new rate; E9B leaves your existing situation as is and adds a second meter for the E9 portion. This new meter can be used only for charging an electric vehicle!
If true, this scenario seems to increase the cost of a gallon of electricity quite a bit. With E9A we'll see a significant increase in our peak usage rate ( for everything but the EV.) By significant, I mean an increase from about 11-13 ¢/KwH to to 28.4 ¢/KwH from 2:00pm to 9:00pm during the summer. With E9B we'll incur a hefty one-time expense of installing, permitting, and possibly rewiring for a second meter and panel which can then be used only for the EV.
My questions:
1) Am I misreading something? I'd love to think so and hope there's a PGE/PUC guru on here who can clarify.
2) Is this (as we were told in San Jose) a PUC thing and if so does it apply to all utility companies in California? What about other states?
3) Any suggestions for dealing with this? We were told, and it sorta makes sense, that dealers will be notifying PGE about EV purchasers, so it doesn't look like one can "fly under the radar."
I'll try to attend the upcoming CVRP workshop in SF ( http://tinyurl.com/29smwua ) for more information, but would love to get a headstart on understanding this.
Glenn