Irvine Company strikes again

[sborsch]

Holy smokes! My super off peak from SCE is .075 per kwh. On top of that I have solar so I really don't pay for fuel for my car. I almost feel guilty. Almost.

Unfortunately "Holy not!" The screengrab you posted shows only your Generation charges. But you need to also add your Delivery charges together with Generation to arrive at your actual rate.

Like you, I have solar. But until my MME arrives I'm driving a plugin hybrid Honda Clarity which has a 17kw battery in it (fun fact: I drive 90% of the time on electric in it). Once I get my MME the charging at off-peak/super-off-peak fun begins1

All of the negative numbers are because I generate, use and store, most of the solar I generate. So far this year, I've solar-over-produced by 768kWhs.​

With an 88kW usable battery in the MME -- and based on my daily driving habits -- I anticipate charging 2-3 times per week and using 50-150kWs per week, which will change those negative numbers and maybe some to positive?

Since I, too, have solar and a 13.5kw solar storage battery (soon to be two of them) hopefully I'll be able to generate all my juice usage with solar, store it, and use a fair amount of it to charge the MME (and have enough left over for whole house backup for 1-2 days).

The kicker? It will be hard to manage trickling in only "free solar" juice each day to charge the MME and maybe keep it topped off with electricity each day and thus try to only use solar generated juice.

Here is the plan I'm on with the "Seriously!?!" per kW electrical charges from SCE:

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[Chuck]

Unfortunately "Holy not!" The screengrab you posted shows only your Generation charges. But you need to also add your Delivery charges together with Generation to arrive at your actual rate.

Like you, I have solar. But until my MME arrives I'm driving a plugin hybrid Honda Clarity which has a 17kw battery in it (fun fact: I drive 90% of the time on electric in it). Once I get my MME the charging at off-peak/super-off-peak fun begins1

All of the negative numbers are because I generate, use and store, most of the solar I generate. So far this year, I've solar-over-produced by 768kWhs.​

With an 88kW usable battery in the MME -- and based on my daily driving habits -- I anticipate charging 2-3 times per week and using 50-150kWs per week, which will change those negative numbers and maybe some to positive?

Since I, too, have solar and a 13.5kw solar storage battery (soon to be two of them) hopefully I'll be able to generate all my juice usage with solar, store it, and use a fair amount of it to charge the MME (and have enough left over for whole house backup for 1-2 days).

The kicker? It will be hard to manage trickling in only "free solar" juice each day to charge the MME and maybe keep it topped off with electricity each day and thus try to only use solar generated juice.

Here is the plan I'm on with the "Seriously!?!" per kW electrical charges from SCE:

Which battery backup are you using?

 

[leeman]

Free is never free and the Irvine company is a business of very large business and they modify cost expenditures and remove them or at least cover the cost of something still a better deal than most other chargers.

 

[sborsch]

Which battery backup are you using?

Tesla Powerwall 2. Best option for storage and software is good too.

Should note that I kinda, sorta wanted to wait to see what would happen with vehicle to home (V2G) since it seems sorta dumb to pay so much for an installed 13.5kW battery when I’ll have a car in the garage with 40-50kWs usable for backup (assuming something close to the Lightning V2G numbers).

But alas I think we are still too far away (2 maybe 3 years?) before I’d trust that V2G wouldn’t compromise a car’s battery system and/or other issues that might arise we can’t yet see.

 

[Chuck]

Tesla Powerwall 2. Best option for storage and software is good too.

Should note that I kinda, sorta wanted to wait to see what would happen with vehicle to home (V2G) since it seems sorta dumb to pay so much for an installed 13.5kW battery when I’ll have a car in the garage with 40-50kWs usable for backup (assuming something close to the Lightning V2G numbers).

But alas I think we are still too far away (2 maybe 3 years?) before I’d trust that V2G wouldn’t compromise a car’s battery system and/or other issues that might arise we can’t yet see.

I looked closely at the Powerwall. The one thing I couldn't get past is that it phones home frequently and if it can't talk to home after a period of time (was it 48 hours?) it will shut down. Living in earthquake country where the grid could be down for much longer than that I didn't see that as a viable option. That was several years ago, however, and maybe they've changed that restriction.

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