Am I doing something wrong? Electric bill

[GreaseMonkey]

At 2 am, maintenance is over. Here’s my latest bill:

Given that I’m on hourly market pricing, there is no specific cents per kWh for the “electricity supply charge” because the rate changes every five minutes.

My understanding (and I am know to be wrong often) is that the price to compare is equivalent to the combination of electricity supply charge and transmission service charge. If that’s the case, the combo amounts to 5 cents compared to 10.399 cents. So I’m saving about $80 a month being on hourly.

The above savings would have been higher in a normal month. But we took an 11 day vacation and didn’t drive so what is typically 350 kWh of charging the Mach-E ended up being 215 according to my Tesla app. That averaged up the cost. We will also drive less in the summer because we both work from home and the kids are not commuting to school.

Below is Delivery time-of-day pricing sheet (the new program):

https://www.comed.com/cdn/assets/v3...elivery_Service_Charges.pdf?branch=prod_alias

I don’t know how you could generate any savings with this rate table (compare tables on pages 1 and 2). The rates for 1-7 pm are double what the regulatory charge is. Need to do more math in the morning.

@kltye, I was wrong. The price to compare is equivalent to the total supply cost, excluding the adjustment. So capacity charge is something that only hourly customers pay. Given that math, my supply cost is around 7.8 cents vs a 10.4. So I saved $39 this month being on hourly, not $80.

Curious to see if you’re faring out better than me.

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[GreaseMonkey]

Anyone has experience with this product:

https://shop.emporiaenergy.com/products/emporia-vue-3?variant=46067941966079

Seems like a good idea, but wanted to check for practical experience.

 

[benk016]

Anyone has experience with this product:

https://shop.emporiaenergy.com/products/emporia-vue-3?variant=46067941966079

Seems like a good idea, but wanted to check for practical experience.

I had one and it lasted just over a year and died. I did flash the firmware on it to make it work with home assistant but it was very customizable.

I replaced it with the Meross version that has native home assistant integration, and it seems mostly the same to me.

 

[schulmeia]

I live in Hawaii. They put a 30% fuel adjustment charge because of the war. You may want to check to see if you have the same charge. As it is today I pay 52 cents per KW hour. Jealous of you folks on the mainland.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

I live in Hawaii. They put a 30% fuel adjustment charge because of the war. You may want to check to see if you have the same charge. As it is today I pay 52 cents per KW hour. Jealous of you folks on the mainland.

This is a strong possibility for the OP.

Our Hawaii island rates are now 36¢ per kWh off-peak (9 am through 5 pm) and 59.2¢ per kWh during peak hours (5 pm - 10 pm), with a slight reduction after 10 pm through 9 am. Before taxes, fees, and misc gouging. That was before the fuel surcharge kicked in. Everyone here was involuntarily switched to TOU a couple of years ago.

 

[Jiji]

Anyone has experience with this product:

https://shop.emporiaenergy.com/products/emporia-vue-3?variant=46067941966079

Seems like a good idea, but wanted to check for practical experience.

I have a 16 channel setup that I reflashed with ESPHome for Home Assistant like @benk016, don't want Emporia having my data or dropping the product and bricking it when they turn off the server.

 

[Kygolfer]

No response from OP. Keeps visiting, not replying.

The amount of responses have been overwhelming. So many different newer and possibilities.

 

[RickMachE]

Have you read your electric bill to determine your rate?

 

[devmach-e]

Anyone has experience with this product:

https://shop.emporiaenergy.com/products/emporia-vue-3?variant=46067941966079

Seems like a good idea, but wanted to check for practical experience.

I’ve had one of these for 3-years. Well, technically the previous version, the Vue 2. Works great. Well worth getting. I use it to monitor all sorts of loads in the house. And I can also monitor solar production and verify what I’m sending to the grid.

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