Comment by bullfightonmars
8 hours ago
Are you saying that they don’t let rate payers take advantage of low rates to advantage load shift?
That seems counterproductive and exploitative.
8 hours ago
Are you saying that they don’t let rate payers take advantage of low rates to advantage load shift?
That seems counterproductive and exploitative.
I have an EV and am on a Time of Use rate plane here in SF. My lowest rates are between 12am and 3pm every day. I charge the car and run everything I can in terms of major appliance use between these hours (dishwasher scheduled to start at midnight or manually run early in the day, washer/dryer loads run in the morning). I am home during the day which makes this easier to do though. Another solution of course would be to bank your solar generation or low rate electricity into a set of batteries that you could draw from during peak times.
PG&E doesn’t even give all its time-of-use ratepayers the same peak hours. The rates are nonsensical.