Amazing!!!

[cwerdna]

That's a fraction of high-tier PGE rates.

Yep. For those who are blessed w/cheap electricity (say below 13 cents/kwh, on average), try plugging in your monthly electric use into http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/myaccount/charges/index.page" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; w/a 95136 zip code and no for CARE (only for qualifying low income people). It's a bit too low as it doesn't include tax and fees.

For those in cheap areas, I'd be curious to hear of a typical monthly electric bill usage and cost along w/what it'd be in PG&E w/the above zip. If you ran the numbers, you'd probably understand our ire towards PG&E.

Also, try downloading our residential and residential time-of-use schedules at http://www.pge.com/tariffs/electric.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. During peak times if you're into tier 4 or above (w/our joke baselines) for E-6 and E-9 can cost over 50 cents/kwh.

If one chooses EV-A or EV-B (E-9 I think is no longer available), there are no tiers, but one can see peak rates are 37+ cents/kwh. Look at the tabs in the XLS file to see the definitions of the various times.

When I was on E-1 that wasn't time-of-use, even when I stayed within tier 1, with tax and fees, it was ~13 cents/kwh on average.

I'm in area X of http://www.pge.com/myhome/customerservice/financialassistance/medicalbaseline/understand/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, so a household would get these daily baselines. The first one is for households w/natural gas and the latter w/o.

Electric - Code B
Basic Quantities Summer: 11.0 Winter: 11.7
Electric - Code H
All-Electric Quantities Summer: 10.3 Winter: 19.3

If you subscribed to "Carwings", it calculates the total KWh used by the Leaf for each month.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't take into account charging losses. And, it will be off depending on what voltages you're charging at (e.g. higher charging loss at 120 volts). And, those w/the S trim level of the Leaf have no ability to use Carwings.

 

[ksnogas2112]

Just a plug (get it) from the other side of the state .... 9 cents during winter (Oct-May), 10 cents during summer (Jun-Sept). Part of the reason it's cheaper in the midwest is we're closer to the coal mines and in the case of St. Louis, KC, and Chicago areas, right along the major train tracks so it's not a major detour to get the coal to the plants. The downside is that 'clean' energy around here is when they wash the coal cars off before loading them.