LakeLeaf
Well-known member
I've talked through a half dozen people at the power company about getting a second meter installed.
We are supposed to get time-of-use rates here next year, so I was hoping to put the EVSE on it's own meter and only use the cheapest power to fuel it back up.
My utility's time-of-use rates are set up so that if you use any significant amount of power during the day (peak times), they charge you 2x to 3x the rate you would have if you weren't on time-of-use. Of course, the cost at night is pretty cheap as they want to sell you the power at night when they have plenty of it. Unfortunately, I need my computers and networks running 24x7 so will use a lot of power during the day so can't move my whole house to time-of-day.
The power company tells me that a structure (in this case my structure) can't have two meters because the fire department won't know what circuits are on what meter. (Why they just wouldn't kill both, I don't understand). Too bad, as I could have rolled all of the expenses of the second meter into the EVSE install and the tax break and had dirt cheap power to charge with.
Anyone else looked into doing this?
We are supposed to get time-of-use rates here next year, so I was hoping to put the EVSE on it's own meter and only use the cheapest power to fuel it back up.
My utility's time-of-use rates are set up so that if you use any significant amount of power during the day (peak times), they charge you 2x to 3x the rate you would have if you weren't on time-of-use. Of course, the cost at night is pretty cheap as they want to sell you the power at night when they have plenty of it. Unfortunately, I need my computers and networks running 24x7 so will use a lot of power during the day so can't move my whole house to time-of-day.
The power company tells me that a structure (in this case my structure) can't have two meters because the fire department won't know what circuits are on what meter. (Why they just wouldn't kill both, I don't understand). Too bad, as I could have rolled all of the expenses of the second meter into the EVSE install and the tax break and had dirt cheap power to charge with.
Anyone else looked into doing this?