garygid
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I signed up for a A/C Off-Cycle program like this about 20 or 25 years ago. It was installed, and stayed for about 4 or 5 years, and then SDG&E removed it. I do not know if it was ever activated.
indyflick said:The unit consumes 4 watts, so that would be 35kWh per year. It's not much, but vampire loads rarely are. I'm throwing the breaker for the winter.
This is exactly how I'm looking at it. My goal is to conserve enough kWh's to offset my miles driven in the LEAF year over year. I'm almost there and last thing I want is to add additional 4 watts of vampire load. I have additional conservation measures planned, which don't make economic sense in terms of costs per kWh. However, they make perfect sense in terms of LM's and ICEG, as you point out.wsbca said:indyflick said:The unit consumes 4 watts, so that would be 35kWh per year. It's not much, but vampire loads rarely are. I'm throwing the breaker for the winter.
When you put seemingly tiny loads like this in terms of Leaf miles, and from there into equivalent ICE gas dollars, they start to grab your attention....140 LM, $17 in ICEG (@25mpg). That's about 30 carbon-free trips to the grocery store for us. I think I'm with you on throwing the breaker.
GroundLoop said:Correct.
After the experimental period, you can choose any of the available EV rate plans to move to, and SDG&E expects the available menu of plans to have changed by then. (None of the existing EV-TOU-X rates today look very attractive.)
GroundLoop said:I didn't word that correctly. My understanding is that you can go to any rate plan you like, including DR. Like today, there is no hard requirement that you must switch to an EVTOU plan to charge an electric car.
If you can keep your house+car under baseline, then DR is certainly the way to go.
Nope - let us know how it goes...sdbonez said:anyone in SDG&E territory on this thread have a smart meter and a PV system yet?
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Now, it seems, I'm going to get a smart meter finally (and I'm guessing, am one of the first PV owners around here to get one) - anyone in SDG&E territory on this thread have a smart meter and a PV system yet? Wondering what kind of interesting things happen when it comes time to install the secondary downstream meter for my Leaf shortly... shouldn't be a problem as far as I can see but you never know...
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