fooljoe
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I'm on a single meter. They put me on a smart meter a while back, then came out again to change it to a net metering - capable smart meter. I guess the original smart meter wasn't quite smart enough. With the current meter they definitely have all the information they need to get the TOU net metering thing right, as long as their software works.Boomer23 said:I meant usage in general terms, i.e. positive or negative usage. I think that what you are seeing is an effect of the transition and not a routine thing, unless it is a billing software glitch, see last paragraph below.
BTW, are you on a single meter or a dual meter TOU plan? I'm assuming single meter by the rates you are showing.
I haven't seen that type of display on my SCE page, probably that is because I don't yet have a smart meter. But I thought that SCE hasn't yet figured out how to handle solar net metering along with TOU billing on a smart meter, hence everyone with solar and TOU is on a manually read meter. If you have a smart meter and they are using it for TOU billing, maybe the strange billing behavior is caused by a problem with SCE's programming for billing TOU and solar PV on a smart meter. If so, you definitely should call their attention to it.
Unless they have a new approval from the CPUC, which I think we would know about, they need to be spreading the billing tiers across all three time ranges so that you get credits at Tier 2 for some of your solar production if you are seeing billings for any of your usage at Tier 2.
Check out the cool display you can see on their page with a smart meter:
Seeing how Aeolus has seen similar delays maybe their software is the problem and they know it. I bet the bill I saw is just an attempt to "manually" adjust my old bill, but I think I'll call in the morning to make sure.