I also got the letter, addressed to me as a customer on single meter whole house tariff TOU-D-TEV.
The link at the end of the letter,
http://on.sce.com/touoptions
takes you to a page with:
an EV charging photo,
a table for "Residential TOU" (no EV reference) that includes the new TOU time windows,
a table for the second meter tariff TOU-EV-1 called the "Electric Vehicle Plan,"
but I see no reference to TOU-D-TEV, which is consistent with the content of the letter saying I will be switched; there is no option to stay on it.
As others have remarked, shifting the On Peak period from 10am to 6pm to 2pm to 8pm has a big impact. I speculated on this thread many months ago that SCE might do something like this. I based this opinion on a solar payback analysis I had done for a friend who is in PG&E territory.
PG&E has a similar 2pm to 8pm On Peak window. This window dramatically drops your chances for running your meter deeply backwards from solar during On Peak. I have been getting my big summer credit in $, even with net positive kWh consumption, using the 10am to 6pm window, where I get the high price of On Peak Level 2. Unless you can get your On Peak deeply negative, you can't get this big payback price in Level 2. It appears that there may be no Level 2 in the new tariffs, but the single On Peak price is pretty high. In the PG&E case there is another difference on weekends with their Mid Peak time period that makes going negative even more difficult.
I agree with Abasile:
I now see the TOU Option A, TOU Option B, and "Off Peak Savings Plan" under "Residential Plans" as linked to by smkettner on pg 53.
I will need time to analyze these, but I may go with Option A, even though it is risky, to avoid the $16/mo which sounds like real $.
At this time of year shade shuts down my solar at about 3:30pm, so I would get only about 1.5 hrs/day on peak production, vs 5.5 hrs from 10am to 3:30pm. In the summer, in addition to longer days and less shade, Daylight Savings Time will give us an extra hour, but it will still be a big hit. Running Peak Time until 8pm will of course increase Peak Time consumption. End of the solar gravy train.
The other big change that apparently is still being delayed, is that the new law signed in the Fall of 2013 relaxes the previous Net Metering rule that the price for a given time and level must be equal for both forward and backward flow. As some of us have remarked before, if they don't do this right we might lose our incentive to charge late night and we would instead switch to charging our cars mostly from solar, bypassing our SCE meter completely.
Maybe the grandfathering provision we heard about last year just applies to this equal-price Net Metering rule? If so, that could discourage us from putting in more solar to compensate for the reduced payback from these new rates. Installing more solar might disqualify us from being grandfathered.
The link at the end of the letter,
http://on.sce.com/touoptions
takes you to a page with:
an EV charging photo,
a table for "Residential TOU" (no EV reference) that includes the new TOU time windows,
a table for the second meter tariff TOU-EV-1 called the "Electric Vehicle Plan,"
but I see no reference to TOU-D-TEV, which is consistent with the content of the letter saying I will be switched; there is no option to stay on it.
As others have remarked, shifting the On Peak period from 10am to 6pm to 2pm to 8pm has a big impact. I speculated on this thread many months ago that SCE might do something like this. I based this opinion on a solar payback analysis I had done for a friend who is in PG&E territory.
PG&E has a similar 2pm to 8pm On Peak window. This window dramatically drops your chances for running your meter deeply backwards from solar during On Peak. I have been getting my big summer credit in $, even with net positive kWh consumption, using the 10am to 6pm window, where I get the high price of On Peak Level 2. Unless you can get your On Peak deeply negative, you can't get this big payback price in Level 2. It appears that there may be no Level 2 in the new tariffs, but the single On Peak price is pretty high. In the PG&E case there is another difference on weekends with their Mid Peak time period that makes going negative even more difficult.
I agree with Abasile:
It is not hard to log in and do this, at least for a few days or a week. I recommend doing this.it would be nice to be able to mine the data from SCE's smart meter on our home
I now see the TOU Option A, TOU Option B, and "Off Peak Savings Plan" under "Residential Plans" as linked to by smkettner on pg 53.
I will need time to analyze these, but I may go with Option A, even though it is risky, to avoid the $16/mo which sounds like real $.
At this time of year shade shuts down my solar at about 3:30pm, so I would get only about 1.5 hrs/day on peak production, vs 5.5 hrs from 10am to 3:30pm. In the summer, in addition to longer days and less shade, Daylight Savings Time will give us an extra hour, but it will still be a big hit. Running Peak Time until 8pm will of course increase Peak Time consumption. End of the solar gravy train.
The other big change that apparently is still being delayed, is that the new law signed in the Fall of 2013 relaxes the previous Net Metering rule that the price for a given time and level must be equal for both forward and backward flow. As some of us have remarked before, if they don't do this right we might lose our incentive to charge late night and we would instead switch to charging our cars mostly from solar, bypassing our SCE meter completely.
Maybe the grandfathering provision we heard about last year just applies to this equal-price Net Metering rule? If so, that could discourage us from putting in more solar to compensate for the reduced payback from these new rates. Installing more solar might disqualify us from being grandfathered.