Re: New home charging station soon on li

["Gardner L. Harris" <gardnerh@JUNO.COM>]

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997 14:26:24 -0500 LEE A HART <XURQ03A@PRODIGY.COM>
writes:

>
>That's exactly right. If you want power 24 hours a day, you had to
>have two
>separate services, and two separate meters. And would receive two
>separate
>electric bills each month, with two minimum charges. These limitations
>made
>the off-peak rate worthless to me.
Just FYI, how it works with SoCal Edison, each home with an EV can have 2
meters.  The home can have TOU (time-of-use) or not.  The EV MUST have
TOU or there's no reason for the extra meter.

The off-peak EV rate is about 4.3 cents per kWH. Winter on-peak is
roughly 15 cents but summer on-peak is 33 cents.

By contrast if one had TOU on the home the off peak rate is roughly 7
cents. Winter on-peak is 17 cents but summer on-peak is .......are you
ready?......39 cents.  This means that using air conditioning from 10AM
to 6PM could bankrupt you but a decently insulated home (ours could be
better) if cooled sufficiently at night will remain so during the day so
that when 6 PM rolls around and the A/C picks up again, you haven't
wished for winter.

# One caveat is that is one opts for household TOU, it's for a minimum of
a year.  No fair trying to have it in winter but not in the summer. #2
caveat is that if you go off TOU after that year is up, you cannot get it
back for a year.

In our case the summertime bills went from nearly $400 last year to under
$250 this year.  Wintertime bills went from $250 to $125.

On the EV TOU side, our EV1 has never cost us more than $24 a month to
keep charged and the usual amount is <$19.  The only times it climbs
beyond that is if the car MUST be recharged between noon and 9PM which is
EV peak time.  Obviously we try to avoid charging during the day.

GardnerH
Re: New home charging station soon on li