About 4,000 PG&E customers are without power in Concord after an unplanned outage by PG&E. The outage was reported at 9:41. There is no estimated time of restoration.
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About 4,000 PG&E customers are without power in Concord after an unplanned outage by PG&E. The outage was reported at 9:41. There is no estimated time of restoration.
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Watch for the next rate hike, folks.
Good reason to have solar. I’m self-sufficient now. 😎
No u aren’t. Pge monitors and controls your electrical output. You are required to sell your excess electricity at wholesale price then pge resells it at retail. You are not allowed to accumulate electricity. You are like a subordinate electrical farm for Pge.
it’s extremely frustrating. I was slightly over on the amount that I used vs how much I generated last year and because of their newfangled way of calculating things, I wound up paying over $1.25 per kwH for that overage. I paid at more than double the highest possible rate for kwH when all was said and done (not counting any other fees, taxes, delivery charges, etc.). How it is possible and allowed that the rate is not capped at the max possible rate is beyond me.
Also, when power goes out, we are not able to generate any solar energy, so we are forced to use and pay this exorbitant price for PGE power. The only option to mitigate this is to get a battery for storage but then we would possibly be kicked onto net metering 3.0 where the situation would be even worse.
PGE is the bane of my existence and if I didn’t work full time it would probably be my mission in life to see them forced to sell so we didn’t’ have to be subjected to a for-profit utility company.
Get a battery. It’s a different game that way.
For those who can afford solar and battery and the etc’s ~~like Capt Bebops 😉 your panels
and your battery and that inverter thingy…will all wear out before you have recouped their
cost ~ versus how much you save in PG&E’s robbery from your bank account.
But it may just be worth it anyway. Until then..you will feel really good about not paying
the thieves for 15-ish years.
Which reminds me. How IS the School solar that saved us Hundreds of Thousands of
PG&E dollars those first few years with all our new hvac? ALL those are ready to be
replaced again, but we’re still paying for the old ones….
We borrowed Hundreds of Million$$ to save hundreds of thousands in elec…. and
spent any savings on plastic grass and cement benches.
Yes, we’re still paying for all that, with another 20 or so years to pay on 40 yr bonds
…and paying now that next one now too… AND … they’re looking for more $$$ in
next election ..to replace, refinance, …………..forever….now……AGAIN.
AND, another question. The schools and pieces of school grounds, and rentals hvac
wear and tear and bond purchased solar and grounds improvement of spaces of
MSUSD owned properties…. does that rent pay into the payoff of the School Bonds?
No? Why not? Who’s keeping the books?
Not all modern technology is bad. For me this is an experiment. Let’s see if you are correct. But I live in a neighborhood where folks have had solar for years. Always fun look around when PG&E has an outage here whose lights are still on.
Who is the top Ayatollah at PG&E ?
He got some ‘splainin to do!
What are you talking about? I have a solar system connected to the backup battery and everything is connected to the grid. Excess solar output doesn’t go to the grid until the battery is fully charged. During blackouts the house runs on battery.
The real problem is that having a battery adds approximately 60% to the cost of the solar installation, which makes it prohibitively expensive. Well, almost.
… soooooo what’s their excuse this time? The weather was too nice? traffic was unusually light?
Plug n Play solar power $2500. Homeowners in Berkeley have bought these solar power generators and it’s off the grid. It’s in a legal “gray area”. That means PGE doesn’t know about it and cannot “mafia” you into selling your electricity and controlling your life. You get to use the homegrown electricity that you make in your own backyard. Craftstrom is the manufacturer.
So far with solar PG&E isn’t controlling my life. But they sure were trying with those evening usage zones that to me really didn’t make any sense and insulting.