Renovating my house in the suburbs

[pmsmechanic]

I thought that true up deal was an annual settling of the bill for people with solar panels. The way I read that, your friend used $2700 more in electricity for the year than she produced. Her solar system wasn't sized large enough to cover her usage, so she had to buy power from PG&E. At least I think that's the case. :confused3:

I Googled "California True Up". The contract I read says that if you produce more power than you use in one year you don't get paid for the extra kw's. So people deliberately undersize their solar panels. I'm thinking that the extra "true up" bill would have paid for extra panels in short order.

 

[Jim Nelson]

I had 14 panels installed in 2014, my first true up San Diego Gas & Elec. owed me $9, I figured perfect, I broke even. Then it gradually started costing more each year,
last June when my true up bill came I owed them $600. I had 7 more panels installed and so far I'm ahead $ 42. This is after the hottest part of the year for us so we should come out ok for now.
The biggest objection is that they pay the a customer a small percentage of what they sell power to us for. As I recall under the tier system, which we have, they charge us $.034 per kWh but only pay something like $08 per kWh and that is issued as a credit toward the next years bill. I don't know of anyone who has actually received a check from them.
Before moving to this county we lived in Riverside County and had So. Cal. Edison ,which charged the same amount per kWh but their handling and other charges were much less.

 

[MossRoad]

I had 14 panels installed in 2014, my first true up San Diego Gas & Elec. owed me $9, I figured perfect, I broke even. Then it gradually started costing more each year,
last June when my true up bill came I owed them $600. I had 7 more panels installed and so far I'm ahead $ 42. This is after the hottest part of the year for us so we should come out ok for now.
The biggest objection is that they pay the a customer a small percentage of what they sell power to us for. As I recall under the tier system, which we have, they charge us $.034 per kWh but only pay something like $08 per kWh and that is issued as a credit toward the next years bill. I don't know of anyone who has actually received a check from them.
Before moving to this county we lived in Riverside County and had So. Cal. Edison ,which charged the same amount per kWh but their handling and other charges were much less.

Something's way off with your decimal places in those numbers because that's a sweetheart deal in your favor the way it's written.

 

[ultrarunner]

My first annual "True Up" resulted in a check to me for just under $300... but the net to me was less because if the $11 average monthly service fee.

PGE unilaterally change peak usage to later in the evening to capture the segment of the population that had been waiting to off peak 8 pm to cook, dishwasher, dryer, A/C.

The combination of heat and smoke resulted in using more A/C electricity while production of solar electricity plummetted.

As for regs they seldom become more favorable...

 

[Jim Nelson]

Something's way off with your decimal places in those numbers because that's a sweetheart deal in your favor the way it's written.

You're right, its actually 34 cents and 8 cents. Wish it was as I originally posted.

 

[Muhammad]

Been busy... did some carpentry and staining of the center island and started on tile on Saturday.

Here we are four days later, 74 man hours so far and I've got half a fireplace and one wall of backsplash done in items of tile.

The fireplace is using a natural stone which I cut into a chevron pattern. So every tile needed two 45s and then many needed other cuts. The back wall angles forward and in so I focused on the center lines and am not losing sleep over the outer edges being off a bit. Just including a before picture for now since it's not connoisseur finished. I decided to do more than originally planned so need to pick up more tile in Los Angeles soon.

As for the backsplash... this is a beast. 1500+ tiles in a herringbone pattern, counter to ceiling and trimmed around the cabinets, shelves, and range hood. I'm three days in and just today finished the section above the window. It's basically a nightmare scenario in terms of details as almost every single tile needed a cut today, and working above cabinets that are already installed makes measurements difficult. Also on the 45s I met two 22.5 degree corners to continue the tile across the corner. This wasn't actually the worst of it... above the cabinets was the worst of it, especially after I finished one side and while working on the other side realized I had one tile out of place so I had to pull off six tiles and cut new ones.

 

[dragoneggs]

You are just a glutton for punishment with all this tile work after your distressing work!

 

[MossRoad]

Looking nice Muhammad.

These are more my style...

Tic Tac Tiles

:laughing:

 

[Muhammad]

You are just a glutton for punishment with all this tile work after your distressing work!

Honestly I feel like I'm running a super marathon... just keep going. I'll eventually get to the finish line and then I can recover. But yeah it's been difficult mainly because the baby wakes us up at 1am, 3am, and 5am every night.

 

[Muhammad]

Looking nice Muhammad.

These are more my style...

Tic Tac Tiles

:laughing:

That doesn't count! What are those!