PG&E(Pennyless Gas & Electric) [RE-wrenches]

[jberdner at sma-america.com]

Dear Wrenches:

At the last California PV Alliance meeting the issue of residential Time of
Day Net Metering came up.
The California PUC has required the utilities to offer Time of Day Net
metering and So Cal Edison gave a presentation on their program.  It seemed
like they (SCE & PG&E) were scrambling trying to get something in place so
it is not surprising that the word is not really out yet.  I don't really
think the utilities are trying to oppose this but the PUC just gave them a
mandate a few months ago.

In terms of buying a meter I believe that the utilities require that they
must own the meter.
This has to do with calibrations and revenue issues.
I will try and find out a model number and source for a meter form some of
my utility friends.
Then you can give the information to your uniformed guy to help speed things
along.

If you have any questions or I can be of any further assistance please do
not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,

John Berdner

SMA-America, Inc.
20830 Red Dog Road
Grass Valley, CA  95945
Tel: 530.273.4895
Fax: 530.274.7271

-----Original Message-----
From: William Miller [mailto:wrmiller at slonet.org]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 12:48 AM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: Re: PG&E(Pennyless Gas & Electric) [RE-wrenches]



Ditto.  This question just came up for me too!


William Miller

At 10:41 PM 2/22/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Since we've had some discussion about PG&E and some of you seem to be
>better informed then they are, does anyone know what the story is on
>bi-directional time of use meters? My same uninformed source at PG&E
>did'nt think they were available and I wonder if its more a case of
>the utilities not wanting to have customers that are selling
>high/buying low.I want to see if 'time of use' net metering can be
>applied to grid tie systems and if meter availability is the issue,
>where can I get one of these meters on the open market? Carl Reuter
>


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