California TOU Grid-tie: meter charges [RE-wrenches]

[Bill Brooks]

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Antony,

The $277 charge is the cost of the 6-register, bidirectional, GE form 2S
meter. It is different from the one they use for the standard TOU customer.
The charge was allowed by the PUC for TOU-PV customers since this was a
special category of net metering. Bottom line is that it does impact the
value of TOU for PV but it very unlikely to change.

Bill.

-----Original Message-----
From: Antony Tersol [mailto:tony at appliedsolarenergy.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:43 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: California TOU Grid-tie: meter charges [RE-wrenches]

California wrenches:

1. What are your experiences with utilities charging for TOU meters?
2. Does anyone know the approximate cost of a GE kv watthour meter (S base)?
3. Does anyone know the relevant CPUC or CEC or state law that addresses
this issue?


Background:

In PGE territory, if a residential customer switches to time-of-use (TOU),
there
is a $277 charge for "meter installation and account setup fee" if the
customer
"does not have an existing time-of-use meter programmable for this rate
schedule" and ongoing meter charges of $0.04270/day.  This is independent of
solar, and is addressed in the CPUC tariff for TOU (tariff E-7).  If they
have
had TOU for a sufficient time, they did not pay the $277 charge, but have
been
paying a higher meter charge ($0.12813/day or $46.47/year).

The E-net tariff states: "If the eligible customer-generator’s existing
electrical meter is not capable of measuring the flow of electricity in two
directions, the eligible customer-generator shall be responsible for all
expenses involved in purchasing and installing a meter that is able to
measure
electricity flow in two directions."

We are finding that customers who are already on TOU are being charged an
additional $277 for switching to E-net.  This seems a bit excessive: if $277
is
the charge for "meter installation and account setup", then why is $277
again
charged?

(In SCE territory, there is a TOU-meter charge of $0.072/day, which
presumably
covers the cost of meter installation and account setup.  In SDGE territory,
the
TOU metering chage is $3.84/month.  Apparently in neither territory is there
an
initial fee).

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