[RE-wrenches] Solar and tenant billing

[William Miller]

Bill:

I’m not sure what you are doing is entirely legal. Tenants can only be
billed for actual (measured) utility usage.

This does not necessarily apply to your situation but it should be noted:
 Tenants must be billed at the rate the landlord is charged— no marking up
the cost.

I’d say anyone with tenants wanting to pass on utility costs needs to
sub-meter. Good records need to be kept.

If you are being billed at TOU and/or tiered rates then you need to do the
accounting and bill at the variable rates.

E-Gauge is a fine platform for that. You can download an hour-by-hour
record and apply the correct rates.

William Miller

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 6:54 PM frenergy via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> Carl,
>
>              In my area (PG&E, N. California) I've installed solar on
> four of my rentals.  Rather than trying to figure out monthly billing,
> renters come, renters go, true-up, some occasionally don't pay their
> bills, etc. I decided to just bump up the rent to cover the average cost
> of power.  The tenant still gets the PG&E bill and pays the ~$10/mo.
> meter charge and if they are there at true-up time they pay zero or a
> small end-of-year amount.  My renters have been happy with this
> arrangement.
>
>              You have to do some math to have it come out close and I
> did the grid-ties after each rental had some electrical history.
> Fortunately nobody has decided to have a grow-room, yet.  Whenever an
> appliance needs replacing, I install Energy Star replacements.  Of
> course I tell them that if they are reasonably careful their true-up
> will be little to none.  Eventually my investment gets paid off and the
> higher rent goes into my pocket instead of PG&E's.  Win-win.
>
> Bill
>
> Feather River Solar Electric
> Bill Battagin, Owner
> 4291 Nelson St.(shipping)
> 5575 Genesee Rd
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> (USPS, UPS)
> Taylorsville, CA 95983
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> CA Lic 874049
> Solar powered since 1982
>
> On 1/30/2023 5:42 PM, Carl Adams via RE-wrenches wrote:
> > Hello wrenches,
> > I have a client that is installing solar on a commercial building
> > where he has four points of connection for four tenants.  Are there
> > any good solutions out there for metering power for tenants in this
> > situation.  Production metering will be done via  SolarEdge revenue
> > grade meters.
> >
> > With kind of regards
> > Carl Adams
> > SunRock Solar
> >
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