I haven’t read all of the replies to the original posting, but we own a home with a pool and live in RB. Not exactly coastal, not inland…kinda “Coasland” (I may copyright that phrase). Anyway, inground pool, 2 kids, 5 TV’s, laptops, iPads, etc. We’re gone a lot due to sports, don’t use A/C because it really doesn’t get that hot here. Our SDGE bill averaged about $180 per month for the past year. Wife looked into rates at different times of the day etc, so we changed our pool filter run time to start after 6pm (solar heat pumps for pool still run at 2pm).
Last 2 months SDG&E bills were $83 and $97 respectively for July and August.
It’s possible to keep that bill low, even without Solar.