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August 28, 2015 at 5:45 PM #21663August 28, 2015 at 9:52 PM #789004
Escoguy
ParticipantToday was a RYU day, but you are correct, no text message.
Last year with solar we had 2-3 days. It took about $10-15 off the bill to meet the targets for 3 days. Not really sure it’s worth it as the day starts at 11 am to 6 pm.
August 29, 2015 at 10:09 AM #789011ocrenter
ParticipantNothing beats solar + TOU. Our use exceeded our solar production by 260 kWh and SDGE still gave us a credit of $70 for the month of August.
August 29, 2015 at 12:41 PM #789014meadandale
Participant[quote=ocrenter]Nothing beats solar + TOU. Our use exceeded our solar production by 260 kWh and SDGE still gave us a credit of $70 for the month of August.[/quote]
Unless you are home during the day (e.g. telecommute) and have to run your AC during the summer while you are home.
August 29, 2015 at 2:28 PM #789015Participant[quote=meadandale][quote=ocrenter]Nothing beats solar + TOU. Our use exceeded our solar production by 260 kWh and SDGE still gave us a credit of $70 for the month of August.[/quote]
Unless you are home during the day (e.g. telecommute) and have to run your AC during the summer while you are home.[/quote]
that is very true. but then you are already ahead of everyone else with lack of commute and the ability to write off a home office. very awesome!
August 31, 2015 at 3:49 PM #789055UCGal
ParticipantI’ve been on reduce your use plan for more than a year. For me – I basically make sure I don’t do laundry or run the dishwasher during those hours and I qualify.
We don’t have solar – but we have a pretty green house… no ac, LED and CFL bulbs, I line dry a lot of my laundry…
So – I made a whoppin’ $1.50 for RYU on Friday.
September 8, 2015 at 8:28 PM #789209moneymaker
ParticipantGot a text message today so guess I’m enrolled. I’m going to do laundry and turn the AC down now in preparation for tomorrow,suppose to hit 100º tomorrow.
September 10, 2015 at 1:16 PM #789245FlyerInHi
Guesti read up a little bit about the program.
It’s only worth it if you normally use a lot of electricity, and on the reduced your use days, cut down a lot.September 10, 2015 at 7:55 PM #789265Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]i read up a little bit about the program.
It’s only worth it if you normally use a lot of electricity, and on the reduced your use days, cut down a lot.[/quote]I’m not sure this is true.
But I guess it depends on what you consider “worth it”…
We are not big users. But I’ve gotten RYU rebates for 3 days so far this billing period. And that’s with little impact to our lifestyle. I did pay attention to when I ran the dishwasher and the laundry. That was it.That said – I don’t get big rewards – I’m getting $1.50 per day for each one I’ve qualified for. Today should qualify as well, and tomorrow is another RYU day. That’s a $7.50 reduction in my bill. For basically no effort.
$7.50 in free money – I’ll take it.
It should be noted we have no AC and no pool -two big consumption hogs.
September 11, 2015 at 1:19 PM #789296Guestyes, ucgal.
But what if you’re already mindful to not run your large appliances before 6:00pm everyday?
this program rewards “bad” people for changing behavior on certain days. But it does nothing for people who are consistently “good”, and cannot reduce use anymore.
Though it makes perfect sense to drive down use on high demand days, it’s perverse to the larger goal of lowering overall demand and protecting the environment (because power companies want growth in demand for revenue growth, but they don’t want demand spikes that require extra capacity or cause blackouts). It’s like giving credits to “bad” kids for cleaning their messy rooms. But the “good” clean kids get nothing because they are good.
September 11, 2015 at 4:00 PM #789313OwnerOfCalifornia
ParticipantI can’t find anything on SDG&E’s website about how exactly this works…only something about $0.75 / kWh “saved”.
How is that quantified exactly? Use less than, say, 10 kWh between 11am – 6pm? and I get the difference * 0.75? Or what limit exactly?
Solar people should totally clean up. I have solar and I “used” negative 8.5kWh during the “reduce-your-use” period yesterday (login to my SDG&E account and it breaks out power consumed per day, including the RYU power).
September 15, 2015 at 5:39 PM #789373an
ParticipantLOL, I said screw you to RYU and the damage so far is:
$103 for the last 16 days
$247 – $334 projected for this billing cycle if I continue similar usage.I can’t fathom how much it would have been w/out solar… probably around $500-600.
September 15, 2015 at 7:23 PM #789374ParticipantIt is based on savings from the average of the previous 5 days, so I imagine that 3rd day in a row of RYU would not get you as much as the first day might. What is not clear to me is is the 5 day average for the 11-6 time frame or the whole day.
September 16, 2015 at 12:21 PM #789382GuestWhat’s up with SDGE reducing to 2 tiers from 4 tiers?
Seems like they should charge the heavy users more to encourage people to save energy.
September 16, 2015 at 1:35 PM #789384bearishgurl
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]What’s up with SDGE reducing to 2 tiers from 4 tiers?
Seems like they should charge the heavy users more to encourage people to save energy.[/quote]
Yeah, I got that e-mail as well. Since my last kid left a year ago, I’ve always been in Tier 1 and my bills have been only $33 to $66 mo for a 4/2/2 SFR. I’m going to get slammed by next spring when there are only two tiers.
So much for being an energy conservationist. I feel the two-tiered system will be very unfair to single-person households with no A/C or pool. We will undoubtedly end up subsidizing energy-hog households and they shouldn’t be my problem …. at all.
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