Some thoughts I hope folks find useful...
* The work going on to migrate folks to the new TOU pricing plans is optional. If that happens and you don't want it, you can opt out and go back to the rate you were on before (such as the DR tiered rate). EV rate customers are exempt from the migration.
* Rate switching can be done every 12 months. There is a tool on the "MyAccount" page that will do some analysis with your annual consumption data to figure out rate differences.
* NEM is not a rate . Being a NEM customer means you can export your excess energy to the grid and get retail price for it (up to your annual consumption amount). Energy exported above and beyond your annual consumption is reimbursed at a wholesale rate.
* Being a NEM customer has nothing to do with your rate. You can be on the DR rate, the EV-TOU2 rate, the EV-TOU5 rate, etc and still be a NEM customer.
* Your NEM 20 year grandfathering feature means you can sell to the grid and get retail pricing (within your annual consumption) for the full 20 year period.
* The concept of NEM and storage is based on renewable energy (i.e. exporting renewable energy to the grid or charging batteries from solar). You aren't supposed to charge an energy storage system with grid power when prices are lower and export it during the peak time (as someone said above - the incentives are paid to help build renewable energy projects).
* Seems like I shouldn't have to say this, but wide-spread cheating could eventually cause the design or requirements of programs like NEM to be changed.
* The work going on to migrate folks to the new TOU pricing plans is optional. If that happens and you don't want it, you can opt out and go back to the rate you were on before (such as the DR tiered rate). EV rate customers are exempt from the migration.
* Rate switching can be done every 12 months. There is a tool on the "MyAccount" page that will do some analysis with your annual consumption data to figure out rate differences.
* NEM is not a rate . Being a NEM customer means you can export your excess energy to the grid and get retail price for it (up to your annual consumption amount). Energy exported above and beyond your annual consumption is reimbursed at a wholesale rate.
* Being a NEM customer has nothing to do with your rate. You can be on the DR rate, the EV-TOU2 rate, the EV-TOU5 rate, etc and still be a NEM customer.
* Your NEM 20 year grandfathering feature means you can sell to the grid and get retail pricing (within your annual consumption) for the full 20 year period.
* The concept of NEM and storage is based on renewable energy (i.e. exporting renewable energy to the grid or charging batteries from solar). You aren't supposed to charge an energy storage system with grid power when prices are lower and export it during the peak time (as someone said above - the incentives are paid to help build renewable energy projects).
* Seems like I shouldn't have to say this, but wide-spread cheating could eventually cause the design or requirements of programs like NEM to be changed.