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Cool idea for the community garden!

All Rate design involves cost shifts between customer classes and the CPUC has focussed on making sure that higher income earners that have the capital to install solar and batteries do not continue to shift costs to lower income customers (hence the change in NEM3.0). Therefore the IOUs believe...

$24.15/month fixed fee unless you are a low income customer. I generally support the fixed fee, as a grid connection charge, but assume that the fixed fee will not remain fixed for long. In exchange for the fixed fee we are told that rates will be reduced and we will see a reduction in price...

Over 100 kWh ! that is a large BESS install. Any photos? Where did you place it? I am soon going to install a 60-80kw system to avoid SDGE's outrageous peak rates. Thinking about placing mine in a standalone shed.

Installers have long made solar/storage less affordable. The solar business model is totally unsustainable as evidenced why so many of these businesses are struggling. How many other construction businesses, have been able to extract margins anywhere near what these solar companies have...

I think that is no longer correct. Last month, the CPUC issued a proposed decision that will lower energy charges by five to seven cents per KWh through a new FIXED charge of $24.15 a month for all customers who are not enrolled in low-income rate programs. As Hedges noted, the Fixed Charges...

This is incorrect. People terminate NEM agreements all the time. It is difficult to modify NEM agreements, although there are allowances to increase production under NEM 2.0 by around 10%, but significantly expanding an existing solar system can trigger a transition from NEM 2.0 to NEM 3.0.

Even if strict liability and inverse condemnation laws were revised related to wildfires, utility bills would not change much. There are too many social policies and programs built into the IOU utility bills. Only moving some of the infrastructure costs onto the state or federal ledger will...

Thanks for the conversation and advice. I expect that many folks (myself included) may soon start asking similar zero-export questions once NEM 3.0 is finalized in California. I believe that there may soon be a large CA market for grid tied, zero-export customers based on the proposed CPUC...

If cost shifts were eliminated, and grid connection/energy service charges were structured based on a cost of service model. Rural (often lower income, higher usage customers) would pay significantly more $$$. Fire hardening (WMP) costs including undergrounding are already well into the billions...

Thanks, awesome project.

Thank you very much for the additional information, and replying to my post. I will reach back out and ask for additional information as I get closer to construction.

Awesome project! What is your system producing daily? And what part of the country are you located ( sorry if I missed this) ?

All - Thanks for the helpful info.

Were these used panels? If so, did you purchase the used panels based on the cost per watt?

Looks awesome. If you dont mind sharing additional information, which Solar Pool heating products did you go with? Pool looks great too!

I just wondered if they may have already had issues and may not have been stored and then subsequently stacked for shipping properly.