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San Diego Gas & Electric rates are nation's highest
Let me ask you this, Dennis. How much was your monthly bill before you installed your system in 2006? The difference you're talking about here is about $90 a year, which I would guess would be close to a single monthly bill before you installed your system. I know $90 is $90 but look at the big picture, your "long term interest" as you called it. If it takes you 15 yrs to pay off your system, at current rates, the TOTAL electric bill you would end up paying for that time period is less than $850. If you paid only $100 a month before solar, that's $18k over the same time frame. Theoretically, you're saving over $17k, yet complaining over $90 a year. I just don't get that. Unless SDGE was doing something completely different than I have been told by others, prior to 1 Jan, 2011, all you received was a credit against your usage, up to the actual amount used; no money back and your account was zeroed after reconciliation. In other words, you installed your system knowing, at the time, that you wouldn't would receive any monetary reward for excess power and you called it "the best investment I've ever made". You're getting something that you originally wasn't available, from an investment you choose to make, and complaining about not getting enough. I just don't get that. Just my opinion. Opinions vary— May 3, 2013 1:31 p.m.
Desert DINKs
You also might want to research "dink". There are other more shall we say "alternative" definitions of the term which might be more apropos, when one considers your description.— May 3, 2013 12:10 p.m.
Outrage at Costco food court: Pepsi replaces Coke
Never tasted recycled battery acid, so I'll take your word on that. Pespi sucks. Diet Pepsi sucks harder. Diet Dr. is the ONLY PepsiCo product I will drink and I would guess that it won't be available at Costco.— May 3, 2013 9:35 a.m.
San Diego Gas & Electric rates are nation's highest
"Curiously the highest alerts were generated during the Enron debacle." Really not so curious at all. California had more than enough generating capacity at the time to handle the demand. It was the energy companies, chief among the Enron, who caused the supply/demand shortfall. They took plants down for "maintenance" on peak demand days to game the system and be able to basically name their price to sell electricity to California. Like I said, not so curious. Enron helped "create" the alerts.— May 3, 2013 9:23 a.m.
Desert DINKs
As I recall, that opening day, so I will say "You're Welcome!" Dodgers 4 - Padres 1.— May 2, 2013 6:32 p.m.
San Diego Gas & Electric rates are nation's highest
And so am I. And if someone doesn't want to listen to someone simply because they went to a different school, then I would label the person as ignorant. And if the person they refused to listen to was a Nobel Prize winning physicist, well as far as I'm concerned that increases their ignorance exponentially.— May 2, 2013 3:46 p.m.
Bombs away! Padres beat Cubs when wind blows out
And apparently not so much when the wind is blowing in.— May 2, 2013 7:30 a.m.
For what it's worth: New York magazine noticed Bronx Pizza a while back
Good pizza is like good spaghetti. If it's good when it's served hot, it's even better cold the next day!!!!— May 1, 2013 9:58 p.m.
San Diego Gas & Electric rates are nation's highest
Good luck with that. He/she might want to read up on the work of Professor Robert Laughlin of the Stanford Physics Department. That would be Nobel Prize Winning Professor Robert Laughlin.— May 1, 2013 7:41 p.m.
Beginning of the end for San Onofre?
$1500, not 15K.— May 1, 2013 7:37 p.m.