Our Utility Rates Team’s Top 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Utility rates are a major factor when you’re modeling the avoided cost of your solar and energy storage projects in Energy Toolbase. We take pride in having the most accurate and transparent rate schedules in our database for our users, and our in-house rates team is there to ensure they …
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) implements new rates and increases existing ones (May 2020)
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), one of California’s big three investor-owned utilities (IOUs), increased its existing electric rates and implemented additional ones on May 1, 2020. With this increase, PG&E forecasts a $770 million increase to its electric revenue. According to the Advice Letter 5661-E-A , this results in an …
Southern California Edison (SCE) increases rates 7% across the board (April 2020)
Southern California Edison (SCE), one of California’s big three investor-owned utilities (IOU), is on the brink of implementing significant increases to their bundled electric rates. Next week, on Monday, April 13 , 2020, SCE is scheduled to raise rates by an average of roughly 7%, which will affect all categories …
PG&E implementing new ‘B’ rates on November 1, 2019
Pacific Gas & Electric is the last of the three main California investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to implement rate changes that are a result of their 2017-2019 General Rate Case (GRC). Every three years the IOUs are required to submit a formal proposal to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) addressing …
We’ve surpassed 50,000 rates in ETB!
The Energy Toolbase platform has hit a big milestone. We have surpassed 50,000 active, global utility rates in our database!
A Guide to Grandfathering Protections for Solar Customers
Grandfathering protections for solar customers has become a hot topic over the last few years as utilities around the country have continued to change their rate design structures and Net Energy Metering (NEM) frameworks. In this blog I’m going to discuss all aspects of grandfathering for solar customers, which can …
WEBINAR: Exploring the value of custom rates
Summary: Utility rate structures are one of the biggest factors when analyzing behind-the-meter solar and energy storage projects and can have a dramatic effect on your avoided-cost, total project savings and the overall economics of your project. Not all customers installing solar/storage projects are going to be on the same rate structure; variances between them […]
Using custom rates for modeling solar + storage projects
Utility rate structures are one of the biggest factors when analyzing the economics behind solar and energy storage projects. Not all your customers are going to be on the same rate structure. The variances between two customers could be a small as a adding a charge or your customer has …
SCE’s “Final Decision” Rates, Part 2: Commercial Rate Changes
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SCE’s “Final Decision” Rates, Part 1: Residential Rate Changes
Like the other three big IOU’s (Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric) Southern California Edison is in the process of rolling out new rates for its commercial, residential and agriculture customers. These new rates mean some big changes for solar and energy storage projects in that …