Given that my Camry gets about 40mpg would save about $ 25 everytime I go 300 miles if I owned a Tesla.

At 10,000 miles per year do not think I could live that long to break even.

Also interesting implications for solar customers (like me!) - obviously could benefit during the peak daylight hours - I wonder how they’ll adjust the exported KWs during all of the time periods involved. Right now it’s about $0.09 per KW . I also agree with others in that there seems to have been no mention of this significant change thus far - and do they have the technology in place to support such as change.

Bend Over and Smile....

Tesla owners drive an EV not just because they are 3 times more efficient than antiquated ICE vehicles. We drive an EV because they are more fun. Modern, quiet, clean, smooth. Auto drive feature is sweet as is one pedal driving (it brakes and stops itself). But the best feature is the instant torque when pressing down the right foot. None of that lag associated with combustion, turbochargers, or downshifting. Sheer acceleration. Then the downer is when I have to drive my Chevy Colorado with its 3.6 liter V6. What a dog compared to the Tesla.

battery storage
 

Seems like an incentive to put in a battery storage system. Store all the power you can in batteries from midnight to 6:00am. Draw upon that power during the heat of the day.

If those times are correct very little of my electricity will be in peak hours and I should get a cut in my electric bill.

In California they had a tier system and very little of your electricity would occur in the low tier I believe it was 95 kWh at 0.12 up to 0.39 for over a 1000 with 5 tiers.

Right! Currently our meters can't report usage based on time of day.

ComEd I Illinois has a sign up for notification of peak hours on very hot days. By reducing your electrical outlay during that time you earn $ if less than the year before. It happens maybe 2-3 times in the summer. I always earn $ that go against my next bill! Electricity is more expensive in my Florida home for sure. I pay less in Illinois.

Electric useage
 

My wife and I switched to a heatpump wster heater last October. It has saved us from 200 to 300 kwh per month. Bought it at Lowes -A O Smith. Had it installed bt Dunstan Plumbing. Cost about $2,400. Best decision ever. Never used electric elements to supplement at all.

You pay more for practically everything else up there.

We got our electric bill with news letter last night and while it mentions special pricing for electric cars no mention of time of day billing

I dont know why this is being done. I'm concerned with the hatred of utilities by government. Each and every large utility has brown outs for sure. The government won't build anything at all. Then the go broke so then they must raise prices. There is nothing to help the utility at all but govt.

Did you proofread this?

We went true a smart meter conversion in Naples Florida Area with LCEC a cooperative similar to SECO.. TWACS Technology
This system will require the Cooperative to replace the existing electric meter with a new TWACS (Two-Way Automatic Communication System) digital meter. This project is designed to not only benefit customer-owners with convenience and cost attributes but to also increase the efficiency and safety of the Cooperative's employee team.
This technology will enable the Cooperative to have reliable two-way communication between our offices and your meter. The TWACS system uses existing power lines to transmit data to and from the home office. Eliminating the need for most meter readers.

Received this email from SECO yesterday:
SECO has learned that there was an erroneous blog post claiming that we are mandating all members opt-in to a time-of-use rate and that is simply not true. I’m sorry for the misinformation.

We do have a TOU rate that you may be interested in since you charge your vehicle at night. Remember though, if you use your HVAC to cool/heat your home during peak hours the price per kWh is almost 23 cents. With summer temperatures, this may not be the time to make the switch.

I called SECO office Thursday and received the same info.

Received the following email from SECO to this question:

Is SECO intending to replace dumb meters with smart (AMI) meters in three to four years as announced by SECO's CEO at the 2022 annual meeting?

Answer: Thank you for your email. Regarding your inquiry, we are in the process of working on changing out the meters to AMI meters. It will take some time to get them all changed out, so I do not have a timeframe as to when your area will be changed out.



Bottom Line SECO will transition to smart meters as I have stated. And their public relations and communication in general are extremely poor

This was in place in MD at least five years ago if not 10 years ago. I was surprised to learn it wasn't already in place in Florida.

If I remember correctly (it's been a while), time-of-use metering saved me money on Maryland with no changes to my normal usage. That was when I was out of the house working all day - we'll have to see what happens now that I'm retired.

AMI meters transmit data of usage eliminating the need for meter readers. It will not require all to go to time of day metering unless you elect this billing option.
As a side not our daughter has just installed solar on their home in Ct AMI meters installed on cloudy day with showers panels are making 30kwh during daylight on full sun days panels are producing 55kwh. Power consumption average is 20kwh for home per 24 hr day according to meter they are not on time of day metering.

Perhaps obvious but….you either stay on flat rate or go to variable, to include $.23/kw peak? Thanks.

Typically, yes. You either have the standard meter or they replace that with a time-of-use meter. One or the other, all-in on whatever choice you make.

When one of the electric companies in MD switched over they offered customers the choice. For one or two years you could voluntarily sign up for time-of-use billing. Later, they decided everyone would go to time-of-use metering and they changed everyone's meter. Who knows what SECO will choose to do but it sounds like it is a few years out anyway.

Thanks

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Ours is by Honeywell. They make quite a few, some, like ours, you can even program in the humidity you prefer, others just program for heat/cool temp, for each day of the week, so for those who work or are gone most of the day, the can program to just keep moderate cool/humidity, and then automatically cool a bit lower at the time you expect to return. Or, conversely, if you prefer it not as cool at night or when sleeping, you can program that in also. For us, we actually did find it lowered the bill, but part of that was, of course, replacing the old less efficient unit also ! I doubted the claims about efficiency, doubted actual savings, but the combination of a solid state programmable thermostat, and a new AC unit, did make an observable bottom line difference !

As a member owned rural co-op, quite different from a for profit corporation/utility (because this area was all ag at one time), I am surprised this was not mentioned at all at the last membership and election meeting, unless it was VERY quickly proposed the one time during the meeting I did leave to go to ....the restroom for a few minutes ! They usually do a great job of taking member input and discussion. Just surprised it was not even brought up by any members ?