My electric bill is a mystery. I started looking into how the bill is actually calculated and found some interesting stuff.
So Cal Edison coming through with some lesson potential. twitter.com/dcox21/status/…
— David Cox (@dcox21) May 11, 2013
@dcox21 oh you Californians and your complicated pricing schemes.
— Dan Anderson (@dandersod) May 11, 2013
@dandersod I prefer to call it "social engineering."
— David Cox (@dcox21) May 11, 2013
@dcox21 Hi David, please feel free to contact us at CCOeChannel@sce.com or call us at 800-655-4555 if you have questions.
— SCE (@SCE) May 12, 2013
I don' think SCE appreciated the "social engineering" comment.
So, I decided to turn this into a 3 Act lesson. Except, their price doesn't fit my model that I modeled after their model.
What am I missing?
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Well, the bill is projected... so it's a forecast.
Doesn't the Californian pricing model have a chronological component? In other words, your prices depend on the time of day, and the total usage?
My issue isn't with it being a forecast, it's the fact that the model I created didn't match the model they claim to use (at least my interpretation of it).
I did some more digging and found that the May/June bill will be different because the baseline allocation changes June 1.
There's no chronological component unless the customer specifically signs up for such a program. Basically, there's a baseline allocation of 11.1 kWh/day in the winter and 18.4 kWh/day in summer (June 1 - Oct 1). Tier 2 kicks in from 100-130% of baseline, Tier 3 is 131-200% of baseline and Tier 4 is >200%.
Most of this was unknown to me at the time I wrote the post.
There are a lot of moving parts to this pricing structure, but it's starting to make more sense.
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