Los Angeles, new system up six weeks, purring away happily

DanKegel

Hi all,
my 9kW system in Los Angeles has been up for six weeks now,
http://pvoutput.org/list.jsp?id=38786&sid=44908
Pictures and narrative at
http://kegel.com/energy/solar/retrofit2/
I sized it for A/C but haven't put that in yet... bought a used Nissan Leaf, but even that doesn't make much of a dent in my surplus power.
LADWP puts in smart meters now which count mid-day, morning/evening, and night/weekend separately; I'm about 500 and 400 kWh in the black on the first two, and hovering around zero in the night/weekend category.

I saw a Team San Diego on pvoutput.org, but no Team Los Angeles, so I started one:
http://pvoutput.org/listteam.jsp?tid=1145
If you're in LA, and you share your system output graph on pvoutput, join Team Los Angeles for great justice :-)

Raj174

Hi Dan,

I saw the pictures of your system on solar panel talk. A very nice install. I hope it gives you many years of service.

solar_dave

Yeah your going to enjoy that system, near zero is always great.  IS LADWP as nasty as PG&E?

We love our system here, went from about a $6000 to $7000 annual bill down to about $600 annually while increasing our load with 2 plug-in cars and a new Air conditioned building.  Damn the gas savings are great too! 

Now if we could just keep APS at bay from the nasty rate changes they want!

DanKegel

LADWP is actually pretty nice, although they seem to have trouble sending out accurate or readable bills.
They've been doing a good job keeping rates low enough... somehow they didn't get screwed during the
failed deregulation of the electricity market 15 years ago.

BB.

I thought LADWP was pulling an "ENRON" on their interconnect partners during the 2000's California "deregulation/re-regulation" fiasco. However, according this this, they did not:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20030220005160/en/Report-Finds-LADWP-Aided-State-Energy-Crisis

Although, it did read a little bit like "it was nobodys' fault" justifications that you find in government organizations.

-Bill