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Southern California Edison Introduces Online Plug-in Car Rate Assistant to Estimate Cost of Fueling Electric Vehicles
8 September 2010
Southern California Edison has launched an online Plug-in Car Rate Assistant to help customers estimate the cost of fueling an electric vehicle and the impact on their electricity bill.
After SCE customers provide facts such as location, daily power usage, vehicle type (such as a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle or battery-electric vehicle), mileage, and time of day use (on- or off-peak), the plug-in car rate assistant will provide an estimated comparison of the average monthly electricity and gasoline bills.
The online car rate assistant will provide an idea of the bill impacts and the benefits of charging electric vehicles during off-peak hours, 9 p.m. to noon. It’s important for customers to understand the advantages of the various rate plans.
—Steve Powell, SCE’s manager of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Readiness
SCE’s plug-in electric vehicle website also features the first of three educational videos listing the steps necessary to become plug-in ready. Upcoming videos will include questions customers should ask when thinking about buying an electric vehicle and a description of SCE’s efforts now underway to meet the coming of plug-in electric vehicles.
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What SCE will never make a video about is how utilizing distributed energy in an individual residence or a residence pod - is another way to recharge an EV. But now we have a great big poster boy for CHP. It is the LEED Platinum certified Bank of America tower in New York City. The world's greenest skyscraper.
Not only because of the LEED standards, but because it uses a 5.1MW co-generation system. The energy generated provides up to 70% of the tower's annual electrical demand, plus heating and cooling. At night they make ice with the excess electric to balance daytime cooling peaks.
http://www.solaripedia.com/13/173/1728/bank_of_america_tower_cogeneration_diagram.html
Looks like CHP we've been talking about for years is about to hit the big time. And it will scare old utils like SC Edison. But it shouldn't. Because if utilities are really in the energy business they will adopt CHP and make it a product. Time will tell if centralized power utils have the vision to see beyond a "smart" grid.
Posted by: Reel$$ | September 08, 2010 at 03:49 PM
I would want my utility and car dealer on the same page before I EVER considered buying an EV. None of this DIY surprise at the end of the month with the bill. There is a separate time of use meter with charging station and separate billing. I know EXACTLY what the energy for my car will cost before any decisions are made.
Posted by: SJC | September 12, 2010 at 02:51 PM