PSE&G Billing – some sad news
I just got off the phone with the PSE&G Customer Service folks, since I hadn’t gotten my corrected bill for last month.
If you’ve noticed that the corrected bills for the Southern NJ area have been slow or missing, it’s probably because the person handling the corrected billing, Bob Honey, died suddenly a few months ago. They have a new person working on it. That’s too bad – he did a really good job with it when the billing system remembered to forward the uncorrected bill to him (which wasn’t often for me).
Supposedly, they were going to have the net metering billing automated by the 2nd quarter of this year. I asked the CSR to add a question about that to my query about last month’s bill. I’ll let you know if I hear anything.
A Spring Update
It was recently pointed out to me that this site hasn’t been updated recently. Time to fix that with a few little notes.
Power production is up as expected now that spring is here. We’re getting about 30kWh on sunny days. Of course, if you get 2.5 inches of rain and the Delaware has a 50-year flood, you produce nothing. (The flood didn’t affect the house – just my commute.)
We still have not sold our SRECs (Solar Renewable Energy Credits). My wife and I are leaning towards NOT selling them, based on the premise that this will force utilities to pollute less. We’d retire them instead. A reader points out that we could sell them to renewable companies and help the environment. Right now, the highest offer that we’ve received (unsolicited for the most part) was $150 each. Reportedly $175 is the going price now – I expect it to continue to climb until near the end of the SREC fiscal year in a few months.
I’m also in the hunt to buy a hybrid car – probably a Toyota Highlander Hybrid SUV. So far no local dealers are willing to take my deposit – though one dealer thinks he’ll be able to accommodate me in a month or so. I plan to write more about that quest and the final results here, and therefore I’ve started a new category.
That’s all of the news for now. Once I get a full year under my belt, I plan to write up the full statistics on my solar usage and production.
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