[Evans, Marv]

We have SDG&E. They have a contract over a period of years to deliver power to the County. It's interesting that the new mayor of the city of San Diego is currently opening the process up to alternative bidders for electrical service. SDG&E automatically had the contract renewed for decades and paid a really low fee for it. I'm glad to see a little competition introduced into the process. Like I've said before, one of my main reasons for installing solar generation was cost increase. Our house is all electric. Our highest monthly bill went up from $495 to $595 from one year to the next, indicating to me how much they were able to raise rates. My system should pay for itself later this year or inito next year.

Edit: in deciding the size of your system, it doesn't pay to oversize it and generate power you won't use. I think usually companies size systems for 10% over usage. That's why we generate our extra power. At the time I didn't know anything about it, but luckily it seems to have worked out well for us. So if you're intending on getting an EV, you might use your system as is until you get an idea about power usage over the year. You can always add panels later when you can judge if it's econonical or not.