My home electric bill has basically doubled in the past 4 months! WTF is going on?

[RLXXI]

Doing my part to get out from under the light bill. I can run the house all day and night when sunny, just takes a couple days to recharge the battery array.

These sun trackers pull in the max amount of power compared to a static roof mount, have one of those as well.

About half way where I want to be as far as panels/trackers, the truck tipped me over where I wanted to be in storage capacity. Hope to have the new one producing this weekend.

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[WilliamRobert]

It’s the PJM interconnection capacity auction! They have all kinds of excuses for the rates going up, but my opinion is it’s old fashioned collusion to block renewables for as long as possible and to cash in before the coal and gas plants retire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJM_Interconnection

https://www.pa.gov/governor/newsroo...ction-against-pjm-saves-consumers-billions-ac

 

[THX1138]

No agreement required if not exporting here.
With "smart" meters they would know if you export even tiny amount of power - even accidently.

I think the meter on my garage was installed long ago, before solar net metering was a thing.

 

[NW Ontario Ford Lightning]

When they installed the "smart" meters here (2004 in the south of Ontario, 2010 in my part of NW Ontario) the main change was Time of Use (ToU) billing- allowing different rates at set times of day, to encouage load shifting to evenings ie washer/dryer after 7:00 pm resulted in some cost savings per month.
In 2019 when I first got into planning a solar installtion the ToU rates with very low overnight rates allowed the numbers to work out for me even during winter months where solar was never going to power all my loads.

To ensure I NEVER back feed the grid from my solar/battery/inverter installation, the only connection between the utility and my home battery set up is an AC-DC transformer for overnight winter battery charging.
In other words, my home is always powered by the batteries/solar, and the utility is only used to power a back up DC charger, not to directly power loads, and the utiltiy doesn't connect to my inverter at all, only to the DC charger via relay and control system.

{one exception: I have a circuit directly from the Utility panel for 48A EV charging when needed}

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