After going solar the first thing you will likely notice is the drastic decrease in your monthly electric bill.
Smud bill before and after solar panels.
Smud customers that install a solaredge inverter can receive a one time incentive of up to 1 000 plus 20 monthly bill credits for enrolling in a program where their battery storage system can be managed for maximum efficiency.
With the loan their solar energy system would save them 12 per month.
The average cost of a solar system in the smud service area based on current local solar offers from solar companies is 2 62 per watt.
All smud buildings are closed.
Smud then promised to conduct a public process to determine its solar policies for the future.
In other words solar would start saving them money immediately.
Thanks to our experience in the industry we ve got the knowledge and background to help you understand why your energy bill might seem higher than it should be and identify the proactive steps you can take to get.
Solar for your home.
Even as that process unfolds smud keeps doing things that block people from making and storing solar energy on.
Their 46 new energy bill plus a 57 monthly net loan payment would put them at a 103 per month net energy cost vs.
I pv generated 131 kwh.
If the meter is not returned to smud then the contractor will be billed for the missing pv meter.
This makes the cost of a standard 7 83 kw residential solar system 20 515 before the state and federal tax credits and 14 959 after tax credits are received.
Devices will be optimized to smud s time of day tod rate by charging during the cheapest times of the day and being ready for use during the most expensive.
We re investing over 20 million in the next few years on infrastructure and software updates to be able to manage and accommodate the expected increases in renewable energy resources such as rooftop solar.
You consumed some energy in the house before it ever reached the smud meter so they don t have any record of it.
After more than 14 successful years sandbar solar maintains its position as the most established solar company in santa cruz.
They canceled the proposal after a public outcry.
But i only transferred 83 kwh back to smud.
More than 28 000 smud customers operate rooftop solar panels totaling 210 mw of renewable capacity.
That s a 10 bill reduction over their energy bill after the other changes.
As seen in the attached bill my first with solar i used 670 kwh.
Smud solar customers have two important choices to make about your energy generation and use.
In march 2019 smud proposed charging its solar customers an average of 40 to 60 per month.