Rebate for California PGE customer reefers

[PasoFish89]

Hey! If any of you are a California reefer living in an area unfortunate enough to be serviced by PG&E, do you and your aquarium a favor and take advantage of their battery back up/generator rebate. It's $300 towards a battery back up or generator and takes about 5 minutes to fill out the form on their website. I recently used it to buy an ecoflow and was only about $60 out of pocket after the rebate for something that will keep my tank running for 6-7 hours if I am unable to quickly switch the house over to back up generator power.

I've been super impressed with my eco flow. I have my entire aquarium running to a power strip which runs to the ecoflow. As soon as the power cuts out, it kicks in without even a flicker of the lights etc.. It's nice to have a few hours to manually transfer the house over if I'm not home when it goes down, which it does quite often where I live.

Anyway, just passing it along! Pretty nice rebate, check came in a couple weeks.

 

[KrisReef]

SDG&E.
We are currently subsidizing the demolition of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station after they bought an imported a cooling unit that fell apart inside of a year of use. Instead of getting the manufacturer to send a good unit the PUC decided that the rate payers should pay to take it all down.

 

[PasoFish89]

SDG&E.
We are currently subsidizing the demolition of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station after they bought an imported a cooling unit that fell apart inside of a year of use. Instead of getting the manufacturer to send a good unit the PUC decided that the rate payers should pay to take it all down.

I used to live down there, I remember that all going down! I really haven't followed it in a while. I see your subsidizing and raise you subsidizing 84 counts of murder that PG&E plead guilty to. Good times for utilities here in CA huh? They seem to get away with....well nevermind.

 

[KrisReef]

I used to live down there, I remember that all going down! I really haven't followed it in a while. I see your subsidizing and raise you subsidizing 84 counts of murder that PG&E plead guilty to. Good times for utilities here in CA huh? They seem to get away with....well nevermind.

My grandparents were missionaries in China when Mao and the communists took over. They told me when I was a wee lad that the first thing the new government did was to take over the utilities. We live in a desert without water or electricity available unless our government says we can have it and only if we are willing to pay the "market rate" they decide we need to pay.

Chinese Laundry?

 

[DJF]

My aquarium runs off the Ecoflow delta ultra pro with 18kwh (3batteries); I expect the ROI to be 48-60 months, just with time of use change. I’m on SDG&E. I plan to get them down to a connection fee by end of 2025 using these batteries, 400w panels and the freeing sun.

 

[PasoFish89]

My aquarium runs off the Ecoflow delta ultra pro with 18kwh (3batteries); I expect the ROI to be 48-60 months, just with time of use change. I’m on SDG&E. I plan to get them down to a connection fee by end of 2025 using these batteries, 400w panels and the freeing sun.

I wrapped up my first full year solar in august and owed PGE 75 bucks for the year. I can't believe I waited so long to do it. The break even point/ROI with an annual bill like that will be about 19 months for me. Wild what we're just used to paying I guess. Batteries are my next step, theres some tricky rebates out there for whole house batteries with PGE or community energy partners, so I hope to be able to offset most if not all of it.

Edit: I should add a disclaimer that the 19 month breakeven point is with self installed solar.