Is that going to power just your aquarium?
Well if I assume 4 hours of "usable" sunlight per day on average, 4hrs x 3.24kW = 12.96kWh per day production. 500W MH x 5.5hrs + 220W T5s x 8hrs + 110W T5 x 10hrs = 5.61kWh per day on just lighting (estimate). Plus there is pumps, heating, another tank...
So yeah it's mostly for my tank, but you can apply it to your PG&E bill just look at the bottom where it says average usage per day, and see what 13kWh will do to that.
I'll be curious as to how much monthly savings you'll end up with.
My bills are not terribly high right now, I'm actually in PG&E CARE program, since I only work part time and the wife doesn't "officially" work. Basically it gives me two tiers for electricity, one at around 8 cents per kWh, and another at 9 cents per kWh, so there's no way these are going to do much to my bill, although with the new "smart" meters going in I'm sure my bill will increase. However, I got them simply due to the rebates (money) SF is literally throwing away on solar projects, and its not like I don't plan on making more money in the future, in fact I would happily pay more assuming I made a decent amount more than the reqs.
Is it too late to get in on the SF program? ~11k is not a bad incentive...
Maybe... maybe not, the money seems to dry up/get reserved really quickly, and it was dolled out on July 1, so you might be out of luck. However the 11k is only because I'm "low income" (which for SF is less than around $70k/yr!) and my neighborhood/CARE program. If you make more than $70k, then you won't get much of anything.
