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I received my SDGE bill today for the period 09/09/2025 to 10/07/2025. I am on EVTOU-2. The bill was split into two billing periods, 09/09/2025 to 09/30/2025 and 10/01/2025 to 10/07/2025. It is done a little bit different than the prior bills when the rates changed during the billing period - likely because of the change from a Daily Minimum Bill charge of $0.402 per day to the new daily Base Service Charge of $0.79343. The introduction of the base service charge has reduced the Peak, Off-Peak, and Super Off-Peak kWh (in the EVTOU-2 tariff, do not know about other rate plans) by $0.05573 per kWh.
On each monthly bill, you were being billed the daily minimum charge for the days applicable (depending on your export to the grid for the day, this may or may not have applied), and then on your true-up bill SDGE would go back to add daily minimum charge for days with no charge as relevant. This means for someone like me with overall excess generation for the year, I would pay 365 days x $0.402, ie $146.73 for the year for the daily minimum charge. Note that NEM 1.0 users were not charged the daily minimum fee, but NEM 2.0 were affected.
The new Base Service Charge is affecting all solar (and non solar) customers, so NEM 1.0 will see an annual increase of $289.60. The increase is less for NEM 2.0 as the worst case $146.73 daily minimum goes away - so for me it's an additional $142.87 annually.
However, I was pleasantly surprised to see the Non Bypassable Charges (NBC), which bills a per kWh fee for the kWh being pulled from the grid that are being offset by NEM credits (ie your kWh put into your "virtual unlimited size grid battery") has decreased from $0.0212 to $0.0069 per kWh, so this offsets the base service charge amount.
And for non solar customers, the daily base service charge being offset by the reduction of kWh rates means that anyone using 15 kWh per day or less (450 kWh / 30 day month) will see a slightly lower bill.
Overall, in the grand scheme of our high SDGE rates, this is pretty much a nothing burger.
On each monthly bill, you were being billed the daily minimum charge for the days applicable (depending on your export to the grid for the day, this may or may not have applied), and then on your true-up bill SDGE would go back to add daily minimum charge for days with no charge as relevant. This means for someone like me with overall excess generation for the year, I would pay 365 days x $0.402, ie $146.73 for the year for the daily minimum charge. Note that NEM 1.0 users were not charged the daily minimum fee, but NEM 2.0 were affected.
The new Base Service Charge is affecting all solar (and non solar) customers, so NEM 1.0 will see an annual increase of $289.60. The increase is less for NEM 2.0 as the worst case $146.73 daily minimum goes away - so for me it's an additional $142.87 annually.
However, I was pleasantly surprised to see the Non Bypassable Charges (NBC), which bills a per kWh fee for the kWh being pulled from the grid that are being offset by NEM credits (ie your kWh put into your "virtual unlimited size grid battery") has decreased from $0.0212 to $0.0069 per kWh, so this offsets the base service charge amount.
And for non solar customers, the daily base service charge being offset by the reduction of kWh rates means that anyone using 15 kWh per day or less (450 kWh / 30 day month) will see a slightly lower bill.
Overall, in the grand scheme of our high SDGE rates, this is pretty much a nothing burger.