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Let's say we have access to all those things.

2 NFC capable phones,

a credit card, and a point of sale terminal (POS)

(It's that thing you use your credit card on when you pay for something)

Hey wait!

What's NFC?

Oh, NFC stands for Near Field Communication!

It's a short-range wireless communication protocol allowing devices to establish a connection

without the Internet if they're separated by a few centimeters.

Let's get started!

This is you. You're the victim.

This is the thief. He's a bad guy.

You have an NFC capable phone, and a contactless credit card.

The thief also has an NFC capable phone, and a POS terminal.

Before the attack, the thief designs an app available on the Internet,

and the victim downloads it for free because he's too greedy to pay for it somewhere else.

But the victim doesn't know the app is infected by a malware.

That being done stealing money becomes really easy.

Whenever the contactless card of the victim comes near its infected phone,

the app sends a message to the thief.

All the thief has to do now is to bring his phone close to the POS terminal

and the illegal monetary transaction is complete!

Actually it's exactly like the victim's paying for something on the thief's POS terminal without knowing it.

But because the thief can only steal 50$ per attack and cannot perform more than 3 attacks on the same phone,

he can't exactly get rich that way. :(

But you being the victim you're still gonna lose 50 to 150$

and, let's face it, that sucks.

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Why are trans people afraid of coming out? | Riley J. Dennis - Duration: 8:49.

Transgender people, and particularly trans women of color, face high rates of violence

against them in the United States.

The Office for Victims of Crime says that one in two transgender people are sexually

abused or assaulted in their lifetime, citing studies from the International Journal of Transgenderism.

In 2013, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs found that transgender people are

seven times more likely to experience physical violence when interacting with the police

than non-transgender people.

In 2015, the NCAVP found that when transgender survivors of intimate partner violence tried

to access emergency shelters, 44% of them were denied access.

They NCAVP also found that 63% of trans survivors of hate violence knew the person who committed

the violence against them beforehand.

The report also found that most of these problems were compounded by other factors, like if

the survivor was a person of color, poor, or disabled.

It's impossible to look at anti-trans violence without also seeing the intersections with

racist, classist, and ableist violence.

In 2016, we know of 27 trans people who were murdered.

So far in 2017, we know of nine trans people who have been murdered – all trans women of color.

These murders are happening so frequently that when I wrote this script a few weeks

ago, that number was eight.

Unfortunately, statistics on the murder rate of trans people are extremely hard to come

by because so many trans people are misgendered in death and never even identified as trans.

This can happen because the media doesn't know how to report on trans individuals, the

police don't know how to deal with hate crimes towards trans people, or most commonly

because the family of the dead trans person doesn't want the public to even know that

their child was trans.

For transphobic families, their child being trans is a source of a shame for them, which

means that they'll hide it at all costs, even when their child is murdered for being trans.

Those NCAVP studies that I mentioned earlier interviewed thousands of queer people who

had survived hate crimes, and many of them said that they didn't report to the police

because they were afraid – and out of those who did, many felt that the police were hostile towards them.

In several cases, trans people who reported violence to the police actually wound up being

arrested instead of their abuser.

We desperately need more research on this.

It would be ridiculous to assert that all the anti-trans violence and anti-trans murders

happening in the US are being correctly reported right now.

Let me give you a few examples.

On January 9th, 2015, a trans woman named Papi was shot and killed by a man after she

told him that she was transgender.

Papi's friend, Tiffany, another trans woman, told the police that Papi was a trans woman

who had been killed because she was trans.

There's even video footage from the night of the shooting showing Papi presenting as

But the police spokesperson told the press, "That was a man that was shot.

It was always a man," and they said that the victim's gender identity never played

a role in the homicide investigation.

That's just one example, but it's impossible to know how many more of these there are.

And even when the evidence is clear that it was a hate crime, many states don't even

count gender identity as one of the ways to be targeted for a hate crime.

In August 2016, Rae'Lynn Thomas, a transgender woman, was shot and beaten to death by her

mother's ex-boyfriend as he called her the devil and shouted transphobic comments.

But Ohio doesn't have a statewide hate crime law for gender identity, and her murder was

never officially investigated as a hate crime.

Being transgender in the US is scary, especially if you're a trans woman of color, if you're

poor, if you're a sex worker, or if you're disabled.

These communities know that they're hated and targeted, and they've seen their friends

and loved ones get killed, beaten, and abused over the years.

Mic has a project called Unerased that tracks the murders of trans women since 2010

and is continually updated.

If you want to learn more about the stories of these trans people, you should really check it out.

They found that while the average American's risk of being murdered is about one in 19,000,

that risk jumps to one in 2,600 for young black trans women.

But without well-documented, nation-wide statistics, people still aren't taking these cases seriously.

Lots of reporting has been happening, like Mic's Unerased series, the NCAVP's hate

violence tracking, GLAAD's reporting of murdered trans people, and the Human Rights

Campaign's tracking of murdered trans people.

So far, all the evidence points towards a huge problem of violence against the trans

community, and just because there is a lack of federally collected data on this doesn't

mean that the trans community is safe.

Trans people are often terrified to come out because they know the danger it would put them in.

They can anticipate the violent reactions of their family members, friends, and romantic or sexual partners.

Lots of trans people are disowned by their parents and kicked out of their homes for coming out.

According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, one in five trans people has experienced

homelessness at some point in their life, and 20-40% of homeless youth identify somewhere

on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, despite the fact that only about 4% of the total population

identifies as LGBTQIA+.

So I think it's rational for trans people to be afraid of coming out, and obviously

for some people, it will be easier than others.

If you're white, live in a progressive area, have an accepting family, aren't living

in poverty, and are not disabled, you're probably much safer coming out than folks

who have to deal with the intersections of racism, classism, and ableism on top of coming out as trans.

I'm sure there are trans people who've had very positive experiences of coming out.

I myself have been pretty lucky, but I know that my experience isn't at all representative

of what all or even most trans people face.

The point of all of this isn't to frighten you if you're trans – the point is to

show cisgender people why trans people might not want to or might not be able to come out.

And let's not forget that coming out isn't a singular, one-time event.

After someone comes out as trans, they'll probably come out a thousand more times.

If they generally aren't perceived as the gender they are, they'll probably have to

come out to every new person they meet.

They can have been out for years, but they meet someone and have to politely correct

them when they misgender them.

When they date, they'll have to decide between telling people they're trans right away

or waiting until a few dates into the relationship.

And if they date men, they'll have to deal with the fact that men can react very violently

to a trans person coming out.

Straight men who find themselves attracted to trans women often feel like their sexuality

is being "attacked" or like they've been "tricked", and they feel like they

have to defend themselves from that.

Sometimes men try to keep their relationships with trans women secret, and if that relationship

is exposed to the public, they snap.

Men who date trans women are often mocked by other men, which can make dating a trans

woman a source of embarrassment for a man.

Of the trans women who we know have been murdered in the last few years, many of them were killed

by an intimate male partner.

Ty Underwood is a trans woman who was murdered by her boyfriend in January 2015.

He shot her as she was driving away, and then she crashed into a tree.

He publicly denied dating her even though there was evidence of them having a relationship,

leading prosecutors to believe he killed Ty when he thought their relationship would be exposed.

Even when trans people date women, though, they're not completely free from violence.

I've known a trans person who came out to a girl they were seeing, so the girl slapped

them, said she had been tricked, and stormed off.

Lots of trans people who date women have similar experiences of being mocked or attacked in

some form because of their identity.

It's just that men tend to be more violent in their reactions.

Like, almost all of the trans women murdered last year were either killed by a man or nobody

knows who killed them.

These kinds of people, the ones who react violently to finding out that someone they

like is trans or doesn't have the genitals they expected, often hide being the excuse

of it just being their "genital preference".

The thing about that is that genital preferences are not all inherently transphobic.

If you just prefer vaginas over penises, or vice versa, that's fine.

But when someone's genital preference is so ingrained in them that they have to attack

a trans person they're dating, either physically or verbally, that's clearly cissexist.

The constant stigmatizing of trans people, especially women with penises and men with

vaginas, leads to these people feeling justified in their violence against trans people.

They think to themselves, "Well, genital preferences are okay to have, so my anger

at this trans person is completely rational."

It plays into the awful anti-trans narrative that trans people are constantly trying to

"trick" cis people or somehow set a trap for them.

In reality, trans people often stress out over when and how they should tell a potential

partner about their genitals.

It's kind of a weird thing to bring up the moment you meet someone, but it can also be

unsafe to withhold that information for very long.

There's a web series called Her Story that I think illustrates this really well.

It's a fictional story, but one of the writers of the series, Jen Richards, is trans, and

the show does a good job of showing people what dating can be like for trans people.

It gets the audience to feel the fear that trans women feel when considering if they

should tell their partner or potential partner that they're trans.

So I think in the whole "genital preferences" debate, it's important to recognize that

sometimes those preferences are transphobic, and sometimes they're not.

But by constantly and loudly saying that all genital preferences are okay to have, you're

unintentionally supporting these folks who commit violence against trans people using that same logic.

In fact, "trans panic" is actually a defense that people have cited in court to justify

their killing of trans people.

In 2005, Gwen Araujo was beaten to death by four men who said that Araujo had provoked

their violent response by revealing that she had a penis.

Two of the men were convicted of second-degree murder, but somehow they were not convicted

of hate crime charges.

In 2013, Islan Nettles was murdered by a man who claimed he flew into a rage when he discovered

Nettles was transgender.

He pled guilty to manslaughter and got only twelve years behind bars.

He was not charged with murder or a hate crime.

Violence against trans people in the United States is real, and it's no wonder that

trans people are afraid to come out or to tell other people about their genitals.

Some folks like to argue that because trans people have it better here than in some other

countries, that we don't have any problems.

But hatred against trans people is alive and well, and often fueled by excuses like trans

panic or genital preferences.

I don't want to scare any trans people out there into staying in the closet, though.

Coming out is your decision and it's a very personal one, but sometimes you have to balance

that decision with your safety.

That doesn't mean it's always bad, though.

Some trans people live long, happy lives.

Our stories don't always end in tragedy, and as we keep fighting to clear up misconceptions

about us and gain better visibility in the mainstream, things are only going to get better – I hope.

Anyway, this video is a part of my Feminism with Riley series that I'm doing in collaboration

with Everyday Feminism, a website dedicated to helping you stand up to and break down everyday oppression.

Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you next time.

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Charging my EV With Solar And Changes to my Bill/Charging Habits - Duration: 16:56.

by this point most of you already know

that I have a 5.9 kilowatt hour solar

system on the roof of my house

scratch that not kilowatt hour kilowatt

it generates kilowatt hours worth of

electricity I am actually just hit my

first megawatt a couple days ago awesome

so the question I have been getting from

a lot of my viewers after posting my

first solar system tour video which was

filmed when it was really freaking cold

out wise have my electric car charging

habits changed at all

well yes considerably let's first go

back to what most people will have if

they have electric cars and that would

be time-of-use metering plans

that's where on peak during the daytime

on weekdays your rates are going to be

higher but then off-peak when electric

demand is at its lowest and also which

would also cover nights or be nights and

weekends

yeah when there's overproduction of

power which would otherwise be wasted

utility gives you a cheaper rate which

is basically an incentive to use the

power that would otherwise have been

wasted

well the utility is pretty much shooting

themselves in the foot at the moment at

least in my case now I do have time of

use power and because of what they're

doing I have actually considerably

changed my charging habits I am no

longer charging off-peak I'll get that

to that in the moment of course there's

also a flat rate billing for electrical

service as well if you have a smaller

solar setup that does not meet quite

meet your full power needs or and or you

do not create enough power to over

produce chances are you'd actually need

better off on a flat rate generation or

consumption rate plan you will probably

not get as much power if you do happen

to over produce or excuse me you will

not get paid as much if you do happen to

over produce but if your can

assuming more than you produce in the

end you might be a little bit better off

if you can manage your power wisely in

my case here's what we're going to do

we're going to plug the car in right now

today is a Friday during the daytime it

is 2:35 p.m. and in the past I would not

even fathom plugging the car in before

7:00 p.m. or letting it charge after

7:00 a.m. on a weekday but now I don't

mind let's plug into the I am down to my

last 15 miles on the car a writed range

Shazam and you know what I still haven't

changed my charge timer so I'm going to

go change that and hopefully the radio

doesn't start playing and we're going to

reach right here start charging

scheduled charging is Mable for this

location yes start charging anyways I

still have it set for 7:00 p.m. charge

start but that is no longer needed now

the reason I want Savin doing this in

the past is in the past I would be

paying 19 cents per kilowatt hour to

charge my car but in the off-peak I

would have only been paying about nine

cents right actually there's eight point

nine something something something

something something they have on the

bill so I'm going to explain why we're

going to go in the garage I have a piece

of cardboard I'm going to draw it out

for you and show you guys the map and a

copy of one of my bills now I this month

this is end of April this month bill

doesn't generate until tomorrow but I

will not be able to do this video quite

a while and I'm just getting too many

people asking me so I'm actually over

produced in the daytime and the

nighttime on this last bill and that's

due to being able to see my first bill

on solar and

my charging habits and energy usage

accordingly so let's go take a look here

is a copy of my We Energies bill now it

is a very poorly laid out and completely

confusing in terms of solar because

they're trying to confuse you in terms

of solar production how much use how

much you're getting credit for now what

you're getting paid it is so confusing

that before I even had my solar

activated I tried finding out exactly

how the payback works and the Consensus

foot from the energies and the answer I

got was just wait for your first bill

and it will be so much easier because we

actually have no Philip and clue how our

own billing works for solar so that's

what I did I waited for my first bill

and realized almost instantly I am

getting screwed now the most important

thing to take from this bill is I over

produced on the daytime so I have a zero

day time charges I did not print over

produce enough off-peak to cover all my

off-peak usage so I have a off-peak use

that I did not over produce of 342

kilowatt hours so that is what I'm

getting charged for I'm getting charged

30 dollars in 66 cents with the 342

kilowatt hour of power that I used that

I did not over produce although I did

over produce in general for the 196

kilowatt hours of peak on peak over

production yes this is sounding

confusing here's the deal if you didn't

watch my last video talking about how

the utility is screwing over customers

and this is not just Wisconsin this is

all over I'll get to that in a moment so

the important number is 342 kilowatt

hours of off-peak power that I did not

over produce enough to eliminate so

we'll take that 342 kilowatt hour which

cost me I'm being charged $30 in 66

cents for now for the 196 30.6 6 Sigma

for the hundred ninety-six kilowatt hour

that I over produced during the day time

I am getting paid or another word in

this case credited only nine dollars and

three cents credit and I pay okay now

this is how the utility used some

billing trickery now my original

understanding and the best that the

utility was able to explain to me is

that before I would get billed for

anything I would first get all the power

subtracted from my production so that

means I shouldn't have even gotten paid

yet or given or credited for the hundred

ninety six kilowatt hour nine hundred

ninety six should have been subtracted

from the three hundred and forty two

kilowatt hour because remember payback

I'm only getting this is off this is

winter season so for payback I am

getting four point six zero eight cents

a kilowatt hour but for off-peak

consumption I have to pay eight point

nine six four zero cents a kilowatt hour

so I am getting credited on peak

production half of what I have to pay

for off-peak so obviously that kind of

sucks so what I should what my

understanding was was that I would get

credited or all my power would be

deducted off of my production before I

would have to get billed so my

understanding would be three hundred and

eighty four kilowatt hours minus 196 of

over-production what a meant I only

would have had 188 kilowatt hours of

off-peak to be billed if that was the

case times eight point nine six four

cents a kilowatt hour so 188 times eight

point nine six four cents would mean my

math sucks

3:42 I screwed up somewhere here 42

minus 196 146 146 okay I'm sorry

one know how 146 must hit a wrong button

146 would have been what I did not

produce enough to cover so hundred forty

six times eight point nine six four

cents what a mint there we go

what a mint my bill should have been

thirteen dollars and nine times because

of this x87 four forty we'll just round

up so this is what I thought what would

happen I would have gotten I would have

only had to pay $13.98 66 cents you see

what they did is they separated off peak

and on peak production and consumption

so instead instead of me having to pay

this there's this I had to pay this and

that means 30 dollars and 66 cents and

then they paid me for the overproduction

at a four point six zero eight cents per

kilowatt-hour rate so that means I ended

up having to pay out of pocket 20

dollars in 63 cents does that make sense

does that make sense so far you guys are

you guys following me so they used

billing trickery and very confusing

billing tactics to get an extra twenty

dollars and 63 cents out of me no to get

what am i screwing up here okay here we

go

oh god this is so frustrating you kissed

me confused okay 36 - six - thirteen

point zero nine means they got 1757

$17.50 more out of me by billing me in

this fashion instead of subtracting all

my usage out of the production first but

now on the other hand now because my

system is just enough to basically

eliminate my my usage at least during

the summer season I'm definitely going

to be producing a ton during the winter

season I'll probably still be using a

bit more than what I'm producing but at

the same time I'm still going to be

producing more during the daytime so how

is this hurting utility well here is

what's what's happening and why is

hurting the utility yes there's some gas

candle there no there's not gas in them

they're filled with waste motor oil

the idea is to help the utility they

should really want me to charge off-peak

even though my solar system is

generating you know I could be

generating a megawatt of power during

them during the day time of it during

the month but if I'm charging at a

higher rate I mean the car can charge it

up to 20 kilowatt whereas my solar

system it's absolute max output at any

one moment is going to be 5.9 well of

course a little fluctuation but I'll

never be able to output more at the same

time using it in the car so that means

it's basically like a peak demand kind

of thing the utility wants to avoid peak

demands they want to avoid high spikes

in their usage because they're going to

have to ramp up additional emergency

generation if that peak gets too high

such as in the summertime when you got

all these air conditioners going and

their generation facilities are maxed

out and then here comes you know and

then down the line a little bit a ton of

electric car owners plugging in the

middle of the day and charging at full

power they're going they might have a

brownout blackout it seems to me what

what might be going on a little bit in

California with all the brownouts it

should be their incentive to have me

dump 90 kilowatts of power into my car

at night not during the day it's that

demand that spice of power draw so

because of this billing trickery it's

actually going to cost me less or in

this case well on that last bill cost me

less because I ended up having to pay

$20 in 63 cents for that power usage

instead of $13.99 off-peak then I could

have wiped that out or if I switch my

billing for the time being to flat rate

then it doesn't matter if I generate it

at night and use it generate it in the

day use it at night since I'm on a flat

bill there is no antique and off-peak

they're shooting themselves in the foot

right now yeah they're getting a few

extra cents out of me now but in the

long run it's going to really hurt them

because now I'm going to switch all my

heavy loads to daytime yeah and use up

as much as my over production and I can

now in the case of once I have my rough

maxed out now all my off-peak generation

for solar

pretty much going to be done on weekends

and holidays because that's the only

time the sun's going to be out on the

off-peak and I guess I get a little bit

in the morning but extremely little

before 7 a.m.

I only generate maybe two or three

hundred watt hours after 7 p.m.

I might generate 3 or 400 watt hours

it's just not enough sunshine here in

Wisconsin at those times and off-peak so

it's going to be weekends but if I have

a bigger system then yeah

this is going to work out just fine

because I'll be producing enough in my

own off-peak to cover all the usage but

it really makes no difference just use

it during the day

now once Tesla finally delivers my

founders Edition powerwall 2 then things

are going to change again because now I

can have that power walk to generate or

recharge during the daytime and then

dump that power back into the house at

night so I'll basically be using my

stored daytime solar power for

everything off-peak and once I got that

set up it I can basically forget about

time of use altogether

I'll keep it because when I over produce

I'll get paid more or yeah I will get

paid more accredited more if I'm cutting

it very close on my usage and I can

pretty much use the power any time of

the day I want so I can run that air

conditioners full blast during the day

if I feel like it don't have to worry

about having an insane bill so I hope

you're able to follow this a bit and

learn a little bit about how tricky

these utilities are getting and it used

to be much better but they lobbied for a

6% increase in rates and they snuck a

whole bunch of stuff into their bills at

least here in Wisconsin back in 2014

which went into effect January 1st 2015

a lot of people were caught off guard on

that and it really really hurts and for

those that managed to get locked into

contracts before that change took place

or they're raking in a lot of money

they're getting as much as 27 cents per

kilowatt hour on peak payment because

they have to get paid whenever

back-to-back then before the change they

would get paid whatever the retail rate

was that the customer would have to pay

the utility so at the moment utilities

are kind of double dipping and but it's

still great in that last bill my bill is

still like a hundred bucks but that was

still a lot of winter you gas usage for

heating the house

and now that I have have this figured

out I'm actually charging during the

daytime and I even put the timer off I

have a deep chest freezer in my

downstairs and that was always on the

timer maximum max the coldest possible

temperature kickin at 7:00 p.m.

run all night and on weekends and then

just shut off during the daytime and

powers that peak so I got rid of the

timer

so basically care less want to use my

power now it's actually giving me more

freedom I have in the solar being able

to charge whenever I want not being

stuck to a time use plan so if you have

any questions post in the description

box below and if you didn't watch it yet

here's the other side of the cardboard

showing yesterday's video which if you

haven't watched it the link is coming up

let's put the link right here and you

can click on that and I'll take it to

the other video the prologue of this bin

so

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Charging my EV With Solar And Changes to my Bill/Charging Habits - Duration: 16:56.

by this point most of you already know

that I have a 5.9 kilowatt hour solar

system on the roof of my house

scratch that not kilowatt hour kilowatt

it generates kilowatt hours worth of

electricity I am actually just hit my

first megawatt a couple days ago awesome

so the question I have been getting from

a lot of my viewers after posting my

first solar system tour video which was

filmed when it was really freaking cold

out wise have my electric car charging

habits changed at all

well yes considerably let's first go

back to what most people will have if

they have electric cars and that would

be time-of-use metering plans

that's where on peak during the daytime

on weekdays your rates are going to be

higher but then off-peak when electric

demand is at its lowest and also which

would also cover nights or be nights and

weekends

yeah when there's overproduction of

power which would otherwise be wasted

utility gives you a cheaper rate which

is basically an incentive to use the

power that would otherwise have been

wasted

well the utility is pretty much shooting

themselves in the foot at the moment at

least in my case now I do have time of

use power and because of what they're

doing I have actually considerably

changed my charging habits I am no

longer charging off-peak I'll get that

to that in the moment of course there's

also a flat rate billing for electrical

service as well if you have a smaller

solar setup that does not meet quite

meet your full power needs or and or you

do not create enough power to over

produce chances are you'd actually need

better off on a flat rate generation or

consumption rate plan you will probably

not get as much power if you do happen

to over produce or excuse me you will

not get paid as much if you do happen to

over produce but if your can

assuming more than you produce in the

end you might be a little bit better off

if you can manage your power wisely in

my case here's what we're going to do

we're going to plug the car in right now

today is a Friday during the daytime it

is 2:35 p.m. and in the past I would not

even fathom plugging the car in before

7:00 p.m. or letting it charge after

7:00 a.m. on a weekday but now I don't

mind let's plug into the I am down to my

last 15 miles on the car a writed range

Shazam and you know what I still haven't

changed my charge timer so I'm going to

go change that and hopefully the radio

doesn't start playing and we're going to

reach right here start charging

scheduled charging is Mable for this

location yes start charging anyways I

still have it set for 7:00 p.m. charge

start but that is no longer needed now

the reason I want Savin doing this in

the past is in the past I would be

paying 19 cents per kilowatt hour to

charge my car but in the off-peak I

would have only been paying about nine

cents right actually there's eight point

nine something something something

something something they have on the

bill so I'm going to explain why we're

going to go in the garage I have a piece

of cardboard I'm going to draw it out

for you and show you guys the map and a

copy of one of my bills now I this month

this is end of April this month bill

doesn't generate until tomorrow but I

will not be able to do this video quite

a while and I'm just getting too many

people asking me so I'm actually over

produced in the daytime and the

nighttime on this last bill and that's

due to being able to see my first bill

on solar and

my charging habits and energy usage

accordingly so let's go take a look here

is a copy of my We Energies bill now it

is a very poorly laid out and completely

confusing in terms of solar because

they're trying to confuse you in terms

of solar production how much use how

much you're getting credit for now what

you're getting paid it is so confusing

that before I even had my solar

activated I tried finding out exactly

how the payback works and the Consensus

foot from the energies and the answer I

got was just wait for your first bill

and it will be so much easier because we

actually have no Philip and clue how our

own billing works for solar so that's

what I did I waited for my first bill

and realized almost instantly I am

getting screwed now the most important

thing to take from this bill is I over

produced on the daytime so I have a zero

day time charges I did not print over

produce enough off-peak to cover all my

off-peak usage so I have a off-peak use

that I did not over produce of 342

kilowatt hours so that is what I'm

getting charged for I'm getting charged

30 dollars in 66 cents with the 342

kilowatt hour of power that I used that

I did not over produce although I did

over produce in general for the 196

kilowatt hours of peak on peak over

production yes this is sounding

confusing here's the deal if you didn't

watch my last video talking about how

the utility is screwing over customers

and this is not just Wisconsin this is

all over I'll get to that in a moment so

the important number is 342 kilowatt

hours of off-peak power that I did not

over produce enough to eliminate so

we'll take that 342 kilowatt hour which

cost me I'm being charged $30 in 66

cents for now for the 196 30.6 6 Sigma

for the hundred ninety-six kilowatt hour

that I over produced during the day time

I am getting paid or another word in

this case credited only nine dollars and

three cents credit and I pay okay now

this is how the utility used some

billing trickery now my original

understanding and the best that the

utility was able to explain to me is

that before I would get billed for

anything I would first get all the power

subtracted from my production so that

means I shouldn't have even gotten paid

yet or given or credited for the hundred

ninety six kilowatt hour nine hundred

ninety six should have been subtracted

from the three hundred and forty two

kilowatt hour because remember payback

I'm only getting this is off this is

winter season so for payback I am

getting four point six zero eight cents

a kilowatt hour but for off-peak

consumption I have to pay eight point

nine six four zero cents a kilowatt hour

so I am getting credited on peak

production half of what I have to pay

for off-peak so obviously that kind of

sucks so what I should what my

understanding was was that I would get

credited or all my power would be

deducted off of my production before I

would have to get billed so my

understanding would be three hundred and

eighty four kilowatt hours minus 196 of

over-production what a meant I only

would have had 188 kilowatt hours of

off-peak to be billed if that was the

case times eight point nine six four

cents a kilowatt hour so 188 times eight

point nine six four cents would mean my

math sucks

3:42 I screwed up somewhere here 42

minus 196 146 146 okay I'm sorry

one know how 146 must hit a wrong button

146 would have been what I did not

produce enough to cover so hundred forty

six times eight point nine six four

cents what a mint there we go

what a mint my bill should have been

thirteen dollars and nine times because

of this x87 four forty we'll just round

up so this is what I thought what would

happen I would have gotten I would have

only had to pay $13.98 66 cents you see

what they did is they separated off peak

and on peak production and consumption

so instead instead of me having to pay

this there's this I had to pay this and

that means 30 dollars and 66 cents and

then they paid me for the overproduction

at a four point six zero eight cents per

kilowatt-hour rate so that means I ended

up having to pay out of pocket 20

dollars in 63 cents does that make sense

does that make sense so far you guys are

you guys following me so they used

billing trickery and very confusing

billing tactics to get an extra twenty

dollars and 63 cents out of me no to get

what am i screwing up here okay here we

go

oh god this is so frustrating you kissed

me confused okay 36 - six - thirteen

point zero nine means they got 1757

$17.50 more out of me by billing me in

this fashion instead of subtracting all

my usage out of the production first but

now on the other hand now because my

system is just enough to basically

eliminate my my usage at least during

the summer season I'm definitely going

to be producing a ton during the winter

season I'll probably still be using a

bit more than what I'm producing but at

the same time I'm still going to be

producing more during the daytime so how

is this hurting utility well here is

what's what's happening and why is

hurting the utility yes there's some gas

candle there no there's not gas in them

they're filled with waste motor oil

the idea is to help the utility they

should really want me to charge off-peak

even though my solar system is

generating you know I could be

generating a megawatt of power during

them during the day time of it during

the month but if I'm charging at a

higher rate I mean the car can charge it

up to 20 kilowatt whereas my solar

system it's absolute max output at any

one moment is going to be 5.9 well of

course a little fluctuation but I'll

never be able to output more at the same

time using it in the car so that means

it's basically like a peak demand kind

of thing the utility wants to avoid peak

demands they want to avoid high spikes

in their usage because they're going to

have to ramp up additional emergency

generation if that peak gets too high

such as in the summertime when you got

all these air conditioners going and

their generation facilities are maxed

out and then here comes you know and

then down the line a little bit a ton of

electric car owners plugging in the

middle of the day and charging at full

power they're going they might have a

brownout blackout it seems to me what

what might be going on a little bit in

California with all the brownouts it

should be their incentive to have me

dump 90 kilowatts of power into my car

at night not during the day it's that

demand that spice of power draw so

because of this billing trickery it's

actually going to cost me less or in

this case well on that last bill cost me

less because I ended up having to pay

$20 in 63 cents for that power usage

instead of $13.99 off-peak then I could

have wiped that out or if I switch my

billing for the time being to flat rate

then it doesn't matter if I generate it

at night and use it generate it in the

day use it at night since I'm on a flat

bill there is no antique and off-peak

they're shooting themselves in the foot

right now yeah they're getting a few

extra cents out of me now but in the

long run it's going to really hurt them

because now I'm going to switch all my

heavy loads to daytime yeah and use up

as much as my over production and I can

now in the case of once I have my rough

maxed out now all my off-peak generation

for solar

pretty much going to be done on weekends

and holidays because that's the only

time the sun's going to be out on the

off-peak and I guess I get a little bit

in the morning but extremely little

before 7 a.m.

I only generate maybe two or three

hundred watt hours after 7 p.m.

I might generate 3 or 400 watt hours

it's just not enough sunshine here in

Wisconsin at those times and off-peak so

it's going to be weekends but if I have

a bigger system then yeah

this is going to work out just fine

because I'll be producing enough in my

own off-peak to cover all the usage but

it really makes no difference just use

it during the day

now once Tesla finally delivers my

founders Edition powerwall 2 then things

are going to change again because now I

can have that power walk to generate or

recharge during the daytime and then

dump that power back into the house at

night so I'll basically be using my

stored daytime solar power for

everything off-peak and once I got that

set up it I can basically forget about

time of use altogether

I'll keep it because when I over produce

I'll get paid more or yeah I will get

paid more accredited more if I'm cutting

it very close on my usage and I can

pretty much use the power any time of

the day I want so I can run that air

conditioners full blast during the day

if I feel like it don't have to worry

about having an insane bill so I hope

you're able to follow this a bit and

learn a little bit about how tricky

these utilities are getting and it used

to be much better but they lobbied for a

6% increase in rates and they snuck a

whole bunch of stuff into their bills at

least here in Wisconsin back in 2014

which went into effect January 1st 2015

a lot of people were caught off guard on

that and it really really hurts and for

those that managed to get locked into

contracts before that change took place

or they're raking in a lot of money

they're getting as much as 27 cents per

kilowatt hour on peak payment because

they have to get paid whenever

back-to-back then before the change they

would get paid whatever the retail rate

was that the customer would have to pay

the utility so at the moment utilities

are kind of double dipping and but it's

still great in that last bill my bill is

still like a hundred bucks but that was

still a lot of winter you gas usage for

heating the house

and now that I have have this figured

out I'm actually charging during the

daytime and I even put the timer off I

have a deep chest freezer in my

downstairs and that was always on the

timer maximum max the coldest possible

temperature kickin at 7:00 p.m.

run all night and on weekends and then

just shut off during the daytime and

powers that peak so I got rid of the

timer

so basically care less want to use my

power now it's actually giving me more

freedom I have in the solar being able

to charge whenever I want not being

stuck to a time use plan so if you have

any questions post in the description

box below and if you didn't watch it yet

here's the other side of the cardboard

showing yesterday's video which if you

haven't watched it the link is coming up

let's put the link right here and you

can click on that and I'll take it to

the other video the prologue of this bin

so