{"id":307,"date":"2012-08-20T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/?p=307"},"modified":"2012-08-20T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T22:20:22","slug":"ping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/ping\/","title":{"rendered":"Ping&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, \u00a0I&#8217;m still here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been busy with our ActiveE and have been on vacation on top of that&#8230; \u00a0I promise at least two more <a title=\"Charge It! \u2013 Great food near public chargers #3 in an ongoing series \u2013 Malibu Country Market\" href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/2012\/07\/charge-it-great-food-near-public-chargers-3-in-an-ongoing-series-malibu-country-market\/\">ChargeIt! articles<\/a> for two really great food AND charging facilities <a title=\"Charge It! \u2013 Great food near public chargers #4 in an ongoing series \u2013 Abbot Kinney Blvd \u2013 Venice, CA\" href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/2012\/08\/charge-it-great-food-near-public-chargers-4-in-an-ongoing-series-abbot-kinney-blvd-venice-ca\/\">(here&#8217;s one of them &#8211; Gjelina at Electric Avenue in Venice)<\/a>. [Here&#8217;s the other <a title=\"Charge It! \u2013 Great food near public chargers #5 in an ongoing series \u2013 Mateo Street \u2013 East side of Downtown Los Angeles, CA (Arts District)\" href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/2012\/09\/charge-it-great-food-near-public-chargers-5-in-an-ongoing-series-mateo-street-east-side-of-downtown-los-angeles-ca-arts-district\/\">Church and State &#8211; Mateo Street Charger<\/a>, now caught up for the Great Food series.] \u00a0However, trying to decide on whether to do the next<a title=\"More Napkin math, OR \u2013 Real Goods Solar and BMW\u2019s program is a REAL GOOD deal!\" href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/2012\/09\/more-napkin-math-or-real-goods-solar-and-bmws-program-is-a-real-good-deal\/\"> article on joining the Solar powered movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still haven&#8217;t received my &#8220;official&#8221; PTO, but I did notice an off-cycle close to my SCE account this past Friday (August 17) (when I logged in to my SCE account on Saturday) and followed up with a call to SCE on Saturday morning. \u00a0According to the telephone representative my permission to operate (PTO) letter went out last week and I am now generating my own energy via the Solar Panels on the roof of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to BMW and its partnership with Real Goods Solar, I was able to get a system at a bigger discount than I had originally negotiated with Solar City. \u00a0But that will have to be the subject of a subsequent post. \u00a0As well as updates to my Back of the Napkin Math series <a title=\"Back of the napkin math of last night\u2019s fill-up of 328i vs. cost of ActiveE\" href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/2012\/04\/back-of-the-napkin-math-of-last-nights-fill-up-of-328i-vs-cost-of-activee\/\">(1)<\/a> and <a title=\"Second napkin math for those that use an SUV\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/2012\/04\/second-napkin-math-for-those-that-use-an-suv\/\">(2)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As those that have followed this blog, I&#8217;m not an &#8220;environmentalist&#8221;, I just like to save money. \u00a0As long as one has a &#8220;long&#8221; view, the money savings will follow those that do things that are &#8220;environmental.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, \u00a0I&#8217;m still here. I&#8217;ve been busy with our ActiveE and have been on vacation on top of that&#8230; \u00a0I promise at least two more ChargeIt! articles for two really great food AND charging facilities (here&#8217;s one of them &#8211; Gjelina at Electric Avenue in Venice). [Here&#8217;s the other Church and State &#8211; Mateo Street &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/ping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ping&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[34,87,223,636,670,687,688,689,694],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activee","category-how-to","tag-electric-car-benefits","tag-activee","tag-comparing-gas-vs-electric","tag-real-goods-solar","tag-sce","tag-solar","tag-solar-city","tag-solar-power","tag-southern-california-edison"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}