You picked up your new one electric car and you are about to load the battery at home in your garage? Question, at what times of the day agrees recharge the electric car at home network, or what are the best times to take electricity from yours counter? It depends on what contract you have with the electricity supplier which can essentially be on a “single hour” or bi-hourly rate.
If you have a “single hour” contract, you can load at any time and always at the same cost. If, on the other hand, you have a two-hour rate then it is better that you are well informed about the different times of the F1, F2 and F3 bands.
Bands F1, F2, F3, hourly electricity tariff
The hourly rates they are divided into three different bands with different prices.
- F1 is the lat first range: active from Monday to Friday, from 8.00 to 19.00, excluding national holidays.
- F2 is theresecond band: active from Monday to Friday, from 7:00 to 8:00 And from 19:00 to 23:00 and the Saturday from 7:00 to 23:00, excluding national holidays.
- F3 is the third band: active Monday to Saturday from 00.00 to 7.00 and from 23.00 to 24.00; Sundays and holidays all hours of the day.
- In the case of domestic customers, the price of energy (or price of the energy component) in the F2 and F3 range can coincide and cover from 19:00 to 8:00 from Monday to Friday, all hours of the day on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
Electricity price bands F1, F2, F3
What is the price of kWh in the two time slotse (F1 and F2-F3)? The rate is established quarterly by ARERA (Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and the Environment), an entity that deals, among other things, with tariffs on electricity, gas and water.
In fourth quarter 2021 the cost of kWh in the two bands was set at:
F1 0.21876 € / kWh
F2 and F3 0.19748 € / kWh
The energy consumed is accounted for in the bill under the item “Expenditure on energy matter”, in which there is also a fixed share of € 3.85 per month.
How to read the energy bill
As can be seen by reading one electricity bill, there are also other costs, other than “matter energy”, namely:
- The cost of transporting electricity and managing the meter
- Expenditure on system charges
- Taxes and VAT
In the example of the bill shown in the figure, energy represents only 58% of the invoiced amount.
Recently, due to the sudden cost increase of electricity, the Government, with the decree-law 130/21, has ordered measures for the containment of the effects of price increases in the electricity sector, with the allocation of resources equal to 2 billion euros, in addition to those already allocated with the decree-law 99/21 for the mitigation of the amounts of general system charges.
It was therefore possible to cancel – temporarily – the rates of these tariff components for all domestic users and non-domestic low voltage users for other uses, with power available up to 16.5 kW. Said cancellation will have a “mitigating” impact, for the typical domestic user, of approximately -11%.
How much does it cost to charge an electric car at home?
So how much is a “full” of energy for your electric car with “home” charging? Obviously it depends on the battery capacity. If we consider an average car with a useful capacity battery equal to 50 kWh, these would be the amounts of a complete top-up in the two tariff bands of the two-tier:
- in F1: € 10.94
- in F2-F3: € 9.87
When is it convenient to recharge your electric car at home?
But when is it convenient to recharge the electric car. By reloading at night, in the weekends and in holidays you save approx one euro per top-up, compared to weekdays.
Considering an average consumption of about 5 km / kWh, a car with a 50 kWh it will have an autonomy of about 250 km, with a cost of approx € 0.04 / km or, for greater clarity, approx € 4 to cover 100 km.
Electric car charging at photovoltaic home
Electric mobility will have a real positive impact on greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants only if the energy for recharging the batteries comes from renewable energy sources. The simplest solution for those who want an electric car to be recharged in their garage is certainly the installation of a photovoltaic system on the roof of your home or on a shelter to cover parking spaces.
With this solution, if you have the foresight to instantly consume the energy produced by the photovoltaic modules (self-consumption), you can recharge your electric car at no cost. Obviously recharging with self-consumption from a photovoltaic system it must happen during the day, when the plant produces energy that will be stored directly in the batteries of the electric car.
The electricity produced by a photovoltaic system and consumed directly allows you to reduce costs of the variable components of the bill such as energy quota, network charges and related taxes such as excise duty And VAT.
In this way, the investment will also be recovered more quickly, among other things today cheaper than in previous years thanks to the lower prices of the components and the state subsidies (IRPEF credit, 110% bonus).
Features new 3 kW meter features, how much does it hold up?
The new electronic meters allows, for an unlimited time, the availability of a power up to 10% higher with respect to the committed power, signed at the contractual level.
For example, for a 3 kW contract you can withdraw without time limits up to 3.3 kW. Also, if you exceed the 3.3 kW, you are given the opportunity to withdraw up to 4 kW for at least three hours. If a power greater than 4 kW is taken, the device for controlling the electricity supply trips within two minutes.
This means that you can safely charge at 16A
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