This Webpage

This website contains information from the ONCC website, board meeting updates and "heard on the street". We have no inside information and need the input from any outside source. The ONCC website had good solar info, some of it copied to this site, however, all of a sudden it went dark, final installation stopped, the electricity bills stayed extraordinarily high and the board meeting updates stopped or were vague.

The Project

The project was approved by the ONCC membership along with the $335 per member special assessment.

The long permitting process was completed with the permit issued April 5, 2024. The canopy installation began on April 29, 2024. The installation was completed on May 25, 2024, nine weeks start to finish. So far, all is well.

The project was approved by the City and SDGE after 10 months of substantially zero commucatin from the City and the solar was "turned on", March 20, 2025.

Electricity Costs

Over a year after completion the SDGE bill seems just as high as before. What's going on?

We think the electricity generation portion of the SDGE bill went down substantially, with only bad weather days and evening electricity usage on the bill. SDGE moved ONCC to CAA which is a separate but related entity generating solar electricity in the dessert. A huge solar farm. We do know that the PUC and SDGE have implemented deliver charges, to deliver the electricity to San Diego in addition to SDGE to ONCC delivery charges. It seems this is large part of the high bill.

Separately but very closely related is newly implemented demand charges. This is where the pricing comes into play, Peak, Off-Peak, Super Off-Peak and who know what else. To keep it simple the entire solar world goes dark at sundown, everyone is coming home from work, ONCC has events and meetings and so on. So the rates are much higher in the Peak time, about 4-10 pm. What does this mean to ONCC? We are buying electricity from SDGE, paying for it to delivered and so on and the solar is sitting in the parking lot resting for the day.

CCA went into effect n July, 2021 with the July bill being about twice that of before.

How does ONCC react to this madness? It's obvious a storage battery will help a lot as we won't be drawing from SDGE in the evening. However, the thinking at the time of member approval and the assessment this was not addressed. The battery cost, $100,000+most likely $150,000 or more. No funds available.

But what about the 30% solar tax credit? At the time HOAs (and nonprofits) were specifically not eligible for the credit. New tax law was is progress that would provide the credit but it was on a "direct pay" basis. After solar is complete, application is made to the IRS and a check would be mailed. This was expected to take 18 months to two years. That means ONCC would spend the $100,000 first and get the check two years later.

One member had contacts with two solar energy companies that provide solar tax credit sharing. Generally, an investor put up 15% and gets the 30% credit plus substantial other tax benefits. These are general numbers, actual numbers are negotiated. The exact numbers have not, and does not appear, disclosed to the membership.

It's been generally reported by the board that the battery cost was around $100,000. However, the battery is not working and the board does not appear to be willing to pursue this.

What is written here is all a guess derived from bits and pieces of fragmented information.

Without the battery the ONCC electricity bill will remain and and continue raise with the PUC and SDGE continued methods of added pricing (delivery, demand charges, etc.)

There is a handful of members that have been paying attention to the total collapse of the ONCC financial reporting. The long time auditor fired ONCC, the new auditor was found with bottom-fishing, Angel (ONCC general manager was deceitful and lied to the members. The latest audit report was grossly in error and reported solar at $100,00 less than the contracted cost and member assessment. The ONCC financials show totally different numbers, but also less than the contract.

The board is obviously hiding something or everything from the members.

It is believe that there is one or two members who know what's going on but are silenced by the board or otherwise not provided information.

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