PG&E was our gas provider, I had issues with our disconnect and they made it very difficult to have the meter removed. I still have the meter but at least they fixed the leaks, there were two.

As to specifics with rooftop, I got my PTO from SMUD less than a week after the install was complete. In fact from first call to my installer to operation was less than three weeks.

SMUD doesn’t have a solar rate plan, we pay the regular time of use rates everyone else does. I believe PG&E has a solar rate plan, this was our issue in AZ and made it almost necessary to have a battery or a load limiter device (can’t remember the name of it). Basically you’d sweat through dinner because the 5 to 8 pm rate was ridiculously high. Ultimately it added cost to the system that pushed the ROI out a decade.

I currently don’t have a battery, November is looking like a net loss for us though. We’ve been operational since last January and have overproduced every month till now. We also have an EV and I just can’t see the value in home storage vs the cost per kWh of car batteries. Most backup batteries also have to be protected from the weather which adds complications for us. We’d be better off buying an old Leaf just for the battery, but the wife ain’t going for it yet.

For more specifics about PG&E, try r/solar