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No, the previous work was in the purple. There is active trenching going on in the green section now. Red is the new super charger location, 55 Race, but it’s the annex parking lot which is more like 67 race (corner or race & Yosemite). Anyways, good sign to see PGE actively working on this...

It was the entire length of Race from Alameda to where I suspect the pull box is going, so I think there is something bigger then just this going on.

Definitely saw PGE doing active trenching on Garland today. Still wonder what the Race street trenching was for during the two Months leading up to the Tesla equipment install? The Race St with was done by precision drilling company that is the primary contractor on the Tesla permits.

PGE was doing major work along Race street for several weeks (pretty sure > 1mo) from intersection of Alameda/Race to right next to the SC location. Could be coincidental, but…

I don’t have exact timelines…but Race street was getting ripped up for multiple weeks (maybe even months?) prior to fences going up in the parking lot. That was the precision directional boring work that went all the way to the Alameda. That was much earlier in 2024, I believe Jan or Feb...

Ok, hope that is not the case. Honestly…was shocked to see in two weeks (after the mass layoff) to see it go from just the main SC racks to all pedestals being installed. Let’s see…

You are correct @bmah. Looking back through permit docs…and there is definitely a transformer pad on the plans. Wouldn’t the concrete transformer pad have been laid with the general construction though? With all the conduit? It’s just dirt and tree stump right now. Does the underground...

Was wondering down Race Street a few weeks ago and saw fences up in the La Cazuelas annex parking lot. Peaked through the fence and saw it was Tesla HW (but no pedestals installed). Two weeks later I’m back and the fences are down, v4 pedestals installed. Looked up the permits and it seems...

I never received the B&W bill. Have always received the newer Blue bill…which I feel gives pretty good details (except no indication of monthly export limit).

Yes, at least there is supposed to be. Roughly based on your PVWatts calculation, and my understanding was it’s only indicated in your B&W bill (which I’ve never received). The newer detail blue bill has lots of details, but seems to not have your monthly export limits.

I don’t believe so, unless I got that incorrectly. Backup Reserve is similar, but still different concept. It limits how much you can use, and the buffer you’d keep in the case of an outage. AFAIK, when you have GC turned on, it will always aim for a 100% charge, but it doesn’t specify...

It would sure be cool if Powerwalls supported at “charge on solar”-esque setting where we could set the maximum SOC (or maybe that’s just 100%) under all sources of charge, and a lower SOC for Grid Charging. Especially for those of us in PGE land, the GC+EE can really start to add up the...

April Fools…

I never really debugged this much. Two days after this Tesla replaced one of my four powerwalls and everything started working again.

I will have a good data set to work of after this June (1st PGE true up but I think my SJCE true up doesn’t actually happen for an entire additional year after that per their “10 bill/month policy”. My NBC’s will dominate this year because of running TBC+GC+EE with 4 powerwalls. My NBC is ~=...