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I think right front is the most sensible, if there is parallel parking street charging available on light poles. That was supposed to happen in San Francisco. It is somewhere in the Midwest that I saw, and quite prominent in Denmark.

Those are 72 kW chargers. They aren't available to NACS and never will be. They don't seem blocked from NACS because they are busy locations. There is a 250 kW Supercharger at Somerville that is not open. Just off the north edge of your map, there is a Supercharger at Suffolk Downs Target that...

Charge port location is as contentious as port configuration. My 11 year old EV has the charge port in the front. My 1 year old EV will continue to have its charge port in the left front, behind the wheel, probably for the next ten to fifteen years. Right front seems much friendlier, helpful in...

Even in California, there are areas outside of LA ;) The Supercharger that I never use in my town has 20 stalls, separate, but in the same parking lot as 6 EVgo with Tesla. Laytonville, far enough that I might use it, has 8 stalls, in the same no-amenities shadeless parking lot with three...

NEC 2023 allows EVSE on 60 amp receptacles.

My installer did all of the Physical Layout work for me. They also remapped after one of the optimizers failed. I can see the effect of shading on my set of panels which are in three locations and two 90° orientations. I also noticed what I thought was a failing panel, until I looked at that...

I am in California, subscribed to Sonoma Clean Power, a community choice aggregator (CCA) using PG&E facilities and rate plan. I participate in Tesla VPP, which triggered for a few evenings in a row, September 9, 2022. Separately, I have Enel-X JuiceBox control handed to SCP for suppressing...

"Peak", in his example, includes all of the time that the sun is shining, as you note. There is no time when the Powerwalls will charge from solar, and let the house draw from the grid, the way mine does. I don't have any delta, but Tesla follows Peak versus off-peak correctly, which doesn't...

My Android is still at 21.20.6, and I don't see a change in my "VPP Beta", but I did notice a new "Pair Phone to Powerwall", part of testing "off-grid", which required toggling the Powerwall power switch. I am served by PG&E, but billed through Sonoma Clean Power. Weird. The help screen shows...

A little buzzword marketing fluff. They don't produce any energy. They are not a Power Plant. They are a proxy to a large consumer base, able to shift their load. I would say that in California, they would be a "Proxy demand resource - load shift resource (PDR-LSR)". They are trying to raise...

I think OhmConnect is collecting the Demand Response dollars and giving you nothing but the thermostat that they need to control your AC. They aren't a VPP. They are a consumer able to shift demand, just like JuiceNet.

Tesla is the Power Plant. All of our batteries comprise the Virtual Power Plant. In Massachusetts it seems that the end user can reap substantial monetary rewards. I saw one video that claimed he had received $2000 in one year, and that wasn't even the point of the video. In California, Elon...

Those are two different products from JuiceNet/Enel-X. As I understand it, there are three products from Enel-X. The original JuicePoints is able to suppress my charging when they bid for Demand Response events from the utility. You get the $0.001 worth of JuicePoints. Enel-X gets something for...

The charging events, and Tesla VPP, are both Demand Response. You can look at California to see their plan. This isn't in the face of impending blackout. A predicted rolling blackout would actually trigger StormWatch, and allow your Powerwall to charge from the grid. This VPP is to relieve the...

I think that is the nature of the Tesla VPP. It becomes a Power Plant, utilizing your batteries. Something similar has occurred for years with my JuiceBox smart grid EV charging station. The local utility makes a "demand", and Enel-X provides "Demand Response" by suppressing charging during the...

There might be gaps in the Tesla reporting that I never see in the SolarEdge report. The SolarEdge is fifteen minute intervals, the Tesla is five minutes.

I have a WiFi extender with some LAN ports just on the inside of the wall where the Powerwall is mounted. It didn't stay connected via WiFi to that extender very well at all. I connected the WiFi to the router in another room, and it is much more stable. I don't want to poke a hole in the wall...

VPP has been live in Massachusetts for a while. I saw a Youtube Video from a guy who received $2000 last year. That's a little longer than a three year payoff, but I wanted the Powerwall anyway.

In the first week or two after install, I seemed to notice some loss of gateway access from my LAN, but the Gateway WiFi was good. I toggle to the Gateway WiFi, visit the connection page, and renew the connection to my home WiFi by selecting it from the available list. Then I could switch back...

I see nice smooth curves up to July 24th. After that, some days have a notch at different times, but most have a lot of variations. I presume it is cloud cover. Santa Rosa, CA, 38.5,122.6

I am also at 21.20.6, I don't know when, in Santa Rosa, CA, PG&E/SCP I signed up for VPP last week. I didn't receive any acknowledgement . I'm already enrolled with Sonoma Clean Power GridSavvy program. They warn that there might be a conflict, but the GridSavvy control of my car charging has...

I set up the local PW_Datalogger.py from Powerwall2PVOutput That gathers some data to an sqlite database. I can extract that to provide the simple graph I want to see. It also exposes how unstable my Powerwall Gateway connection is. On a fairly regular basis, I get several HTTPSConnectionPool...

That day includes charging my car, and some whole house AC. Those would both be optional during a grid outage. I have a separate AC in my TV room that is on the Powerwall. The main house AC is not. Last year, before Powerwalls, PV covered 71% of my usage. It would have been 92% without...

That is the motivation, and the reason for not letting it run overnight, in one line. I want to be able to use Powerwalls+PV when the sun is shining, but we have had days where the fire-induced cloud cover was thick enough to cut my PV production to less than half. I do want to live normally...

I have two Powerwalls. I have about ~25 kWh of PV output per day at this time of year. Some of my concern has to do with my prior experience, which was a ~15 kWh battery with no PV recharge. I probably have enough PV energy, certainly at this time of year, maybe not on some other days. I have...

In several grid outages prior to installing my Powerwalls, I was providing backup power to the house from an inverter connected to my Nissan LEAF. I was running essential loads in the house all day, and then shutting off the inverter at night. My refrigerator was still at 38°F in the morning...

I don't see anything about battery percentage there. My SolarEdge provides logging of my production. Tesla provides logging of my PV production as well. Tesla provides my home usage, battery usage, grid usage, and the PV production. What I want to see is a log of the current battery percentage...

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I have had my existing PV + PowerWall installation running for a little over a month. I have reviewed the available downloaded data. I have made note of the battery percentage shown on the app at a few different times of day. Is that percentage logged anywhere? Because I have TOU - Cost set I...

My last house had a covered walkway to a detached garage. 33 panels on a flat face, at what happened to be the optimum for E-7, 217°. This house has 13 panels at 156° and triple that space at 246°, but only three panels, because that wasn't optimum for production. There isn't a lot of...

I have some panels facing sorta south, and some facing sorta west, on a normal 5:12 pitch roof. Using the PVWatts program, downloading the 5 minute intervals, I can see that my west facing panels were more productive for money than the south facing panels. That is on EV-A. I would have to look...

The Corte Madera 72kW Urban SuperChargers look like they are almost ready to go.