My free Powerwall, from the referral program, is being installed this week; after five years of waiting!
We are installing at a home that has an existing, owned, 12kW solar array. The array is at least ten years old so I imagine it's degraded some and not really 12kW anymore.
Tesla called me and informed me that because of the size of my array, my Powerwall will not be able to charge off solar. It will be installed only to charge off the electrical grid.
The Tesla energy technical guy told me that to charge off solar, I would need another Powerwall and a new design, permits, etc.
I told them to proceed with the installation and I might add that later, knowing that it would cost me an additional installation fee. I want the "bird in the hand" after waiting this many years.
I'm not super familiar with the design of solar energy systems. Can someone explain why the solar can't just charge my PW to full and then send the additional energy to PGE net metering? I'm ok if some efficiency is wasted and not all the energy is captured while charging the PW because the inverter can't take advantage of the entire 12kW array.
We are installing at a home that has an existing, owned, 12kW solar array. The array is at least ten years old so I imagine it's degraded some and not really 12kW anymore.
Tesla called me and informed me that because of the size of my array, my Powerwall will not be able to charge off solar. It will be installed only to charge off the electrical grid.
The Tesla energy technical guy told me that to charge off solar, I would need another Powerwall and a new design, permits, etc.
I told them to proceed with the installation and I might add that later, knowing that it would cost me an additional installation fee. I want the "bird in the hand" after waiting this many years.
I'm not super familiar with the design of solar energy systems. Can someone explain why the solar can't just charge my PW to full and then send the additional energy to PGE net metering? I'm ok if some efficiency is wasted and not all the energy is captured while charging the PW because the inverter can't take advantage of the entire 12kW array.