Recent content by brianbsl

Got the check this week. (2) PW2's in National Grid. $1450 this year vs $1565 last year but that aligns with the lower averages we had seen, my math had me at $1455, so close enough for rounding error.

I got $234 on two units, so you did better than I did. Backup-only should not impact grid services. I have no idea what happened with the winter events and they don't seem to want to reply to my emails, so I'll take it with them just sending a check at all. Its correct-ish for the events that...

We saw something similar, not ideal, but they only promise to not call events during winter storms (not during summer storms) so like you flagged this is really only on Tesla's side to resolve via Storm Watch. I did notice it seems like they are trying to bail out of the winter payments - the...

This matches what I have seen, you can predict the events by seeing the charging behavior. Odd that they do not use the VPP branding, not sure if that is an Eversource vs Ngrid thing or just when you enrolled or something.

Looks like a 2hr event today 4PM-6PM by the fact that its discharging a full 10kW. The 2hr events are great for the average. BTW no email or check from them for winter... I plan to ping them mid next week after the holiday rather than get stuck at bottom of their inbox.

Looks like there will be an event today. Here is how I can tell: 1. My unit is staying charged to 100%, not dropping down to 99/98/97 2. Under power flow then graph, if I trigger Grid services, I can see that this morning's recharge counted as grid services. Yesterday's (not a DR day, not sure...

I got a 3hr event on 1/29 and this odd 30 min event on 1/12. I emailed Tesla about the 1/12 event and they never replied. So not expecting much for this winter. Maybe $200-ish on two PW2's. No payment yet, they paid last winter at end of June, so would not worry about it until then. They...

No, you can't get the SMART incentive if your PV is under SREC.

Received my summer 2020 incentive payment today. Was for $1565 for two powerwall's, I had calculated $1563 based on the data I had exported from the app, so based on some rounding errors (probably due to the 5 min data from the app), basically exactly the same. Pleased with the data matching...

I don't understand what the PW's get you in this situation. They only holding 27kWh of power, which basically only counts in your favor once, plus the recharge and efficiency losses. Your net meter is measured on a monthly basis, the daily powerwall cycling does not help you there other than...

You get paid for the full discharge wattage of all called discharges ("grid service" events), even if you self-consume some of the power. You don't get paid for discharges that you do yourself if you have it set for self-powered mode when you discharge daily for time-shifting PV production.

Basically what I am saying is that the PowerWall discharge really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, other than calculating what Tesla owes you. So I just ignore that in my overall PV calculations. The Sense would measure the PowerWall discharge, but it can't tell the difference...

I do have a Sense but I don't think it would be able to figure this out. Its also on my "heavy load" panel which is not backed up by the PowerWall's. I basically never use it anymore. I use my Enphase monitoring for solar production and whole-home consumption (I actually have a google sheet...

Did finally get my rebate today for the Summer (Tesla sent an email on Wednesday saying they have been mailed). I got a little screwed by how I got enrolled prior to my installation, but that was something I had asked for to de-risk the program (as in, I was only willing to proceed with the...

Yes, you can both export a CSV and inside the app see a graph and sum for each source/destination. So if I go to yesterday, and choose to graph only Powerwall data, it shows me 0.6kWh. Its one of the more well-done solar app implementations (better than Enphase or SolarEdge's app's) but its...