Recent content by ivolodin

I'm in Weston, and no, that's just PowerWalls connected to my solar array and working as a back-up for my house. No additional programs. I believe the information you were given is correct. Tesla is part of the similar program with National Grid, but not with EverSource. Although I never...

I was trying to increase my solar array at the same time as I was installing Powerwalls, but was told that I can't, since it would be over the cap that EverSource have. To be honest, it really sounds that EverSource just does whatever they want for every separate installation, and there's no set...

I've had 2 Powerwalls installed for over a year now and I'm using EverSource. So EverSource does approve them, it just takes forever. It took me about 1.5 years to get the approval for my installation. The only problem is that EverSource counts Powerwall toward the cap for renewable energy, so...

Looks like v10 started rolling out to AP1 cars earlier today. Got it about an hour ago, already installed and working. All video stuff is missing for AP1 cars, but Spotify is there.

Mine recognized Tesla at some point, but never tracked it properly, and lost it since then. I know that for some people it works well, but for me, it fails to identify mostly anything I would care about (mini-splits, appliances, etc.). All it recognized are some random things like water heater...

For Model S - in 4 years after purchase. For Model 3 - 2 years. At least that's what I've been told by support, when I called about Slacker not being able to connect in my Model S after 2 year mark. They said that it was some sort of mistake and renewed my account for another 2 years. The other...

Any news on when Eversource might join this program? Right now it seems to be only for National Grid customers.

I think in that case it would be the same hardware setup, but management would be through software. Right now there's only 3 options in the software. Backup-only (powerwall will only be used when the power goes out). Self-powered with reserve (use powerwall to offset usage up to reserve value)...

Powerwall is usually installed between the meter and your main panel (if you are backing up the whole house). If you will be backing up partial breakers, they usually install subpanel and move backed up breakers to it from the main panel. No new breakers in the main panel are required (as far as...

It only took a year and a half, restarting the project completely from the scratch, escalation to upper management and a whole lot of back and forth, but I finally got my powerwalls installed and connected! I had to drop secondary solar system, because Eversourse would just not budge... So now I...

I got a check for my Model S within 90 days. For Model 3 I was up to 100 days and sent them an email, they responded right away and said the check was coming in a week. It was here in 4 days. They seem to be very responsive to emails.

To the best of my understanding, Powerwalls don't back up breaker by breaker. They back up incoming power line to the house. As in - they sit before the breaker panel. Each powerwall can backup up to 30 amps. So if you get 1 powerwall it will not be able to back up your electric dryer (which...

This is what's bothering the most about this whole experience. Nobody seems to know anything. Information just goes missing without any traces. What's even worse, it seems like people I spoke with invent things just to keep me content, but then when I talk to the next person, they have no idea...

@jeffsutherland Try calling Tesla again, it does look like Eversource lifted that restriction few weeks ago. At the very list, I know for sure that my neighbor got 2 Powerwalls installed just a few weeks ago.

Powerwalls by themselves don't produce energy, they just store it. So you might be able to output more energy to the grid in the short period of time, but total amount of energy output stays unchanged. And even that isn't going to happen, since Powerwalls don't usually dump energy into the grid...