Recent content by Tim-in-CA

Zoning!! Unless you are super rural, no city is going to let you erect a turbine in your yard

Check the messages icon in your Tesla app

Same here. Pretty quick for Tesla!

Yea, I found the same thing. I couldn't set the date correctly until I changed the year first! This was on iOS. No idea why they need birthdate to send $$$. I hate giving extra info for companies to collect!!!

Just got the following email from Tesla: Payout Available Congratulations on a successful year as part of a Tesla Virtual Power Plant! Your incentive payment for the 2023 season has been credited to your Tesla account within the Tesla App in the amount of $234.97. Please note that to collect...

I don't think anyone has been issued credit for 2023 as of yet. Unless anyone on here can confirm that they have received them.

In the Program Facts for SCE, looks like payment will be digita/ACH: https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/virtual-power-plant/sce#membership Guess we'll just have to see.

I didn’t participate last year, but looks like payment is via ACH, was a physical check sent out last year?

I have first generation Tesla inverter. I had low coolant causing inverter shut down issues as well as Arc fault caused by connection issues on the panels. Each issue took a month each for Tesla service to come out to fix.

I no longer have my Model S, but am considering X-Care for my Lucid and Rivian once they get closer to warranty expiration. Seems like there have been good experiences on here.

VPP scheduled for today as well in So Cal. Mid 70's, not a cloud in the sky. Will take the extra $2/kWh

Yep ... that just happened to me. I had to remove ALL plants that were adjacent to my house or I would have been canceled. And because I'm in a fire zone, I can't get any other HO insurance, so I had to do as the insurance company told me. My front yard is now a barren wasteland.

… and another VPP scheduled right when tonigh’s ended. Discharge is definitely controlled so reserve is hit just as VPP ends.

Do you have a link or reference for that? My output total shows 10.2MWh for 2 year old system from the App

From a warranty perspective, does participating in VPP exclude unlimited warranty coverage for pushing stored energy to the Grid (as in VPP events)?? Where can you see aggregate throughput? Is that the sum of lifetime Discharged / Charged for the power wall in the app? If so, I'm already at...