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there isn't a direct way to control the exports, but you can edit the price schedule to control things somewhat. beyond that you would probably have to write a script - i assume there is an API that you can use - but i haven't looked into this. having said that, i'm not sure you could put a...

this was definitely true for me and contributed to a relatively low (calculated/estimated) payout from the recent VPP events. but without EE, my true-up is going to be ~$1200 vs. ~$200. so it seems like 6 of one and 1/2 dozen of the other EE vs. demand reduction programs. while getting a check...

i had tesla do mine - i'm in the east bay. i have a sunpower system with a 5KW SMA inverter.

turns out on iphone/mac it's easier to use airdrop to send the daily files. still a pain in the butt. on a couple of VPP event days i chickened out and didn't export much and so the spreadsheet calculated a negative value for the VPP value. i just hacked those cells to return zero if the amount...

strange, my blue bill clearly says rotating outage block 50, but PGE's web tool says i am in 5G. i realize 5G might look like 50 but it is definitely a 50. i wonder which one is correct. 5G is on the list of rolling blackout blocks right now. is there any way to know what blocks they...

something of a minor miracle happened in oakland/berkeley. the air temperature is down to 85F or so. a breeze has come off the ocean so hopefully the SF peninsula and the near east bay is not straining the grid so much anymore.

normally run TBC with 20% reserve and have participated in the last 3 VPPs. today i decided it was too hairy and set my reserve to 100%. around 8PM i set the reserve to 85% and discharged a little, but beyond that i'm chicken. i see there were some big outages in livermore earlier today and now...

@dailo that is interesting, i didn't know about block 50 blocks. turns out i am on one but then according to PGE 50% of customers are on one. anyway i was more thinking that the extreme heat would cause uncontrolled and possibly cascading outages rather than rotating outages.

feelin' bad about it but i've set my reserve to 100% today. i feel like either today or tomorrow the grid could go down. ISO is predicting 48GW peak today and 51GW peak tomorrow. those have got to be records? maybe it will be OK but if too many people think like me that (admittedly small) VPP...

man, another one declared for today, 5-8pm. almost certain i'm getting nothing out of these. i guess the good news is that i can dump down to my reserve in these windows so even if i don't get any VPP money i should still maximize my NEM credits.

yeah finally my tesla app gave me a notification that there's one today; 6-8pm.

maybe - i think i will be short an hour, usually depletes from 4-8pm, and tonight would be 6-9pm.

yeah i agree, i just noticed this one basically lasts for an hour, in an hour where the powerwall is normally exporting, so this one will be worth $0 and will probably cost me since there was no export from 4-6pm. should have opted out of this one, but didn't notice until now. i didn't get any...

ok, so for my situation, generally speaking the PWs reach their reserve limit around 8pm every day, at least now in the summertime. since the event lasted until 9pm and the PWs served about 6.7KWh during that last hour, it looks like the event was good for around $13.50 to me. which is fine -...

i think the thinking is, especially if you had solar installed previous to the powerwalls by a non-tesla company, that PGE had analyzed your home and the neighborhood and approved 4kw (and nothing more) because that's what your inverter is capable of. it's almost a certainty that your...

what do the statistics in your tesla app say? the app should report to you how much solar went to the powerwall, grid or home, and likewise how much solar went to the home, powerwall or grid.

well that is good news then. but i’ve read different things here, so i guess i’m just going to have to go to the program documents and figure it all out. typically i would export about 30kwh from 3-8pm. but during this event, because it started at 6pm and it was so cloudy that all the solar...

ok thanks, so basically the same situation VPP. this is actually kind of stupid because what i am doing every day is of benefit to the grid, probably more so than just reducing consumption from time to time, but we don’t get any compensation for it. as i mentioned in the other thread EE has...

well, i asked in the VPP thread but it appears you have the answers i was looking for. sounds like OhmConnect actually credits you for exporting energy during an OhmHour then? not just reducing your demand? because i am using Export Everything during peak hours, a VPP event doesn't really get...

@charlesj hey at least they agreed to give you that 4%. they told me to pound sand and i never got it. given that i'm exporting most of my stored solar at peak time already, it seems like i won't ever get paid much for a VPP event; probably $10 or less. i wonder if it makes more sense to switch...

as @Redhill_qik mentioned it's no different than normal powerwall operation. the behavior in VPP is exactly the same as during peak time if you are on time-based control and select "export everything." the only time i've experienced any issue is when the grid goes down. we had a very localized...

i expected the PWs to last past the event, but they hit the 25% reserve right around 9PM. in retrospect this should have been obvious since normally there's some solar to export in the first couple hours of peak, and the grid output is clamped at 5.28kw. i guess normally i end up exporting from...

great. does this mean i will earn nothing from these events since i have “export everything“ turned on and am always exporting 5kw continuously from 4-8pm or so?

indeed, 5.28KW. i didn't think to check that in those few days that i was exporting 10KW. i don't know if it was a bug, or maybe they hadn't updated the export limit at the same time they enabled the "export all" feature.

2 powerwalls but only exporting 5.3KW. i think this is because my solar inverter is only 5KW and so that’s all pge has approved for export. there were a few days after the “export everything” feature appeared where my system exported 10kw, but that ended pretty quick.

no export over here where ordinarily it would have started at 4PM. of course because of the clouds my powerwalls are still not full. i agree that this is somewhat suboptimal - if the event lasts from 6-9pm then i can only export 15KWh during the event. that's less than the normal ~20kwh i...

well there's still the matter of the ITC. not really sure if we should ever grid charge if the ITC was taken. don't want to find out the hard way that i shouldn't have been!

same questions as @swedge but i guess we are going to find out. the thing that sucks is that it's very cloudy today and i ran my powerwalls down to 25% last night. but if the event doesn't start discharging till 6PM then i'll probably reach 100% before then.

i’m not convinced it is a good choice given ford’s recent quality problems, but i was going to put an order in for a mach-e…

one thing i noticed when installing the powerwalls is that there was a PTO request form under NEM1 and one under NEM2 (at the time there was some thinking that switching to NEM2 would reset the clock on EV-A grandfathering, but that turned out not to be true.). i had asked tesla to provide me...

indeed the weather has sucked these last couple of days and we are all set for another foggy 4th of july. so yeah, haven't learned much. i am reluctant to use grid charging (outside of storm watch) because of the ITC. but i did try it one cloudy day and saw similar behavior as you have...

it's just PVOutput - all the battery data goes into the extended parameters. it's not the greatest since PVOutput doesn't really understand storage at all; the extended parameters are all just advisory data. this is why i had to create another system that just watches the meter (via an Eagle)...

i hadn't considered that - i was approved for the VPP a few days ago, so maybe that accounts for the change. i think i like it better with the export limit.

for me, with the fog around here, in the summer my solar production is often gone by 5-6pm. i am also on EV2-A. maybe my PWs were actually misbehaving because i never saw a taper down. here is what happened when i let it run without switching modes: the reserve was set to 30% on that day...

duh, you are absolutely right about this. i need to go see what size breaker is between the PW and main panel. probably similar. what is SW_EOC? is this something visible in the API? i'm just hoping the thing becomes more responsive to EE/ES changes again because if it takes 20min to respond...

solar + PW = 12KW seems to be what's happening; as solar output drops the PWs increase but i don't think i've ever seen more than 10KW from the powerwalls. what's funny about this is that 12KW seems to be some magic (hardcoded?) number. in theory i have 200A service and 12KW is 50A @ 240V so...

need to automate this but for the last couple of weeks i have been manually toggling export everything and solar only to export some stored solar during peak but still have enough charge to get thru the 4PM-12AM period w/o drawing from the grid. i have a 2 Powerwall system. i've seen some weird...

my application was approved a couple days back. was expecting trouble since the name on my tesla account is different than the PGE account, but then again i was added as an authorized user to the PGE account back in 2015 so maybe that's why it all went thru automagically. with ~1200 homes each...

true, though in theory the federal ITC is incompatible with grid charging. and in the end you can’t export more power than pge estimates you can generate with your PV plant. not sure what the rules are when you only have storage. for me the difference between having the powerwall satisfy the...

the payback horizon calcs for my PV system (installed in 2015) are definitely out of date. it's true that the huge hit that EV2A represents to the PV payback has to be calculated against the rise in E1/EV/EV2A and i only did that calc in 2015. the horizon was something like 11 years at the time...

haha it showed up again an hour later and i enrolled. now i've got something else to stress about (dump the PW during peak or hold out for a VPP event?!)

yeah; since being put on EV2-A (NEM1) my true-ups went from +/- $200 per year to about +$600 per year. without the powerwall, i calculate that it would be something like $1600 per year. so the PW gets me (for now) $1k per year and so that's something like a 22 year payback. and of course the...

weird, my iOS app had that VPP line item the other day... and i just went in now and checked and it is gone. what's that about? thought i was enrolled but apparently not?

there is also an app called "Watch Duty" for iOS that has all kinds of wildfire information. i can see that this fire is in there "Canyon Fire". no fire boundaries yet but there is an evacuation map. i'm not sure if this program exists for android.

since summer started, i had been setting my reserve (time-based) to just get thru being self-powered 3PM-12AM or something like 45% based on my usage. before "export everything" existed, this is all i could do to maximize $$. in the winter i needed to set the reserve higher (about 60%) since...

quite a long ways out, like 6.5 months - my lease matures mid december 2022. i think is is likely due to the production delays and the fact that people who are not on top of things will be very disappointed if they try to order a car at lease end. this guy was telling me that the order should...

it looks like tesla now has employees tracking lease end/prospective new lease. i got a voicemail and email from someone at tesla saying they could coordinate a new lease with this lease's end. however at this point i'm really not sure i want another tesla.

ah - you might be on to something there. my electric meter is behind a locked gate and so PGE was never able to install a smart meter on my property. they tried for years but i was never home and wasn't going to leave the gate open. it could be seen by peeking over a fence and i was happy to...

this is absurd. i was regularly using almost that much when i had a leaf EV before i had solar. no one ever contacted me about anything. they just took my $500 per month happily. maybe they decide what is "too much" based on home square footage but charging an EV has nothing to do with the size...

oh right, yeah, i checked into that a few months ago and was surprised that the lease termination will cost me $0 right now. i should check again but i have been assuming the cost will be 0 given the continued pressure on the car market. i guess overall i am needlessly obsessed with ending the...