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Wouldn't it be based more on what the transformers and localized grid can handle than how much they will be buying back? Our neighbor was denied solar because there were too many houses on our street that already had solar. If everyone put 150% of their use household use worth of panels on the...

So just having the ability to tilt your panels to align with the winter sun angle will be enough for most people? Of course you would still need to consider the shorter total sunlight hours and weather by region (west coast rainy season is winter, so winter is also has fewer sunny days than...

Surprisingly got the storm watch notification for my area of LA County. This is the beginning of that time of year for CA. Fall season begins fire season before the winter rains begin. Warm dry offshore winds (Santa Ana winds in SoCal and Diablo Winds in NorCal) drive fires after our long dry...

What are those red circles and how do you get them to appear on the graph?

I really want to see the total eclipse solar production graphs in April 2024 when it goes from TX through New England

Here in SoCal where we were over 1,000 miles from the full eclipse we still had a good drop in solar production by about 1/4 of what it would be during the same time. 9:00am comparing today to yesterday

I would be interested to see graphs of those in the complete eclipse path

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You only get 1:1 for all grid export matching grid use. Additional export is bought back at whole sale. The -$381.52 shows the net retail value. You only get back the whole sale value of that excess production, which is $96.07. You will continue to have a negative bill until the $96.07 no...

The balance does get rolled over. Each month will be negative until the costs for those months exceed the remaining negative balanced carried over from the previous months. They will end up having about 4 to 6 months of no bill.

Interesting. My gateway doesn't have any breakers. The PW breakers are in the subpanel between the powerwall and gateway

I already decided that I am going to add about 4 more panels myself and not let my utility know. Max continuous output for each IQ7 microinverter is 240. So the most additional power that will be going back to the grid will be 960 watts, and this will only be for a short period of time. If I...

I noticed that Excessive Heat Warnings are not on the list for severe weather events that trigger Storm Watch. I am wondering why they don't include it? I know in many areas, especially my area where all power lines are underground, we are more likely to lose power during extreme heat than any...

With that said. For August, this is a lot of rain. Because it literally doesn't rain here in August. For December through March, this is a typical larger winter storm, minus all the snow in the mountains

2.96 inches at my place. We have received more during many winter storms. In fact there was at least 5 times we had winter storms drop over 3 inches at my place last winter alone. But we did have a lot of wind Sunday night as the center of the low passed over. Like I stated earlier, the...

The concern was always the desert areas. On the coastal side we saw a typical large winter storm rain total. The deserts got more rain than the coast side and some areas got their annual rainfall in one day

Nice. You too. BTW, which part of Riverside County do you reside in? If you are in desert region east of the mountains, that is the area of most concern. Some of those areas can get over 12 inches of rain. The coastal side of the mountains won't be as bad (the opposite of winter storms)...

Just to clarify, I was just informing others that it was updated at that time. I am aware of the difference. We get watches and warnings all the time for wind, flooding, winter storms, and even fires. We in SoCal even had a blizzard warning last year (my profile pic is taken at a ski resort in...

And now the watches have been upgraded to warnings

The Tropical Storm Watch has been extended into Ventura County

This watch just triggered storm watch for my system

Fist time ever that the NWS has issued any tropical system watch or warning for anywhere on the west coast

That never actually made landfall. So there still has never been a hurricane to hit CA. The closest was a tropical storm around Long Beach in 1938

And a better job with better customer service and more options

I still use the old app on an old iPad that cannot be updated.

The graphs are more like the graphs from the original APP

Yeah. They always send this. What is just as bad is when they send the notification that I am currently experiencing an outage with the possible time of restoration after the power has already been restored. Then hours later telling us that it has been restored

Off grid systems throttle solar output to match usage, I never understood why they wouldn't make grid tied systems do the same during an outage

With a full sunny day, today we will end up with a net production equal to 3 days worth of net consumption during our last 3 all day June gloom. Just need about another 20 days like today to make up for the loss of production during the last two months of May Gray and June Gloom.

Same here. Technically it was foggy until about 6:30 am.

I went directly from 23.4.2-1 to 23.12.2. Never had 23.12.1

And of course those few sunny hours lasted only a few hours. No sun at all today. Keep in mind, I live 30 miles from the coast and lived here for 50 years. Don't ever recall a May and June gloom this persistent. We will get the occasional all day June gloom, but most of the time it is just...

And for the first time in days and only the third time in over 2 months, the sun is now finally out. It took until 2:30 pm today. But at least we got some sun for some of the day.

Here in the coastal slopes in SoCal we have not seen the sun in 2 months. May gray and June gloom are in full force

We had the worst May ever. May gray all day every day. Probably saw the sun for a couple of hours for just a couple of days. Pesky marine layer.

Yes. APP: 4.21.0 Gateway: 23.4.2-1

Don't have that option. I know I did at one time, about 2 years ago. My phone did have VPP (Beta) but it was not through SCE. I think it was a Tesla thing

Where do you sign up? I do not see this option on my APP

That could have more to do with other variables from one year to another, such as the difference in the amount of energy you used and the difference in the amount of solar production. For example, this past winter was much more cloudy and rainy than the last, resulting in much less solar...

Thanks. I’m a dork. I didn’t realize you can scroll over to the right to see that option. All I saw was this.

I currently use the Tesla APP for my PowerWall. I do not own a Tesla vehicle. I was wondering how I can configure the APP for non Tesla charging. I do not see the option anywhere. No charging option. The video on their site is completely useless.

I'm still on 36.9

You can also add a very small backup battery to avoid most of those issues

Yeah. More wishful thinking on my part. My electricity and gas are separate companies. I can legally choose to not have gas and cancel SoCal gas without any legal issues. But I cannot choose to not have electricity. I will not be able to call SCE and cancel my electricity while still remaining...

Depends. For some who may be maxed out on what their inverter can handle, is easy to just add existing panels with microinverters without having to upgrade an existing inverter. Tesla powerwall already has the inverter/rectifier built in. An enphase system has a built in rectifier as well...

I would only cut ties with my electric provider only. I would still have to keep gas. All my appliances are gas. I would have to pay tens of thousands more to add 240v outlets (my house has none), upgrade the main panel for these additional breakers, and over double my existing solar panels...

I have the opposite results. My enphase APP shows more production than the gateway.

I have a similar setup. You can monitor with both APPs or just the Tesla APP. Only the Tesla APP will allow you to control the battery. And only the Enphase APP will allow you to shut off solar production. If you go with an Enphase or LG battery then you will control everything with the Enphase...

This flat rate income based proposal will be $85/month for those of us with SCE. With taxes that will come to over $100/month. If this ends up being the case I will end up adding more panels with another battery and go completely off grid.

My PW has been going into SW more frequently this year. I wonder if they changed the parameters. It used to only kick in if the warnings were directly in my area. Now SW is kicking in even if the warnings are 30 miles from my area. I have been on storm watch since yesterday for Winter Storm...