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Pretty sure I won't be getting a 1099 since when I looked at the Incentive Claim Form for the SCE SGIP rebate, the contractor had marked our tax status as Exempt.

I don't want to pay taxes on it, nor do I expect to due to the IRS code I dug up and quoted. I was just curious whether anyone had actually received a 1099-G for their Powerwalls from their local utility for the rebate/subsidy. It was more wanting to avoid a 'please explain' audit letter at some...

We were able to get a couple of Powerwall 2s installed last year under Edison's 'Equity Resilience' program for homes that are in high fire zones and have been through the dreaded public safety power shutoffs during high wind/low humidity events. After installation, Edison paid out $26,400...

Understood, but it was the homeowner who made the decision to install the batteries, not Tesla or Edison (although it was Edison that forced the homeowner into making the decision since they can't keep the power on in the first place)....

We have two Powerwalls. Even though the Tesla Home Gateway acts like an isolation switch to ensure that the batteries don't back feed into the grid, there is a momentary transition where a small amount of battery energy can escape to the grid when the transition is made from grid to battery and...

We have 2 Powerwalls which back up 10 circuits in our home, excluding the 3.5ton Ruud package a/c unit. Each day, the batteries will run the entire home, including the a/c, between 4-9pm. On really hot 100 degree days, the batteries might get down to 40% remaining with the thermostat set at 78...

The only way it made sense for us was due to the batteries being subsidized by our local energy provider (Southern California Edison) due to their forced power outages during high winds. The California Public Utility Comission dumped about $680m into an 'Equity Resilience' fund for Edison, PG&E...

Our developer submitted the PTO application for our grid charged Tesla batteries to SCE in early August (at least according to them). A couple of weeks later, I was asked by the Developer to provide a copy of our homeowner's insurance policy. In the second week of October, SCE's insurance...

Another update. We signed the SCE Interconnection Agreement in late September. 2-3 weeks later in mid October, we got a request from Edison's Insurance Tracking Services (ITS) to add Edison as an additional named insured to the liability coverage on our home owners insurance policy. We did this...

I think you need to research SCE's Grid Interconnection Processing Tool (GIPT) application system so you can see if you can file their Form 14-732 online. https://gridinterconnection.sce.com/prweb/app/default/JwjzxWBsk0gJoubYmkBqgUAL94hRcnV1*/!STANDARD?AppName=GIPT I just had a couple of Tesla...

Quick update on the PTO progress for our grid-charged Tesla backup batteries. The contractor reached out about 2 weeks after they claimed to have submitted the PTO application to confirm the SCE account number for our account. Just over a month later, I got a Docusign of the Interconnection...

After being told that they submitted my PTO application to Edison on Aug 9th, I got an email from the installer on Aug 23rd asking me for my 'new' SCE account number. The original paperwork had been submitted to Edison last year when there were two different account numbers on my Edison bill -...

It takes Edison about a month to change your plan. We changed ours back in February when the batteries were originally scheduled to be delivered so we ate the Peak rate energy costs for 5 months until the Tesla batteries were installed. Since we have batteries, we went onto SCE's TOU D-Prime and...

When our installer submitted the Reservation Request Form for the SGIP incentive in August last year, we received an automated email from Edison's email system confirming receipt of the RRF form copied to the installer and myself as the homeowner. When the installer submits a PTO application to...

When the installer submitted the SGIP application on our behalf back in August last year, they listed the storage capacity of both batteries as 26.4KWh (13.2KWh/battery). So basically SCE's SGIP rebate is $1,000/KWh or $26,400 when the rebate should be $27,000. Yet another feather in the cap of...

For reference, I applied for the SCE SGIP Equity Resiliency Rebate in August last year. It took me until late November 2020 to get it approved (largely due to incompetence and unresponsiveness on the part of the installer who was applying on my behalf). The first install date for the batteries...

So did your utility company pay you based on the storage capacity specs of the PW2s when you applied (13.2KWh x $1,000) or the storage capacity of the batteries once they were installed (13.5KWh x $1,000)?

I have a non-solar grid charge set up too and noticed some very odd behavior on Thursday and Friday last week where the batteries appeared to be discharging into the grid! Not the home, the grid! According to my contractor who finally called me back on Tuesday, Tesla rolled out some type of...

SCE's IT capabilities has H1B written all over it Dave. When the have their PSPS power shutoff events, the mobile notifications and website updates lag behind the reality of what is going on, sometimes by a few hours.

Zabe, the irony is that Edison has spent the past two years or so installing heavily insulated power lines and new conductors on all the local poles and we still get PSPS outages. A member of the nearby Acton Town Council dissected Edison's post-PSPS report from the shutoffs we endured over...

Zabe, we got the batteries under the SGIP program to offset the constant PSPS outages that we have endured with Edison over the past couple of years. We don't have solar and they are set up to grid charge. As such, the grid is always available to the batteries if they need it. According to...

My neighbor in the Santa Clarita area has solar via Vivint with an SCE NEM plan. They added 2 Powerwalls under the SGIP rebate program and had to switch to a new TOU plan as the older NEM plan wasn't allowed with the PW2 batteries. All was going well until a few months ago when they were no...

Not sure how it works with PG&E however Southern California Edison wants their customers to be on a Time Of Use rate before they will approve reimbursement of the SGIP rebate. We had to call Edison directly and switch to SCE's TOU-D-Prime rate which is designed for EV and battery customers. The...

Just installed a couple of Powerwall 2 batteries that charge from the grid as we don't have solar. They discharge and power all the loads in the home during peak energy hours and are available to about half the home's circuits as backup power if we get a power outage (we got the batteries as...

The additional grounding rod is a requirement of NEC/NFPA 690.47 which requires two 8' grounding rods located a minimum of 6' apart

I'm not sure that is entirely correct. When the Gateway switched all loads over to the Powerwall 2 batteries for the first time during peak hours yesterday afternoon/evening, the Tesla App showed 0Kw usage from the grid. The total house load including the a/c was about 3.8Kw when the a/c was...

So I woke up this morning to find that the app now has the 'Time Based Control' option and I was able to set the price schedule for week days and weekends so that the batteries will now discharge into our backup and non-backup circuits during peak hours starting later today. The Performance menu...

And I forgot to mention that as part of the CPUC rebate application process, we were required by Edison to sign a document agreeing to discharge the batteries at least once a week so it doesn't appear that Edison is expecting them just to sit there until there is a power outage either.

I decided to get them so we can avoid the inconvenience of Edison's constant public safety power shutoffs. They cut the power at Thanksgiving and at Xmas for example and we have a well that we rely on for our water supply. We got a $26k rebate to cover their cost from the CPUCs Residential...

Thanks for responding so quickly. That seems like a pretty f'ked up software UI design on Tesla's part. By all means grey it out or make it un-selectable until the batteries are fully charged for the first time. I wonder how many 'why can't I?' support calls they field as a result of this. There...

Just got my two Powerwall 2 batteries installed yesterday. We don't have solar and it is a grid charge setup. We have the original main meter panel with the non-backed up circuits still in it. A 60 amp breaker in the now de-rated main panel brings across the grid power to the Tesla Battery...