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    Midwest Snow w Solar Panels and Cold w Powerwall

    wow. do you also have batteries? solar working out for you? meeting most electric requirements?
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    Midwest Snow w Solar Panels and Cold w Powerwall

    here waiting for the lease of my downstairs tenants to end to have the architect come to measure and plan for renovation in earnest, probably early summer planning and construction start late this year or early next year... trying to see what I can afford, what the bank will lend, and what will...
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    Midwest Snow w Solar Panels and Cold w Powerwall

    hey here asking questions and requesting experience accounting of real world use... Anyone here in the midwest with Tesla Solar Panels and experiences with the deep freeze and the Powerwall? I hear that snow pretty much wipes out a nice sunny day for the next two weeks of solar energy...
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    Comed Hourly Plan for Northern IL, still worth it?

    i guess this is where home solar batteries are useful, despite not being able to sell back... in peak hours you can just a chunk of electric stored.
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    Powerwalls in Chicago anyone

    of course, now FaceBook is serving me all these dozens of companies that promise to install Powerwalls but also their own brand of solar panels... Panasonic, Silfab... Anyone know if Tesla Powerwalls are available to third party installers or are they reserving for their own install first, and...
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    Comed Hourly Plan for Northern IL, still worth it?

    who are you installing solar panels with? if tesla, are you getting batteries? i was trying to figure out if one can sell back battery electricity at the high rate, but apparently on in Australia, not in US.
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    IL / ComEd NetMetering +/- Hourly Price +/- Battery

    https://hourlypricing.comed.com/live-prices/ today 4pm is 8.8c, yesterday was 15.6c 2am both days still 3.5c
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    Powerwalls in Chicago anyone

    Bitslizer, what was your experience with Tesla and their solar panels + power wall? when did you install it? I'm rebulding garage, new second floor apartment, new roof shape, and Tesla basically tells me, don't bother them until the structure is built... but I'm building a garagetop apartment...
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    Powerwalls in Chicago anyone

    hello there, "impatiently waiting" for three years... you've signed a contract already? mulling over a Tesla panel + powerwall or other companies.
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    IL / ComEd NetMetering +/- Hourly Price +/- Battery

    Thank you. At this moment, Tesla Energy is bundling Powerwall with Solar Panels... i guess any other branded panels will do for the meantime then, until they activate energy sellback at timed slots.
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    Comed Hourly Plan for Northern IL, still worth it?

    hi hi, newbie here, trying to understand energy economics. will install solar panels and potentially powerwalls [or may go with non Tesla if batteries were not essential] what is your current setup? i just found out that it is 6.7c flat rate 16.2c at 5pm today 3.3c at 2am this morning do...
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    IL Net Metering and Hourly Billing with ComEd

    hi there... greetings from Logan Square. are you still on both net metering and hourly rate? who did your solar install? I'm considering Tesla Solar Panels plus two Powerwalls, 8.5kwh system for my rehab. currently flat rate is at 6.7c, which is what I have. current hourly rate is 15c at...
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    IL / ComEd NetMetering +/- Hourly Price +/- Battery

    Hello all, newbie here, on a quest to understand a little bit more about solar panels, solar batteries, net metering and hourly pricing. Will be doing a major rehab, including new flat roofs that can get most of the south facing roof / sunshine. In my area, Tesla Solar will only bundle...
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    rehab / construction planning w Tesla Solar, not helpful

    Thank you for the reply. This is the perennial chicken and egg problem... the Installer, who is that? is this one of the official / approved installers? Are there a list of these installers? I guess if they are the approved installers, they should be able to advise on the equipment needed...
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    rehab / construction planning w Tesla Solar, not helpful

    Hello all, Chicago here. I plan to build a garage top one bedroom up from existing frame regular garage. This will have a south facing roof, from 500 to 780sqf living area. The Tesla Energy customer service rep assigned to me is not helpful at all in guiding me about planning and will not...