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I think you can claim tax credit as well as SGIP rebate, also, I did not get $38K from PG&E, I got $3,500 from PG&E.

They must have some kind of SGIP on top of tax credit. I paid around $15K for 2 PWs with my solar roof a little over 2 years ago, I got 26% tax credit and surprisingly Tesla submitted SGIP for me for small scale residential (no medical equipment, not low income, not fire zone and no PSPS...

Get a skinny ball point pen with a flat end and push it all the way back and hold it for 6 seconds then release, you will not hear or feel any click. My TEG was nagging me to connect to wifi 2 weeks ago, of course it would not connect and when I tried to login to the TEG's own SSID it told me...

All the advices to the outlet side is correct, tons of V3 and clean restrooms with changing tables, not much choice for food. But you can pick up food from the old site on the west side (southbound) then drive over to the outlet to charge and take care of the little one. Keep in mind it is not...

For those waiting for PTO from SCE for more than 2 months you may want to reach out to your Tesla advisor just in case something slipped through the crack. My daughter got bored and got curious so she texted her advisor on 6/30 and asked, the advisor said something like "it is not normal to...

In general your system are fine and it is going downhill all the way from now to maybe next March. My small system saw 1.2 kW output at 6:30am and 0.2 kW at 7:30pm in May, now it is doing 0.4 kW at 7:30am and 0.1 kW at 6:30pm, so we are getting a lot less usable sunlight. Relax.

The only roadtrip we take is down to SoCal visiting our daughter after the pandemic started. I love taking 101 and 1 but it's a bit longer though we usually stay overnight somewhere halfway with destination charging and sunset dinner by the beach. If we want to rush it then 5 has lots of plan...

How much is the referral these days, $300.00 or $400.00? How much is the delay if you cancel and get another design? You just gained 4% in tax credit, so how big is that referral in comparison? My daughter forgot to use her own referral link and when she called 2 days after submitting the...

That man at your house is a union guy and he is one of those pushing for NEM3, you know that, right?

I understand your hatred towards PG&E but just want to make sure you are clear on this, PG&E has nothing to do with pension, it is the union which all the blue collar workers belong to, none of the office workers, admin workers or even software engineers belong to, as a matter of fact, these...

Autumn is the start of decline of solar production in our area, the heat in the last 10 days made it worse. I hope those trees are on your property and there are no restrictions in your county. There are several pine trees south and west just outside my fence that I wanted to nuke but told I...

If you keep getting invite to join why don't you just join then turn it off in the settings after it is approved. I don't think you will even get event notice if you toggle it off in the settings.

I think the Neurio RGM is really for Tesla's benefits if they are going to export solar outside of California since we do not get SREC anyway. The tech came this morning and put one in my inverter, it was too hot outside so I did not stay and watch what was done. He declared all completed and...

That's close to what Toyota's CEO been telling people in Japan, we will destroy the grid if everyone has an EV and plug in. Recently I've seen interviews on local news with interview with some college professors saying that EV is not sustainable and the grid is just not ready for it and we need...

My PWs were down to 20% last night so I turn on charge from grid after midnight to 40% but strangely my PWs got charged to 100% this morning. The 1 hour thing tonight should be easy.

Looks like you are good to go, I think your PV system would start powering the house from 7:00am most days year round unless you have the AC blasting that early.

Just a baseline comparison for you, I have 2 PWs, we have no AC and our daily energy consumption is only around 18 kWh. These days our PWs power the house from 3:00pm to 12:00am using about 30% or less of total capacity. I’m close to the coast so marine layer is a fact of life, the 2 PWs...

It depends on your goal and energy consumption pattern. I was switched to E-TOU-C after solar installation and stayed on it for more than a year, worked fine for me since I was on Self-Powered most of the year, PG&E would let me switch to E-TOU-D or EV2-A during that time but I did not bother...

Curious about PG&E evPulse, I don't really need smart charging schedule from them since I have my car scheduled to charge after midnight but I enrolled anyway. Anyone else did? May be they are trying to load balance the grid in anticipation of faster EV adoption in CA.

Is this related to a recent install or just random charges? Why don't you try their billing department (877-973-7652) and see if they know what it is for?

Just curious, what is your goal when you purchased the PWs? I see PWs as consumable meaning I use it as intended and I expect it to diminish in value or capacity. I used to be on self-powered 70% of the time the last 15 months but now on time-based and set peak time from 3pm-12am for house to...

I had 3 different project advisors throughout the project and they were all ok except with the last and best one, she followed up on every question I had even a month after installation. I ordered my roof and 2 PWs in Aug 2020 and got them installed in Feb 2021. I had never heard of SGIP when...

Interesting that anyone at PG&E or Tesla would promise application or rebate to anyone, I read that each developer has a cap and just being eligible does not mean you are guaranteed rebate money since most if not all general market residential customers are eligible, so just a matter of where...

Pricing on solar roof now and a year ago is a little different and higher so roof decking may be included especially it was mentioned already. They told me I need new roof decking after the tear off because they need ½ inch plywood, so it was going to cost me 8500.00 extra. I was curious so I...

Congrats! The tear off took 1 day with a crew of 3 contractors, dry in took 2 days with a crew of 4 contractors for they had to do the underlayment, replace the roof vents with those black ones and all the flashings. Solar roof took 3 days with a crew of 12 Tesla guys, they moved some of the...

You may have other problems, I have Orbi and the Tesla inverter, GW2 and Model S all connected to 2.4, but I also have tons of Apple stuff, Google stuff and Amazon stuff connected to 5.0 at the same time, no issue, no dropout.

I thought CT is supposed to be a ring clamp thing, mine is in the load center where I have my house breaker, inverter breaker and PW breaker. Mine is not the same as yours but here are pictures showing where the CT is in the load center and where it is plugged into in the GW2.

First of all, I assume you have not submitted your order and the 9.6 kW projecting 13,394 kWh annually is simply a very generic estimate without taking your location, roof and environment into consideration, so the projection may come down a lot once they start the design phase. Second of all...

I have "Export Everything" and "Grid charging" options but I have them off. The new VPP option is turned on by default and I think I will leave it on. I have CCA so I guess it does not matter who your generator is as long as you do not have other program that compensates you.

I don't see the application pending anymore, it just says "You've enrolled your Powerwall in the Tesla .......".

I would take a simple approach and gather stats on how much energy you use the last 12 months and add 10% to 20% on top of that and tell Tesla that is a system you want. A big question is whether you are 100% electric now or with natural gas for cooking, heating and water. If you are not 100%...

I'm no expert and just guessing here. Looking at the 3 line diagram, I thought MP2 and MP5 are parallel into (4) and goes into inverter 2. MP4 itself in series into (6) and MP1 and MP3 parallel into (5) and into inverter + GW making it 3 strings only. So coming down from the junction box...

As I said, wait till you get your line diagram to spot anything obvious, though I find it strange with your extra 3.8 kW inverter. June is not a good benchmark for the Bay Area because of the heatwave, my May production looks to be better than June. It is worrisome but you do not have to...

It's all about expectation, not saying nothing wrong with your system. What did Tesla quote you for estimated annual production? Sometimes if your roof is not ideal or perfect for solar then you would get a less optimal system to get the energy you ask for. I have a small system of 6.5 kW...

Password should be your GW webUI password, not Tesla account. If you did not change the default password then it should be the 5 char default password for the GW.

The most common errors you would get would be not finding the IP or bad credentials, did you turn debug on to see? If the scan comes back with the GW then it most likely would be credentials, make sure you use your correct email and password for the script. Sometimes there's a ARP cache...

If you can see in settings that it is connected to your home Wi-Fi, can you go to your router and see what IP address is assigned to the gateway (I think may be a LG device)? You then use that IP in your pypowerall script. The pyPowerwall strings method/function should return individual...

Can you see your Panels and PW in the Tesla app? If so can you go to settings/Wi-Fi? You should be able to connect it to your home Wi-Fi here, if your home Wi-Fi is hidden you can enter it manually otherwise you just select it and enter the credentials.

I only have PW2 and TEG2 so it may not apply to PW+. Before the latest versions of Tesla app you have to get close to and connect to the TEG own SSID which usually is TEG-XXX, its own SSID and password can be found inside the gateway panel, once you are connected to the TEG own SSID you can set...

My old Virtual Power Plant option just disappeared for a day then the new Virtual Power plant option showed up prompting me to apply with account and meter info. You should be able to see it soon, the only question I have is would the export count towards NEM credit?

I don't think Tesla would bother if your garage and main house roofs are not physically separated, for that matter I think you may need some physical distance between the 2 roofs even if they are separated either vertically or horizontally. But in my mind it would kind of look odd with a shiny...

Now that they cash me out I’m certain that $134.95 NEM credit will be gone from my PCE running balance and will start with my May NEM credit. Strange thing is everyone True-Up in April with PCE, and as the email from them told me my True-Up balance of $80.00 or so would be carried over to the...

My NEM balance is generation only with PCE, I pay PG&E for consumption delivery charges only and do not settle NEM with PG&E. You on the other hand have everything in the same PG&E bag.

This is the email response I got from PCE a month after my True-Up: I heard back from our billing service provider that your meter read date on 3/30 was technically your April meter read date per the meter reading schedule. At that time, your NEM balance was below $100.00 so you will not...

I just went through this with my CCA Peninsula Clean Energy a week ago and they told me I would just get $80.00 credit balance rollover but I just got a $135.00 check from them, which actually is the NEM credit balance I have a month after the annual True-Up.

I have CCA as energy provider and PG&E for delivery service. My CCA True-Up monthly on NEM debit/credit, so if you use more than you generate you pay the generation charge for that month when you receive the monthly bill, if you produce more than you use then you have a credit carryover to the...

Discover the Self-Generation Incentive Program for Residential Customers Residential customers applying for battery storage incentives must transition to qualifying home charging rate schedules [EVA, EVB, EV2A or TOU-C (Only for Medical Baseline Customers)] in order to be eligible to receive...

I take it back, I updated my iPhone 30 minutes ago and the export option showed up, went to my iPad to check and it has the export option as well, then I realized the iPad is still on the previous app version. May be it is just a database refresh on Tesla end during the last hour?

I had charging from grid option for a while already, now I see export options as well right after app 4.9.0 update.

I think any time-of-use plan is required for NEMPS2, Tesla shifted me to ETOUC from E-1 when my solar roof was installed in Feb 2021, I was on it for a year until PG&E gave me a SGIP check and moved me to EV2A, if I had turned down the SGIP rebate I could choose ETOUC, ETOUD OR EV2A. My best...