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Found a thread about this topic with powerwalls, time to discuss without 'em!
My freshly-installed solar system is being inspected tomorrow, so hopefully I should have PTO by end of December (
), and I'm trying to wrap my head around how to make sure that I give as little money as possible to those scumbags.
System is 8.1kw, with no powerwalls. Expected generation is ~10,700kWh per year, expected consumption… honestly, I don't really know. I've been right around 9,000-9,500 per year at my old house (only 10 miles away), with heavy (essentially full-time) usage of two large-ish portable AC units during the summer. New house is about 10% smaller, with better insulation, and sometime in Q1 I'll be having central AC + heat pump installed (house already has central heat via a gas furnace but it's almost 3 decades old…) which will presumably shift the dynamic quite a lot. For the better? I don't know.
I'm currently on EV-2A in anticipation of finally getting off my ass and installing a decent power source for my car (I've been using 110 for about 8 weeks and it's paaaaaaainful and inefficient to boot, probably not doing any favors to my bill right now).
I am *hoping* to install a pair of PW2s sometime next year to cover my peak-times usage and of course give outage protection, but in the meantime:
With non-bypassable charges in play with NEM 2.0, is the strategy to minimize power consumption during the peak times to build up peak credits? I can schedule the dishwasher and car to do their thing in the middle of the night, and I tend to be up late so I could set a reminder to start the dryer late at night as well.
So… input appreciated I guess? I know smarter folks than me have put a lot of brain time into this, hoping to ride along
My freshly-installed solar system is being inspected tomorrow, so hopefully I should have PTO by end of December (
), and I'm trying to wrap my head around how to make sure that I give as little money as possible to those scumbags. System is 8.1kw, with no powerwalls. Expected generation is ~10,700kWh per year, expected consumption… honestly, I don't really know. I've been right around 9,000-9,500 per year at my old house (only 10 miles away), with heavy (essentially full-time) usage of two large-ish portable AC units during the summer. New house is about 10% smaller, with better insulation, and sometime in Q1 I'll be having central AC + heat pump installed (house already has central heat via a gas furnace but it's almost 3 decades old…) which will presumably shift the dynamic quite a lot. For the better? I don't know.
I'm currently on EV-2A in anticipation of finally getting off my ass and installing a decent power source for my car (I've been using 110 for about 8 weeks and it's paaaaaaainful and inefficient to boot, probably not doing any favors to my bill right now).
I am *hoping* to install a pair of PW2s sometime next year to cover my peak-times usage and of course give outage protection, but in the meantime:
With non-bypassable charges in play with NEM 2.0, is the strategy to minimize power consumption during the peak times to build up peak credits? I can schedule the dishwasher and car to do their thing in the middle of the night, and I tend to be up late so I could set a reminder to start the dryer late at night as well.
So… input appreciated I guess? I know smarter folks than me have put a lot of brain time into this, hoping to ride along