You can fix this: Have Tesla add a CT to this circuit and bundle it with the house CT.
When I was getting ready for the car (on a long, long waiting list), I went ahead and installed the car's Wall Connector. Then, the day before delivery, Musk announced a free year of Super Charging. Cool, but free was hard to pass up, so for a year I missed out on home charging, one of the biggest EV benefits, poor me.
You have to be a net consumer of kWh and owe the utility money at true-up in order to make use of the TOU arbitrage credits. Since you said that they took away your $400 credit and replaced it with a $70 credit, you must be a net surplus generator. That's just how it works.
West of the fault, between 580 and Skyline Blvd. further west is rugged land out to Dublin.Which is the "wrong side" of the Hayward fault?
Well, it seems like you have it all checked out. It looks like the actual shaking will be worse west of you, but for me, I do start by thinking of the distance to the fault, which really isn't the optimal way to think of it. Actually shake hazard, and escape routes are important factors.
Don't plan on going SE on 680 also. The Calaveras fault is there. It runs from Danville to Hollister.
My understanding is that once you have reached the 5 years, you can charge from the grid now, this is not advice.
WIth the caveat that I am not a lawyer so I can't be 100% certain this applies, Investment Tax Credits generally have a recapture period of 5 years (Instructions for Form 4255 (12/2018) | Internal Revenue Service, 26 U.S. Code § 50 - Other special rules). My assumption is that it's ok to charge from the grid after five years have elapsed given that the solar credit is an Investment Tax Credit.
The concern with the above reference is that Section 50 refers to "investment credit property" which it defines as property eligible for a credit under this subpart. Section 50 is in subpart E, which deals with the business ITC. While the residential ITC is in section 25D, which is subpart A.
I think this is a valid concern. I wasn't able to find any reference to recapture with respect to personal credits, though. I think the three likely scenarios are either that personal recapture works the same as business, that there is no limit to the recapture period, or that there is no recapture. I'm choosing the middle ground between the two extremes. I suspect in practice this may not be settled unless they discover that a battery is being charged from the grid during an audit.
FWIW, there's this private letter ruling regarding adding storage to residential PV: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/201809003.pdf
Yep. What I find interesting is how they try to infer intent from omission in the code:
I wonder if similar logic could be used to say that because Congress included discussion of recapture related to business credits under § 50, but omitted it for personal credits, they did not intend to have a recapture mechanism for personal credits.
I put in 2 Powerwalls that I didn't take the ITC on but I put in a 3rd Powerwall that I plan on taking the ITC for. I'm going to assume that if I don't charge them using the grid any more than 66% of the capacity (you can't charge them separately) averaged over a year that I'm meeting the spirit of the requirement. I talked to a tax expert about this and I didn't get the feeling his guess was any better than my guess.
