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Just to help clarify the process a bit from my experience:
Once Tesla gets the work done and passes the building department inspection, the team that deals with the interconnect agreement application steps in. They take all the materials and prepare the utility application. In my case that took less than a week. They will then email you an electronic form to sign. This way you know it's been done. After signing I got a completed email within an hour. The next day I got an email from my utility (PG&E) stating that the interconnect application was accepted and in process. This happened yesterday so I am just waiting for my PTO.
Turn it on so at least the PW can be charged.That’s not a great sign. My powerwalls have slowly dropped to 0% single the solar is not on yet but they are pulling 0.5 - 1.2 kWH a day from the grid. I assume/hope they are keeping themselves protected while I patiently wait for PGE.
Turn it on so at least the PW can be charged.
I don't know but why would that be. PG&E doesn't turn anything on or off. They don't have access to the gateway or other hardware except the meter outside.The SolarEdge inverted does not seem to be provisioned so getting no solar. They are coming next week to finish up a panel update. I’ve read mixed things about the inverter provisioning being tied to getting the PGE ok. Is that the case?
The inverter will work, you just won’t get reading from the tesla app and you probably don’t want to send power back to pge
the inverter is just flashing the green light. I connected to it with the SolarEdge SetApp and it says inverter was not activated. The little solarcity gateway they gave me also says no signal.
It should get sorted out next week. I’m eager to get generating!
It's Tesla so don't assume this at all.Assume these will be done in date order of customer orders placed.
See. I know many that ordered around the same time and have already been installed and some who ordered early and are still waiting.He said his order was from October 2019.
Another little surprise today after getting some new documents to sign due to the solar/PW install being split so the solar can go forward now and PWs later in the Fall. When Energy was going over plans with our city, the City came back and said we needed to upgrade our main panel. We have 200a service. Home built in 2004 and the sticker on the main panel was no longer on the box. City check of developer plans that were filed indicated the manufacturer and product that was installed, and turns out the busbar was rated at 200 also. Over the years we had some additional additions to the circuit. Given the 120% rule we need to update the main panel box to a 200a with 225a busbar (believe that was the number) to safely install our PVs. Kind of a surprise but one that neither we nor Energy knew would happen given info we had at hand. Certainly don't want a fire. Signed for the new panel update and the permitting can now proceed. Scheduling should be contacting us for a date soon. Just illustrates that surprises to your install can happen. I think I've read some other people here have run into panel upgrades as well.
I was concerned that splitting the install into 2 parts would affect layout of the PWs and other equipment since not all the components would be on hand but was assured that when they come out for the solar the whole solar/PW system will be planned for at that time for positioning etc. so layout would be done as originally hoped for and nothing to be moved later.
This is interesting especially the 120% bit. How much upgrades in the past did you add?
I am puzzled though how adding solar and battery increases the need of the main panel.
My designer implicated something similar 120% and only could do 150A mains even though I have 2- 100A in there now.
Solar sends power to the house and excess to the grid now, later to batter or to the grid.
So, I just don't see the main buss ever getting close to that 200A or even that other 80% rule for brakers, loads calced to 80% of breaker.
160A at 240V is a huge amount of power, 38,400 Watts through that buss.
That changed starting with the 2017 National Electric Code, which California adopted on January 1 of this year (and calls the 2019 California Electric Code). Center fed panels are now eligible for the 120% rule.BTW we were also told we needed to upgrade from our 200A Center Fed panel to a 200A End Fed panel (with the larger capacity busbar).
The main panel additions we made accounted for 130A--outdoor kitchen and dining pergola with heaters and a 50A circuit for our NEMA 14-50. Our oven and AC unit are also on it for another 90A. So right now with the 120% rule (200 x 1.2) we would have 20A "unused" (240 - 220).
That's not how the 120% rule works, the size of the loads don't matter. What matters is the size of the sources of power feeding the bus in the panel. For the utility, the size is the rating of the breaker. For inverters (like solar and battery), the size is typically also the rating of the breaker but may be a little less (details omitted).
So if you have a 200A bus with a 200A main breaker, you can back feed up to 40A of breakers of solar/battery. With a 225A bus with a 200A main breaker, you are up to 70A of allowable back feed. Or with a 200A bus and a 175A main breaker, you are at 65A.
Cheers, Wayne
Not sure what you mean by "power source . . . like AC". If AC = Air Conditioning, that's not a power source, that's a load.Thanks. Guess I thought the loads would matter for installing solar like for any other power source you were adding like AC etc.
No, center fed panels used to be a problem for interconnecting solar, but they are now allowed. It changed with the 2017 NEC, which was adopted in California on January 1 this year. So you may have gotten stale information when you were told that the center fed panel is problem.I get that the Center fed panels are "out" for solar now