I’m on the 100% Green Free Nights with Just Energy. Have the car charge at night for free, have the powerwalls charge to full for free as well, and then any excess goes to the grid for 3 cent credit. Which works out pretty well for me.
So I ended up leaving the off peak blank. I cut the sell price altogether because it was effecting the grid charging at night in a way that made me have to still have a manual process. Once I made this change it’s been set it and forget it. It’s maybe not as accurate but it does exactly as I would expect it to.
Very strange behavior, maybe the powerwall is just confused haha.
Yep they are charging automatically. I just left the grid charge option on and since the app sees that the energy is completely free at night at 9pm on the dot every night it will bring them up to 100% automatically. Nothing special set other than the plan being blank on buy and sell for off peak and grid charge being left on.
Mine stopped discharging at 51% again, until about 4:00 am. This is the second time this week. I wonder if this is a new option because of the heat. Maybe they don't want the batteries to go too low because of grid instability. I am in the new VPP.
I signed of for the VPP. On 6/9. I haven’t seen another email or notification since.
I just signed up with Reliant Free Night plan yesterday and when setting up on the app, it recognizes the plan and fill in the details for me.
I know when I didn’t have PTO yet mine would send a little power back to the grid even with the permission to export turned off but it was very little. Are you seeing a significant push to the grid?
Idk if it’s the app or me being on iOS Beta but I can’t see these except on the web…
That’s roughly 1kwh a day so not horrible I guess however mine definitely never pushed that much before PTO. I was seeing more of a trickle here and there. Seems like strange behavior but other than going off grid I can’t see how you would be able to control it. Hopefully CenterPoint doesn’t care or you get PTO soon. Either way seems like it’s not something you have control over so I’m in the camp of don’t stress it until CenterPoint stresses about it haha. I can’t imagine in Texas summer having more power coming ONTO the grid is a bad thing hahaha!
Now the app won’t allow us to leave the off peak rate blank or Zero. So have to manually change settings in app every morning and every night. Once you do it for a week or two the algo in the system understands the behavior and you can then set up to 0% back up. And after few months you will need to train the system again
You can see my system is discharging despite off peak hours. So i need to change setting to 100% back up at night and then switch back in the morning. Will need to do it for a week and then system will adjust to this mode. The best case is to have off peak buy price to $0.00 or Blank…but unfortunately the app does not allow it
this plan states that you get credit for electricity used at night. Man don't want that...it should be straight up $0 (i.e. no charge). The rates have dropped significantly compared to earlier in the year. Even Reliant Free Nights is same rate now which is ~24 Cents for use during day. This plan is 3 year which is great, but concerned about credit based accounting/billing. We will never use up the credit received for night usage
