Houston here so CenterPoint.
Some of those free night (Reliant) does not have solar buy back. And I need both to get a negative bill.
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Some of those free night (Reliant) does not have solar buy back. And I need both to get a negative bill.
Yeah only the Just Energy Group Inc. companies offer that in conjunction with a fully free night structure. I got around that inconvenience by mining bitcoin with my excess instead. My effective payback is approx $.25 per kWh instead of $.03 solar buyback.
You can click the link and then scroll down on the next page
I don't have that. Click Continue on the main page, then Accept and Continue where it shows start date, labels, etc. Click on that will ask me to add a payment method. I don't want to go further in case i accidentally change my plan.
Hmm, I clicked on the join button then on the next page (don't press the continue ) but just scroll down
DrewHou
Tesla S|3|Solar+PW
Strange! Mine is the same screen right between the sustainable energy and the customer rights. I wonder what determines when this shows. Mine updated once a month all year until recently and it stopped after showing my preview for September. Wonder if they have put this on the back burner.
DrewHou
Tesla S|3|Solar+PW
Yeah I just searched my screenshots and I have had the option to see them under that screen since at least June. It could be that it still needs time to show up.
I wondered if Tesla have a problem getting the past usage data to present to you. My data are back to Jan, the "Join" option comes and goes, I have two phones {android and ios) one disappeared while the other still showed it, now both have it, not sure if it is version related.
I’ll give some general, public detail here since it might be helpful to others, and I’ll DM you the details. Caveat on all of this, I’m somewhat skeptical regarding the long term proposition of crypto and am not an expert so take my descriptions with a grain of salt.
I was looking for a better way to monetize my excess daytime solar power so I bought a crypto mining appliance (Antminer in my case). You can “mine” lots of different things but I chose an appliance specifically for Bitcoin (SHA256) because I didn’t know what I was doing. I tried to pick a model that had a power consumption similar to my excess generation when factoring in free nights. So during the day, my solar + Powerwalls fully power the miner, and during the free period it’s powered with the grid while the Powerwalls recharge.
I kind of bought at peak pricing a couple of years ago and my payback was about 18 months. It appears to be something like a 3rd of that were I to do it again today. I started out making about $25 per day but, due to the increase in hash difficulty etc, it’s now down to maybe $12 per day. I don’t have perfect uptime; I have the miner automated to idle if the Powerwalls hit their reserve limit. So in all maybe I have grossed $10k or so, and a few thousand in actual profit over the initial capital outlay for the miner. So compare that few thousand against what one might have otherwise earned by selling wholesale to the grid.
DrewHou
Tesla S|3|Solar+PW
Anyone else noticed on the latest version of the Tesla app (iOS) occasionally there is an animation of the house image with solar zooming inward when you open the app? Almost like the house is being slammed down into place (horrible job explaining this) 
. Either way if they want to get fancy with animations I would much prefer a way to close my virtual garage door when my cars not plugged in haha.
. Either way if they want to get fancy with animations I would much prefer a way to close my virtual garage door when my cars not plugged in haha.
SteveO332
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phsoccer
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For the next week, I’m having to use a very slow WiFi connection and the animation is extremely slow and doesn’t give me as good a view of my house as before. Parts of the numbers are cut off, so I cannot tell how many kWs are going to the grid and house. I’m hoping they fix it soon.Anyone else noticed on the latest version of the Tesla app (iOS) occasionally there is an animation of the house image with solar zooming inward when you open the app? Almost like the house is being slammed down into place (horrible job explaining this)
I don't see this either. I click 'Join' but there are no details. I get the same screen as @EL0NTRK . I have more than a year of solar data in my account.
WidowMaker03TX
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