Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

[EL0NTRK]

One system is at 62%, one is at 42% and another one is at 70%.
All generated 7 Kwh in total.
As I have no credit yet, I think today and tomorrow I will have some net consumption.
Will refill my PWs at 8pm today and preheat the house over night so it does not need to use too much power tomorrow.

 

[DrewHou]

One system is at 62%, one is at 42% and another one is at 70%.
All generated 7 Kwh in total.
As I have no credit yet, I think today and tomorrow I will have some net consumption.
Will refill my PWs at 8am today and preheat the house over night so it does not need to use too much power tomorrow.

I didn’t even think about preheating the house overnight. I do that in the summer with cooling the house overnight but never did it with heat maybe I will try that tonight. If I can stand the heat while I sleep haha!

 

[EL0NTRK]

Here is real time consumption/generation from ERCOT

Grid and Market Conditions

www.ercot.com

They predict at 8AM tomorrow we will have a shortfall in generation causing a blackout.

 

[EL0NTRK]

Just bump up my reserve level to 80% on my system so it's filling up now. I'm rather safe than sorry.

 

[Jones1]

Looks like tomorrow we will have more .

 

[Jones1]

Great temperature sensor.

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[EL0NTRK]

ERCOT just emailed to request energy conservation tomorrow.

 

[wiltoking]

Looks like tomorrow we will have more .

Yup, the sun will help tomorrow. That's the second use case I want to experience with my system, very cold but with solar production.

For the current cloudy day and cold, PW was at my 10% reserve by noon. Aux-Heating is tougher than normal heating/cooling because the 1 PW would last me a whole day in the summer without sun. Could look at setting the Nest to "balanced" instead of "comfort" to cut down on aux-heat but for today we're fine staying warm.

Just upped my reserve to 60% just to have a good buffer from here until 9m when free nights kick in. Grid seems like it will be ok the rest of the day though.

 

[cbdream99]

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Yup, the sun will help tomorrow. That's the second use case I want to experience with my system, very cold but with solar production.

For the current cloudy day and cold, PW was at my 10% reserve by noon. Aux-Heating is tougher than normal heating/cooling because the 1 PW would last me a whole day in the summer without sun. Could look at setting the Nest to "balanced" instead of "comfort" to cut down on aux-heat but for today we're fine staying warm.

Just upped my reserve to 60% just to have a good buffer from here until 9m when free nights kick in. Grid seems like it will be ok the rest of the day though.

It's colder up north here. It was 11F this morning and light snow overnight, right now is around 24F. The sun came out, once the snow started to melt, solar production starts, produced 14kwh so far. We didn't get any storm watch last night, so PW didn't automatically charge up but I set it to 100% reserve last night ... after 2021, better be safe.

 

[DrewHou]

Lake Houston 3pm update went outside to check out the state of my panels and they look good and frozen haha. Big panels doing better than my little Ring solar panel though haha. Could be worse though I am still getting about 0.6kW currently out of my solar.

 

[Jones1]

Lake Houston 3pm update went outside to check out the state of my panels and they look good and frozen haha. Big panels doing better than my little Ring solar panel though haha. Could be worse though I am still getting about 0.6kW currently out of my solar.

I went outside around 1pm to check out my panels and fix my Patio shades.

 

[charlesj]

... glad I didn’t get a gas generator I would never sleep in a blackout hahaha

Interesting and curious why the makers don't use mufflers on them.

 

[Jones1]

I’ll probably start draining my PW around 7pm. Let it charge back up to 100 at 9pm. They say. The outages could happen in the early morning. Well ERCOT says we are good.

 

[DrewHou]

Interesting and curious why the makers don't use mufflers on them.

Damn good question haha

 

[DrewHou]

I’ll probably start draining my PW around 7pm. Let it charge back up to 100 at 9pm. They say. The outages could happen in the early morning. Well ERCOT says we are good.

I trust ERCOT about as much as I trust Elon on his FSD timeline.

 

[wiltoking]

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It's colder up north here. It was 11F this morning and light snow overnight, right now is around 24F. The sun came out, once the snow started to melt, solar production starts, produced 14kwh so far. We didn't get any storm watch last night, so PW didn't automatically charge up but I set it to 100% reserve last night ... after 2021, better be safe.

Indeed, here in the “urban core” we barely hit 30F right now but it’s gonna get real cold tonight. Only managed to eke out 2.2kWh from the sun today, hope tomorrow is better. Running of the PW again right now and as soon as free nights hits, it’ll get topped off to 100%! House has kept warm at 70-72 and the wife is happy

 

[DrewHou]

Indeed, here in the “urban core” we barely hit 30F right now but it’s gonna get real cold tonight. Only managed to eke out 2.2kWh from the sun today, hope tomorrow is better. Running of the PW again right now and as soon as free nights hits, it’ll get topped off to 100%! House has kept warm at 70-72 and the wife is happy

Yeah I ended up with 3.4kWh total today probably will set my reserve back to 90-100% tonight for tomorrow and see how things go. My biggest concern is my water. Just took a meat thermometer to the water coming out my faucet and water is currently coming out at 41 degrees.

 

[GWord]

Direct Energy is going to lose their shirts on my free night hours tonight.

 

[DrewHou]

Free energy time let’s see how stable the grid is hahaha Model S at 28% gonna charge to 90%

 

[Jones1]

Pimping the Grid For Free right now.
MYP,PW & Electric Heating.