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Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s
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Owning a Tesla vehicle. What is your average annual credit or bill? For Tesla Electric?
phsoccer
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Because I'm retired, I have the advantage of charging my car in the afternoon on solar, so that helps with my bills. So, after a little over a year on Tesla Energy, my bills were $150 in the winter months (Jan and Feb) because my pool runs 24/7 when it is cold, $30 in March, <$5 until June, -$250 total for July to September, and $100 for the fall months. This winter has been similar, $150/month, but March bill should be very low because of warm weather since I don't need to run my pool at night.
I'm putting in a couple of more PWs because I want more hours of backup and I could sell more power if I had more stored in PWs during the summer months. I'm still not sure what caused the $1.00 per kWh today.
For that that switched to free nights: when you setup time based control in the App, was there actually some sort of lag before it started behaving as you expected? There's a note in user guide that suggest that it might not work as expected for a period of time. thx
DrewHou
Tesla S|3|Solar+PW
Yep after changing it manually for a couple of nights it tends to learn. Seems to be a common experience but I don’t know why it’s this way.
Good question. Also how high is that part of the roof? 1st story or 2nd story house? Looks like it pops right on. Mine have not fell off yet. I would probably get a ladder and pop it back on.
1st story and should be accessible with a ladder. The panels seem to be working normally thankfully so I think it’s mostly cosmetic.
DrewHou
Tesla S|3|Solar+PW
Quick question for everyone that is on free nights and not using any grid power during peak.
When you go to impact under time of use are you seeing grid usage listed there even when you have not used the grid during peak?
Tesla has been telling me since June of last year that it’s a known bug and everyone is experiencing the same thing but they have not made any progress in fixing it. I want to verify that is accurate and they are not just saying that to brush it off. Below is what mine looks like even though no grid was used.
When you go to impact under time of use are you seeing grid usage listed there even when you have not used the grid during peak?
Tesla has been telling me since June of last year that it’s a known bug and everyone is experiencing the same thing but they have not made any progress in fixing it. I want to verify that is accurate and they are not just saying that to brush it off. Below is what mine looks like even though no grid was used.
It rained at my house. My wife said. Never went into storm watch mode. It’s a hit or miss with me too.
I had a trim piece fall off after a couple of years and a tech came out and put it back on, no trouble. He also did a quick system inspection while he was here.
wiltoking
Member
I’ve disabled storm watch and set reserve to 0%. For these types of thunderstorms that blow by we usually have short outages, and it won’t charge fast enough from the alert going on to make a difference. Not much to fear inside the loop vs our suburbanite buddies.
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