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Tesla Virtual Power Plant in CA
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By baseline do you mean normal grid consumption for a weekend? Or just peak extra charges on a weekend? I am also TOU-B.
I mean the baseline that is used to determine compensation from the event.
My weekend behavior is very different from week day because of all day off peak. Hopefully the event calculation takes that into consideration.
Got it. We work from home so our consumption is pretty much the same pattern all week.
Yes but if you have the time based controls and TOU-B rate plan set, you should not be using from your powerwall at all on Sat or Sunday.
The VPP baseline looks at your Powerwall usage (not home loads) and compares against the event output.
Since my PWs are on standby (other than charging) normally on weekends, I hope my baseline for today is zero.
SoCalDude
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I am trying to figure out where we would see the credit? I have participated in two events so far, but no info on what I am credited. But hey, I am doing this to save the world.
Tesla virtual power plant is rocketing up, reaches 50 MW
Tesla's virtual power plant in California is growing at a fast pace with more Powerwall owners joining. It can now output up to 50 MW.electrek.co
From the above article "Many Tesla Powerwall owners participating in the event are reporting being credited between $30 and $40 for the short event."
Has anybody actually received credit for these events?, very curious to know how much VPP is actually paying out.
I am not understanding the comment "you should not be using from your powerwall at all on Sat or Sunday". We usually draw power from the Powerwalls every day of the week to power the home and refill them every day with solar production. We usually have no draw from the grid until mid-fall.
Weekend baselines are calculated using the last four non-event weekend or holiday days, so I think the zero baseline is what you would get.
Are you on self-powered mode?
If you are your behavior will be different than mine.
charlesj
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Same here, 6-8pm.
Had one on the 1st for 1 hour. All this might pay my annual minimum charge this year.
Had one on the 1st for 1 hour. All this might pay my annual minimum charge this year.
OC event tomorrow is 6-9pm and they are offering bonuses so they must really need the help tomorrow.
Thanks for the. ISO today app. Gives a lot of interesting information
Time-based control.
The algorithm applies the PG&E rate sheet and for TOU-B concludes that using the powerwall is not financially advantageous during the winter period, and in summer on Sat / Sun (off-peak) it also does not use the PW for home loads.
I personally would love to see the power go out, so I can give these batteries a try
I personally would love to see the power go out, so I can give these batteries a try
Samsies...never got an outage to even 'really' test any of this stuff or I just wasted tens of thousands.
If you got involved they would probably say they can close Diablo Canyon right away… hahaI personally would love to see the power go out, so I can give these batteries a try
Is there anything better than Ev2A if you have solar and a powerwall and are net exporting?
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