I'm with SVP/PG&E and just signed up for the VPP option yesterday. I apparently was approved as I received a push notification this morning for the event today. All this morning my app was showing my home's kW # as well as fleet home numbers, both of which were being updated continuously. Then around mid-day, my PWs stopped reporting data for a couple hours. When it returned/came back up mid-afternoon, my VPP event data was showing zero (neither charging nor discharging and no kW data at all). But I still had a notification that the event was still on and my system would start discharging at 4 p.m.
At 4 p.m., my PWs were at 100% which I assume would be good to go to start discharging. Instead of discharging, however, my house started pulling from the grid in order to bridge the gap from my panel's waning production in the late afternoon. I thought it might just take a few minutes for the transition to occur as is sometimes the case when the system is learning, but still nothing had changed after 5 minutes. I then tried messing with my reserve setting, which was originally set at 40%, and then I even pushed it down to zero. This did nothing as my house continued to pull from the grid. After 10 minutes with nothing I was doing having any impact on moving my batteries into discharging, I cancelled the VPP event as I have no interest in pulling from the grid at peak rates if that for some crazy reason was part of the plan. Lo and behold, after I opted out of today's VPP, my system started discharging as per normal.
As this was my first experience with a VPP event, can anyone please tell me what went wrong? What should I do tomorrow and the rest of this week assuming we'll have more events this week?