For powerwall owners who are net exporters Ohmconnect is much more lucrative then Tesla VPP at this point.
If you do the bare minimum and set your reserve and select export everything you will quickly reach the max payout of $1 for every 635watts exported. Which comes out to about $15.74 per 1 hour event. No gaming involved.
Can you game the system? Yes you certainly can and I'm sure ohmconnect can see it very easily. (It's all about the base line) Will they care and do something about it? IDK, but I doubt it, since they will also reap the benefits of sending more energy to PGE. Will PGE care IDK if they will or not, because you're still saving them huge amounts of money and energy.
Since August 17, Tesla VPP has had a single 3 hour event. Which a fully charged PW would not be able to participate for the full 3 hours. Lets say you get credit for 24 kwh of juice for 2 PW. so 2x PW would get you $48 at $2 per Kwh
Since August 17 Ohmconnect. has had 6 events (3 x ohm hours and 3 x autoohm events). And tomorrow there is seventh event since Aug17th and it's a special one where I can get a $10 Starbucks GC , that's new .
Actual pay out for 5 events is $77 already paid to my paypal account. They are still calculating the 6th event which happened yesterday and I should get the result by tomorrow or Saturday typically.
There are ohmhours which you last 1 hour and you get a day in advance notice to opt out. And there are autoohm events which usually last 30 minutes and give you 15 or less minutes notice and rarely last upto an hour.
Key things:
ohmhours last 1 hour only (rarely 2 hours) which allows you to have a reserve after the event.
ohmevents occur much more frequently then Tesla VPP at this point. From July 14-Aug 24 there have been 20 events. $344 actual money in the bank
ohmhours have typically occurred between 7-8pm in June and July. They are now occuring between 6-7pm. Knowing what hour they occur makes a big difference. When will the next Tesla VPP event occur ????
If you do the bare minimum and set your reserve and select export everything you will quickly reach the max payout of $1 for every 635watts exported. Which comes out to about $15.74 per 1 hour event. No gaming involved.
Can you game the system? Yes you certainly can and I'm sure ohmconnect can see it very easily. (It's all about the base line) Will they care and do something about it? IDK, but I doubt it, since they will also reap the benefits of sending more energy to PGE. Will PGE care IDK if they will or not, because you're still saving them huge amounts of money and energy.
Since August 17, Tesla VPP has had a single 3 hour event. Which a fully charged PW would not be able to participate for the full 3 hours. Lets say you get credit for 24 kwh of juice for 2 PW. so 2x PW would get you $48 at $2 per Kwh
Since August 17 Ohmconnect. has had 6 events (3 x ohm hours and 3 x autoohm events). And tomorrow there is seventh event since Aug17th and it's a special one where I can get a $10 Starbucks GC , that's new .
Actual pay out for 5 events is $77 already paid to my paypal account. They are still calculating the 6th event which happened yesterday and I should get the result by tomorrow or Saturday typically.
There are ohmhours which you last 1 hour and you get a day in advance notice to opt out. And there are autoohm events which usually last 30 minutes and give you 15 or less minutes notice and rarely last upto an hour.
Key things:
ohmhours last 1 hour only (rarely 2 hours) which allows you to have a reserve after the event.
ohmevents occur much more frequently then Tesla VPP at this point. From July 14-Aug 24 there have been 20 events. $344 actual money in the bank
ohmhours have typically occurred between 7-8pm in June and July. They are now occuring between 6-7pm. Knowing what hour they occur makes a big difference. When will the next Tesla VPP event occur ????
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