have your cake and eat it too: Can you hold off exporting from 7-8pm early summer and 6-7pm late summer? those are the golden hours where most ohmevents occur.this was definitely true for me and contributed to a relatively low (calculated/estimated) payout from the recent VPP events.
but without EE, my true-up is going to be ~$1200 vs. ~$200. so it seems like 6 of one and 1/2 dozen of the other EE vs. demand reduction programs. while getting a check would be nice i'd rather make sure my true-up is sane. at least i don't have to rely on a 3rd party to get that money.
how do you time your exports? i wish there was an arbitrage button where you set your reserve and tesla app will dump your PW contents near the end of peak period and still keep you drawing from pw through the rest of peak period down to your reserve.