I was looking over my Powerwall graphs tonight when I noticed my battery was at a fairly low state of charge; Much lower than it usually is at this same time in the evening…
That’s when I noticed that the live graphic was showing my powerwall discharging to the grid at it’s max rate of 5.8kw.
I’d never seen that before.
It did this for almost exactly 1 hour between 8-9pm tonight, and during that same time my house was drawing 0.4kw so I know all that battery discharge wasn’t going to the house.
I’m signed up for the virtual powerplant and to help during grid events to supplement power to PG&E if they need it, but I was also told that there would be previous notice before they took power, and there was none… There was also no event listed in the event log (where they show power outtage events)
Was this actually a grid event? Did Anyone else in the VPP in the SF Eastbay (PG&E) program get one too? Would there be any other reason for my powerwall to discharge at its max rate to the grid for an hour?
Confused…
That’s when I noticed that the live graphic was showing my powerwall discharging to the grid at it’s max rate of 5.8kw.
I’d never seen that before.
It did this for almost exactly 1 hour between 8-9pm tonight, and during that same time my house was drawing 0.4kw so I know all that battery discharge wasn’t going to the house.
I’m signed up for the virtual powerplant and to help during grid events to supplement power to PG&E if they need it, but I was also told that there would be previous notice before they took power, and there was none… There was also no event listed in the event log (where they show power outtage events)
Was this actually a grid event? Did Anyone else in the VPP in the SF Eastbay (PG&E) program get one too? Would there be any other reason for my powerwall to discharge at its max rate to the grid for an hour?
Confused…
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