Will it be easy to delay until 2024?

[Grayson73]

If I order solar today, will it be easy to delay system completion until 2024? I've been told that to be eligible for my state's 2024 tax credit (2023 funding is depleted), I would need to have the system completed during 2024.

 

[qnzkrew]

Lol usually Tesla is pretty good on their own delaying installs as much as possible

 

[Matt-FL]

I'd be extremely surprised if you were able to order, get a design (currently taking 2-3 weeks), get the building and electrical permits, and get an install date before 2024. If you are able to, would you be interested in going to Vegas to do some gambling? You'd have to have incredible luck if you could get a system installed in less than 3 months.

 

[jjrandorin]

I'd be extremely surprised if you were able to order, get a design (currently taking 2-3 weeks), get the building and electrical permits, and get an install date before 2024. If you are able to, would you be interested in going to Vegas to do some gambling? You'd have to have incredible luck if you could get a system installed in less than 3 months.

I think this depends on where someone is. In CA and FL? Virtually no chance. Someplace that may not be as overwhelmed? No idea. OP can probably slow play it if they move faster than they want.

 

[Grayson73]

Thanks for the responses. Even though I pick a system based on $200/mo utility bill and 2 powerwalls, I can still change it later (or they may change it during design), correct? And if Powerwall 3 comes out before installation, I can switch to that?

 

[brkaus]

Thanks for the responses. Even though I pick a system based on $200/mo utility bill and 2 powerwalls, I can still change it later (or they may change it during design), correct? And if Powerwall 3 comes out before installation, I can switch to that?

Once they do the engineering drawings they won’t like change. Why not just wait?

 

[Grayson73]

Once they do the engineering drawings they won’t like change. Why not just wait?

I could, but people are saying it could take a long time so I was thinking if I order now, it might coincide with the time Powerwall 3 is available. For example, maybe system design and site assessment takes a few months and that's when Powerwall 3 is available

If I wait until it's available, it could be another 6-12 months before I actually get the panels up and running

 

[jjrandorin]

It could be that long anyway, especially if you want powerwall 3 (which is going to require an integrated system with the solar panels, and is not compatible with retrofit type installs, per Tesla).

One thing I have learned with Tech in general (which also applies to Tesla), is that never buy something DEPENDING on features that are "coming soon". Dovetailed with that, is trying to make purchasing decisions wanting "the new thing" whatever that is, and trying to time it.

I am not sure what your driver for wanting solar is, and I also am one who likes new Tech (and I work in IT), however, I dont think I want Gen 1 of Tesla *anything*. Especially not something whose lifespan is supposed to be measured in decades.

Dont get me wrong, I like Tech, and I think home batteries are cool, but I personally would not want powerwall 3s till they had been installing them for at least a few months, if at all (due to the seemingly proprietary tie in, with Tesla saying "we wont retrofit this onto existing systems").

I have 2 powerwall 2s, and I would buy these again.. If I was in the market now, and there was no actual driving date (like we had in CA for transition to Net energy metering 3), I would either move forward with powerwall 2s, or wait (months) if I intended to buy powerwall 3, to at least put "my ear to the ground" after some installs were done and peruse the internet so to speak.

TL ; DR. If the plan is to wait till powerwall 3, then you probably should wait to order instead of trying to time it such that you are going to be one of the first sets of product installed in your area for PW3.