Tesla Solar Year in Review

Tesla just released their Recharge 2024 summaries for energy customers. Here's how we scored. 

There's no doubt that we save money with solar. We avoid paying peak rates nearly completely. Additionally, the VPP events have paid us hundreds of dollars. At year's end, we have nearly $200 worth of credit on our electricity bill. 

This is our 4th year with Powerwalls and our 13th year with solar.  

12.7 MWh, it's not quite 1.21 GW(h), but still an impressive amount. At 200 Wh per mile, that's enough to drive an EV 63,500 miles; that's more than 100,000 km.  

Our Powerwall came in very handy this year. We used them for StormWatch events, Virtual Power Plant (VPP) events, as well as time shifting our solar usage to maximize the value of our solar production. 

5.4 MWh cycled through our batteries. That's 666 and 2/3rds cycles of our 3 Powerwalls in just 1 year. We're maximizing their use with daily solar changes and nightly off-peak grid charges.  

It's not surprising that our highest energy usage throughout the day is at 5AM. We have our cars set to be charged up by 6AM. Our off-peak electricity time is from 10PM until 6AM. The Powerwalls charge up at 10PM and the cars charge automatically such that they finish just before the rates increase. 

We were off-grid for nearly all the time which wasn't off-peak. On a typical day, at 6AM when the rates increase, the Powerwalls power our home until the sun rises. Then the sun and solar take over, powering our home and recharging the batteries from the morning usage. Then as the sunsets, the batteries again phase in and take over until the rates drop to off-peak at 10PM.

I'm not sure what the Archetypes are but we ranked as a Solar Punk, whatever that means. I think they're just going for some fun labels with Trickster, Punk, and the other rankings. 

Below is our summary. I'm surprised to see that we're in the top 19%. We're in Oregon; certainly, California, Texas, Arizona, and many other places get far more solar raining down on them than we do here in rainy NW Oregon. 

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