UPDATE:
NEM 2.0 status will be retained! In writing from Tesla, much more professional and thorough than the previous email. I posted a screenshot of the email in the comments below.
Powerwall+ one unit remotely disabled, both slated to be replaced May 7, these things have been shipped. Yet no one at SCE or Tesla can definitively tell me what is going on.
I’ve looked at having these powerwalls be derated from 11.5 kw output to 5.0 to match the Powerwall+ or disable exporting to grid from Powerwall completely (I use Powerwall for load shifting/high use periods/reserves bc of rolling blackouts in summer / occasional outages, etc)
Generation/battery capacity is identical, if power output on pw3’s match pw+’s this could be a simple warranty replacement like for like swap with an interconnection modification submitted, not a new application.
I just got an email from Tesla and their interconnection department saying I’d lose NEM 2.0 status. Here’s the actual quote, it’s insane.
“Findings- you will lose the NEM 2 once the Powerwall is replaced from Powerwall + to Powerwall 3.
Resolution- you can call Edison and ask them to enroll you on NEM 2 again after the new Powerwall 3 is installed. “
Oh yea I’ll just ask them to re enroll in a program that no longer exists, that I was grandfathered into, I’m sure that’ll work.
Tesla’s upper management at the Powerwall support seems to think they can derate and possibly keep my NEM status but whoever is filling out this application over at the interconnection dept (interconnection dept has NO customer facing side, you cannot talk to them directly) has plainly stated they’re gonna fill this out wrong and screw me.
Anybody have any experience here? SCE utility, Tesla directly is the contractor.