We have 22 solar panels and one powerwall, all installed by granite state solar.

Ugh, December power generation is really frustrating. We got panels in August and I was generating 30+ KWh a day. Now I am barely getting to 10, on an overcast cloudy day I can sometimes get 0 or maybe 1-2 KWh.

I am not looking forward to Jan and Feb. Next winter I will have built up credits over the summer. And my bill will be better, but this year is not going to save a lot of money.

I like to think I am helping the environment too, but I know it is a drop in the bucket really.

Right, but I have solar panels as well, so I don't have the battery solely for backup in emergency situations.

Most days when the sun is out I only pull 4-5 kwh from the grid.

I generate power all day , what i don't use goes to the battery and then I sell back to eversource once my battery is fully charged. I use a percentage of my battery every night to offset grid usage. Once the non-emergency battery allocation is used up I go back to pulling from the grid.

I would not have bought a battery just for emergency use, it is about the same cost (~10k) as a whole home auto switch over propane generator.

The battery is great for emergencies, but my main goal when getting it was to offset my nightly grid usage.

We were without power for about 23 hours, losing power around 6:30 pm. Our powerwall held strong and when the power came back on I had 21% left on my battery. Wednesday before the storm I got a severe weather notification from the app, the powerwall charged itself to 100%, my solar did not generate enough power to refill all of the battery. So the battery pulled what it needed from the grid to get to 100%. All in all the experience was pretty good on my end, we ran the house on a light load and used wood heat not my pellet stove. For reference we ran 2 fridges, a chest freezer, 2 turtle tanks, well/radon pump, lights where needed, and the furnace during the outage. The pellet stove is a low load but, with this being our first outage I played it safe.

I haven't commuted since COVID, I use to see them pull people over all the time, is it happening less frequently now?