California Solar and NEM 3.0 Explained

[@Tommy-d7w]

Heyyy Jaime!!!

[@jaimegreenethesolarqueen]

Hey hey!

[@hank-kal]

As usualy - great presentation, thank you. I do have a clarification question, though. My understanding is that with SoCal Edison NEM 3.0 there are monthly bills with true-ups. Do we also get a monthly credit applied based on the power exported to Edison monthly, or is there still another yearly true-up where NEM 3.0 customers will only be able to use those cerdits once a year, like with NEM 2.0?

[@jaimegreenethesolarqueen]

True up monthly for consumption. True up annual for net surplus compensation for over production. There is no exchange of energy generation and consumption.

[@jtromans8307]

Thank you for your video. I’m looking at a system size of 6.885kwh resulting in 129% offset with 20kwh self consumption storage. I was concerned with so much storage but sales rep insisted that the batteries will be full in summer and that we will use 20kwh for A/C during the evenings. I live in central California so it gets really hot here. Thoughts?

[@jaimegreenethesolarqueen]

Glad this video is helpful! Have you analyzed your interval data of actual historic usage? Why not 27KWh of storage with two Tesla Powerwall 3?

[@jtromans8307]

Yes, during the summer we can use up too 18kwh during evening hours. We went with 4 mp5 emphase batteries with iq8 micro inverters.

[@jtromans8307]

Any pros to the Powerwall over the Enphase?

[@jaimegreenethesolarqueen]

Tesla is definitely more affordable and provides both backup and self consumption based on how you set it up. And you can get 27 kWh of storage with two batteries for the same price roughly as 4 Enphase mp5 batteries

[@tracle8334]

what do you think about Assembly Bill (AB) 2619 ?

[@jaimegreenethesolarqueen]

I’d be thrilled if that passes!

[@JAkino266]

@Jaimie Greene, I have a gas furnace heater and my utility bill shows how much our thrm usage is in addition to electricity usage. Does interval data include both? Trying to understand interval data. Also one contractor told me I need a 5kw system and another tells me I need a 10kw system. My home is 2632 sqft, two story and I get sunshine all day. How do I know how much solar I need?

[@jaimegreenethesolarqueen]

Hi Jeff, feel free to reach out for a thorough solar consultation and proposal for your home. Those are huge differences from what one sales rep from another is proposing. I’m happy to help you make sure you get the right system size. When you go to download your interval data, you should be able to download just electricity data and if you go to the date range, it will download hourly interval data, which is what is needed to determine how much energy you use after the sun goes down. This helps determine the storage size you need. Hope this helps!

[@JAkino266]

@@jaimegreenethesolarqueen ok thanks Jaime. I’ll text you if I have additional questions.

[@jaimegreenethesolarqueen]

Sounds great!