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Thanks / helpful. Similarly, I anticipate charging from grid only in winter, when it will mean using less peak (rather than exporting more during peak), and will have the added advantage of making sure my PW is charged for outages (which typically are longer here in winter AND include the...

That makes sense if the discrepancy you are describing includes the transmission/distribution expenses… but they still can chew into the difference between off-peak buy vs at peak sell. In my case, the off peak buying price (including transmission and distribution expenses) actually exceeds the...

True with regard to the decision making process; however, the info that feeds into that decision is factual, not opinion. For example, is the utility able to peer into your system to determine sources and destinations of energy, or simply can see use and export? That, I think, is quite...

Thanks/understood, but winter in Pittsburgh will take any credit I get from summer. (I also may be one of few EV-PV-PW setups in my utilities area, so might get more scrutiny charging from grid than I would in CA.) That said, I think this may create another issue: if I charge off peak, end...

If you took the ITC towards the PW it is supposed to be charged with 100% PV. If you didn’t take the ITC, no worries.

I do; however, the increase in export during peak hours still would be offset by use later in the day so would simply be shifting use toward off peak hours… as would be anticipated with any solar system on a TOU plan. The effect might be a little more dramatic if charging from the grid, but the...

Sorry to backtrack but, having read through 16 pages of thread, the ITC issue has been danced around but the elephant-in-the-room question doesn’t seem to have been answered (at least not in a manner I understand): For a net user of energy that simply wants to grid charge the PW during off...