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Congrats BrettS! Good luck and keep us posted on the PTO, been a long time coming!I just got an email letting me know that nearly two months after my install the city inspection has finally been scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. Someone from Tesla stopped by my house briefly this morning to post the updated documentation with the permit documentation that’s been hanging by my garage for the last two months.
With any luck I’ll pass the inspection and I’ll be able to get PTO from my utility shortly after that. Then I can finally end my extended off grid test (after generating more than 3MWh and saving more than $400 on my utility bill)
Well, looks like I still have a bit of a wait ahead of me. I called the utility to see what their process looks like and she said that she sees the interconnect application that tesla submitted, but they never finalized the application or made the payment, so the process has not been started at all on the utility side. I’m not sure if that was an oversight on Tesla’s part or if they normally wait until after the inspection to finalize the application.
But the utility said that once the payment is submitted and the application is finalized then it’s normally about a 30 day process before they change out the meter and I get PTO.
FYI my system is practically identical but LG panels were installed in 2016 (paid for themselves over a year ago now) and just added PWs recently. Would be curious to know how many kWs of daily production you are averaging in August.
I just got another email from Duke Energy with a subject that said “Incomplete Interconnection Application”. That scared me, but basically all it said was that they have everything they need for my application except a copy of the city’s inspection approval. I dunno if Tesla would normally provide that for them, but I had a copy of the approval that the inspector signed when he was here last week, so I scanned it and emailed it back to them myself. Hopefully that will keep things moving. But it’s encouraging that at least someone seems to be working on my application.
Is there a practical reason behind all of this interconnect bureaucracy? Or is it just that nobody in government has the incentive to improve things?
There are probably dozens if not hundreds of systems across Florida just like yours. Beyond a county-inspector making sure it's wired correctly, I don't see why things need to be so convoluted.
Duke has 15 days. They'll be reported to the PSC when they fail. It's good to know that they're providing information over the phone that proves they intend to fail and they have a process that will fail every time.
Local non-SolarCity installer that Tesla subbed to said they are allowed 15 days to approve. Since it's all written down over here: https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=0&tid=5455200&type=1&file=25-6.065.doc, I challenged that the same way you just did. They have 30 days, see 7(c).
I suppose I'll need to bribe them since my fingerwag just got neutralized.
Is there a practical reason behind all of this interconnect bureaucracy? Or is it just that nobody in government has the incentive to improve things?
There are probably dozens if not hundreds of systems across Florida just like yours. Beyond a county-inspector making sure it's wired correctly, I don't see why things need to be so convoluted.
The one potentially interesting difference is - at least for my system - the utility never inspected anything. They reviewed/approved paperwork, updated their systems, and eventually sent me a letter. They seemed to rely on the county inspection as the only on-site check.I’m not quite sure what “interconnect bureaucracy” you’re referring to. I think all of the utilities require at least some paperwork and verification before they allow you get PTO and feed back to the grid.
Little incentive to move fast when you have a government guaranteed monopoly. Sort of like ISPs.
Man that’s ridiculous.So just when I thought that PTO was out of Tesla’s hands and in the hands of the utility I got an email this morning asking me to sign a request for a new interconnect agreement. The same document I had signed way back in June just before my install. I called the utility before I signed because I knew that that my existing interconnect agreement was already in progress and I didn’t want to start a new agreement if that was going to cause confusion with the one that was in progress.
She told me that for some reason tesla called this morning and asked them to put my agreement back in draft state and resubmit it for my signature. She said she looked over the two submissions and couldn’t see where they had changed anything about the agreement or any reason for them to want it to be back in draft state or resubmitted. But she told me to go ahead and sign the document and she would get things moving again.
I guess the only good news is that I may have only lost a day, since they had just started working on the agreement yesterday. But I have no idea what happened here