Makes sense. I will be very interested to see how everything winds up in my case. I know i need to temper my expectations a bit because at first I was thinking this will 100% cover my electrical usage, but in reality, I now don't think that will be the case. It's strange that I cannot find whether the net metering that my utility (Atlantic City Electric) says they do is 1:1 or some other ratio. It is not mentioned on any of their website pages or brochures.
Guess I should have mentioned that I have an HOA and this would definitely not fly. I’m very interested to see what the designers come up with.
Possibly? It would need to be set back from the house and easements and all at proper distances though, so I'm not sure it would realistically work. The assessor did mention that I could potentially get a stand built and put trees around it. That would potentially fly, but it would likely come at a somewhat significant expense to me since it would need to sit on a concrete slab + stand price + trees. Was really hoping this would be a case where they install somewhere available at no extra cost. My house is not making that easy, though.
Tesla Energy operates in markets, meaning that different rules fall in different markets. At least for ME in Colorado, I got mine in the garage. And yes, it was a long run - but I wanted it there. Most of the other installs I've seen in the past 2 months have also been in the garage here.
You can’t see it in the picture, but ground from the back of the deck to the house slopes upwards only leaving around 2-3 feet from the ground to the bottom of the deck at the house. From the end of the deck that you can see it’s about 8 feet tall, so it’s quite a slope downwards away from the house.
I was told that 85%-90% of installs in the northeast are done outdoors and not in garage. It appears that the in my market specifically, there are very stringent code requirements for in-garage installs. That’s what the assessor said anyways. With that being said, I think with my home specifically, there may be no other choice. The assessor also told me if they have to install in a specific place due to no other choice, the cost associated with that install location that would normally be paid for choosing it would be waived. I’m sure extra labor/material cost will still apply though.
I could tell that was the situation from the picture. I stand by my assertion that it would be possible to put them there. Same idea as what I suggested earlier - pour a footing to support a concrete stub wall to support the Powerwalls. In this case, you would also want to put a retaining wall feature on the uphill side so that you don't get any runoff getting to the Powerwalls and the whole thing won't slide down the hill.
