Re: [RE-wrenches] Solar and tenant billing

2023-01-30 Thread William Miller via RE-wrenches
Bill: I’m not sure what you are doing is entirely legal. Tenants can only be billed for actual (measured) utility usage. This does not necessarily apply to your situation but it should be noted: Tenants must be billed at the rate the landlord is charged— no marking up the cost. I’d say anyone

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solar and tenant billing

2023-01-30 Thread Jerry Shafer via RE-wrenches
Carl Wrenches, E Guage make a great energy monitoring platform Jerry On Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 5:43 PM Carl Adams via RE-wrenches < re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote: > Hello wrenches, > I have a client that is installing solar on a commercial building where he > has four points of connection

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solar and tenant billing

2023-01-30 Thread frenergy via RE-wrenches
Carl,             In my area (PG, N. California) I've installed solar on four of my rentals.  Rather than trying to figure out monthly billing, renters come, renters go, true-up, some occasionally don't pay their bills, etc. I decided to just bump up the rent to cover the average cost of

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solar and tenant billing

2023-01-30 Thread Thomas Hall via RE-wrenches
In my opinion, the eGauge meter is the Cadillac, and has multiple inputs. Thomas Hall > On Jan 30, 2023, at 3:43 PM, Carl Adams via RE-wrenches > wrote: > >  > Hello wrenches, > I have a client that is installing solar on a commercial building where he > has four points of connection for

[RE-wrenches] Solar and tenant billing

2023-01-30 Thread Carl Adams via RE-wrenches
Hello wrenches, I have a client that is installing solar on a commercial building where he has four points of connection for four tenants. Are there any good solutions out there for metering power for tenants in this situation. Production metering will be done via SolarEdge revenue grade meters.

Re: [RE-wrenches] VillaGrid Lithium Titanium Batteries

2023-01-30 Thread Jerry Shafer via RE-wrenches
Hey wrenches I have been to the Sacramento facility, they are 48 vdc nom. We ran some tests on site pushing pretty hard and the battery did well, no volt drop, was well over 250 amps for an extended period of time. It might be good to reach out to them and do a visit to see how it works, bring

Re: [RE-wrenches] VillaGrid Lithium Titanium Batteries

2023-01-30 Thread Kienan Maxfield via RE-wrenches
Howie, I have never heard about them, but I am interested. If you get any more information, I'd love to hear about it. Do they do 48V batteries? or an AC ESS? Are there spec sheets available? I've been able to find very little information about them. Thanks, Kienan Green-Go Solar

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote battery disconnects

2023-01-30 Thread Jerry Shafer via RE-wrenches
Wrenches. You might want to consider turning off the inverter as a solution to turning off the batteries, we have this feature as part of our installs with outback real simple then no chance of AC anywhere, Not going to pop a CC, no chance of run on and it has passed every time. Just a thought

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote battery disconnects

2023-01-30 Thread Brian Mehalic via RE-wrenches
Hey folks - love the Code, hate it, don’t care about it or follow it: it doesn’t matter to me. But if you want to change it you have to realize it is a process with rules and procedures, and posting on this list that “the NEC” should immediately “issue a memo” to do what you want or change what