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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /><br />On Monday, June 29, 2015 12:36pm, "Kirk Herander" <kirk@vtsolar.com> said:<br /><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">Here’s the reply I just got back from Solaredge:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">“As this stands ATM Tesla has only announced the product, not finished developing it. As Tesla finalizes it the details will become available. Please click StorEdge on the bottom right of the web page and sign up for the announcements as they come available. Furthermore all of our inverters are compatible with this announcement “</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">I get a funny vibe about all this hype / vaporware. Announced, but still in development. Kind of like the Powerwall itself. The Powerwall is supposedly sold out through 2016, with $800 mil in advance orders, and no product being shipped. Are there any Powerwalls in operation anywhere in the real world? Even in beta test?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><br />I would think that Solar City would know all about this.<br /><br />Or, maybe I wouldn't ?<br /><br />boB<br /><br /><br /><br />On 6/29/2015 11:06 AM, Rebekah Hren wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; word-wrap: break-word;">What is confusing is the AC output of the inverter - it is not diagrammed as a multimode system, which is what "energy independence" would indicate to me. The brochure is not showing an AC loads panel that can be isolated from the grid, or any kind of separate transfer switch - which would be necessary for a multimode system.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; word-wrap: break-word;">On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Kirk Herander <<a href="mailto:kirk@vtsolar.com" target="_blank">kirk@vtsolar.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Anyone have detailed info on the Storedge battery-compatible system from Solaredge? I only found a brochure on their website. Apparently batteries can be added to a new or existing Solaredge inverter (the brochure says they have partnered with Tesla’s Powerwall) for backup power. They call it “DC-coupling”.</span></p>
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