- [Sven] This video is
brought to you by Skillshare. - [Elon] You have to ask, what is the future that you want? A future where you look
around neighborhoods and the roofs are all gathering energy, they're all doing something useful. - [Sven] The Tesla roof consists of glass tiles with embedded solar cells. It's a promise of a new
green way of generating power but it doesn't come without
problems and setbacks. In this video, I'm going to show our 424 Day Obstacle Course
of costs and delays. - [Tesla Advisor] We had to
resubmit due to a rejection. - How many times did you resubmit? - [Tesla Advisor] So, during
the tear-off for your solar roof - So you're asking for
an additional $3000. - [Tesla Advisor] So, it's
$3800 of additional work. - So you think you're
done with the tiles today? - Definitely not today. My projected time for the deadline is going to be closer
to Tuesday, probably. - [Sven] To the finish line of reaching clean energy independence. - Today is October 28th. I'm going to document the whole process and you're going to be
able to see how my roof that's probably at least 40
years old is going to turn into a living, breathing organism that's going to collect energy
for my house, for my car, and it's going to reduce emission. So I'm going to place the order now. So on "Energy" and down here "Solar Roof". They're estimating it to be 33,000. I think it's going to be
higher based on the fact that I want to have these
batteries, at least two because another problem is that we're facing in California now and that seems to be growing. We have wildfire problems and one way to combat this
issue is rolling blackouts. So they're going to
turn off for days at end electricity to certain areas of the state and I can't take days off at the whim of an electric companies. So I want to be self-sufficient. Obviously make sure that you
read all these agreements here and that you're okay with it. I studied them yesterday, even though it's so brand
new that I expect fully that there's going to be problems, delays, maybe even faulty installation
that needs correction but I do trust the whole company. So with that in mind, I'm going to go ahead and place the order. And this is pretty exciting because I can't tell you how
long I've been waiting to go solar on my house. Here we go. Hopefully this works. Okay, I got an order number here. So they say "Home Assessment" We're assessing your roof to
prepare for installation." All right, I just did it. Yay me. Yay you for following along. And if you're really
interested in this process, if you're considering to go solar roof, this is the channel
that's going to show you what that looks like, even if you're not, maybe
you're just open-minded you just want to see what happens. Maybe you want to see it fail. This is the channel to check
out and see if you're right. Today is December 10th on a Tuesday. I just got the email yesterday
from Tesla that my quote for the solar roof is ready and I can now pay for it. 65,000. So, first of all, this is
actually my second quote, and you see actually,
there are two quotes here. This is the original quote
for a 9.24 kilowatt system, and this is a smaller scale system. And the reason why I went
back and forth with them is simply because they included my garage in the initial quote. I'm actually planning to remodel my garage in the next couple of years. This is the original design
for the $65,000 system. This is my house. This is my garage right here, this part I'm planning to remodel. So I asked him to actually
take that part out. And I got to say so far communication has been really great. How we could potentially
handle the garage, that'd be great. - [Tesla Advisor] Yeah, let me
reach out to the design team now and try to get that response to you before I leave or at least
have the design updated so you can find out tomorrow. - So that we have some options. - [Tesla Advisor] Yeah, absolutely. - This is a new system. That one came in much
smaller, 6.2 kilowatts. Of course, I'm not just going to say yes, I'm going to obviously compare to other regular panels in California. So this is one of the quotes, I got probably close to 10 quotes. It has the same warranty,
excellent quality, and you can see where they put
the panels up on the house. So they actually put it on that one side that was inactive in the schematics. So they actually put
panels up on this side. These portions are not being
utilized by Tesla at all. And these are actually really good sites in terms of the sun exposure, if you see north is over here,
the south side is over here, especially in the morning you get great sun over here and here. I would consider this obviously to be the best part. So these are all things to consider. And then look at the price of this system. It comes in at $16,900 compared to what my quote is from Tesla. Bottom line, 50,000,
the other one was what? 16.5, much more expensive. But is it really? Here's what I'm getting extra. I'm getting a new roof
with an amazing surface. So these glass tiles are
obviously very durable. If you seen any of the demonstrations you can tell that this
is way more resistant than even a metal roof or a clay tile. If I wasn't going to get this roof, the alternative for me would really be a metal roof. I wouldn't do asphalt shingles,
which is the cheapest way of doing things. We try
to collect rainwater. So I don't like the
idea of an asphalt roof. I looked around a little bit
to see what are good quotes for metal roofs and it turns out that I should probably consider $16,000 to redo my roof, metal. So the other quote, 16.9. So let's say it's 17,000
and then another 16,000 on top of that to get a new
roof because my roof is old as you know by now, I have a 30, 40 year
old roof, double layer. This is bad as is. Then the other thing that's
included are two Powerwalls, and these are the batteries. So that component alone is 15.5. So this is the traditional
solar system metal roof. And then let's say I would
still buy the batteries from Tesla. And they would actually be more expensive because I do get a discount. So they would actually cost 2,600, so it would be 17, 18.1, would be if I go and not use
Tesla for my main panels. 17 plus 16 plus 18.1 that system comes in at 51.1 regular. So if you compare this
price with the Tesla price which is 50.8, we're right there. So even though this is
a much higher price, I'm actually getting
exactly what I'm paying for. By the way, there's a tax
credit of $9,500 right now, it might be a little more, a little less. So anyway, so my net cost
of the system will be 41,000 which gives me a completely new roof, two Powerwalls and solar. I'm going to go ahead and do this, I'm going to spend that kind
of money on going solar. So there we go. I pressed "Accept". That was quite uneventful. Once again, I'm really excited
about taking these steps and documenting the process along the way. I hope you enjoy it too. And if you are considering
to get a solar roof or buying a Tesla, feel free
to use my referral code. It gives you some extra benefits. I think you get free supercharging for at least a thousand miles. And I'm sure if you get a solar roof there's some incentive there too. - [Aaron] Hey Sven. This
is Aaron with Tesla. Our scheduling team
just tried to reach out and left you a message Can I go ahead and transfer you? - Okay. Thank you. - [Jessica] Hi, this is Jessica. So our next available
appointment would be January 6th with an arrival window
of 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM. - Yeah. Good. What is that? Just an inspection or an install? What's happening that day? - [Jessica] It's more of an inspection. - [Sven] Do you prefer
not to show your face? - It's okay, I don't mind. - [Sven] Okay, cool. - This way?
- [Sven] Yeah. - [Jessica] So the site surveyor will see your roof attic,
the electrical panel, and the AC unit. And they'll take measurements,
pictures, send it over to the design and engineering team. And then from there they
basically create the plan - It's pretty tight up there? - A little bit. Yeah. - So this is the third
step in this ongoing saga of getting a solar tile roof installed. So far, everything that they've quoted me and all the plans have been
done based on Google maps and what they see in terms of
a satellite image of my house. So now they actually send a guy over to take a look at the roof. - Do you have any electrical
panels inside your house? - No, they are outside. - Okay, so I'm pretty much
done with the inside then. - Okay, cool. This is the main panel. - Do you have any sub panels? - Yeah, we have one over
there in the garage. - That's pretty much it, right? - That's it. Are you thinking of getting Powerwalls? - Yeah. Two of those. - Do you have a preference where you would like them to be installed? - This could be a good wall because... Does the Powerwall need
to be in the shade? - Not necessarily. - Okay. Do I need to have access to them all the time? - Yeah, you do. They do have a switch button
that just in any emergency you need to be able to reach it. So that's why we cannot
put it like in attics or up on the roof. - Maybe I can show you the two roof sites that I'd love to see if we can include. And the one thing that I
kept pressing, and it's one of the reasons why there were some delays, that I wanted to have more solar. The existing system as
is without the garage is really only a 6.2 kilowatt system which in California is maybe not as bad because we have constant sunlight. So it will produce a lot of energy but I'd like it to get
as much as possible. So I keep asking them
to look at the designs and see if we can squeeze in a couple more solar tiles. Really, in terms of the sun, this side of the roof, it's really good. And right now it's not included because it seems to be too small. And the other one was this side here. - This one right here. - I'll put that in my
notes so that one is not- - Certain parts of that
roof are actually inactive. They still will have glass tiles but they are basically dummies without any active solar cells. - Once I'm up there, I will take a look. The designers will see it as well and then they'll see if it's something that
we can work on in there or if we just kind of put glass in there. - Right now it's just
whatever is on the roof. What we call obstructions, any pipes, any vents that you may have just for the designers to know
where some of the cutouts are going to be on the roof. That way we can plan ahead and have everything ready for
any pipe that is on the roof. Apart from that, I see that you have like two layers of shingle. That doesn't really matter because we're going to
take everything out. If it was solar panels,
that will gonna be an issue because we'll have to add more weight. - The next step really is
to get the city involved. Once the permit is
issued, Tesla can go ahead and schedule the install. - So this is just the glass. That's how it looks. - This is version three, right? - This is version two. The one you're getting is version three. But with version three, it's faster than version two. It also depends on how big the house is. This one is just not that big. I don't see it as really complicated as the other ones we've done. - Cool. Well, thank you
so much for your time. - You got it. - Hi, today is March
15th, that's a Sunday. Spoiler alert! The roof is still not up yet,
but I have some good news. - I had a Tesla tech here
who was scouting my roof to figure out what the specifics
are for the install. All that's good. They handed in the permit
and the permit got denied. And the reason being is that the system was
actually not big enough to sustain two batteries, which is good because now they were
motivated to increase the size. Now they're saying it's
because they've innovated on the install and they've
been able to figure out how to squeeze more panels
into existing roof lines. I don't care. I'm just glad that the
system is now bigger. So I'm going to show you
how the system has improved. And then also some really good news, the price has come down and I'm going to show you how. So let's compare the old
system with the new system. This was the layout of the old system. What Aaron told me from
Tesla, they figured out ways to create more
panels here, here, and here. I still was insisting
on putting panels here and here and here. And he explained to me
that that doesn't work and he actually conferred
with the designer. I wrote this down here somewhere. So from that conversation, I gathered that you need to have at least 17 panels, active panels that are
connected, that need to be at the same pitch and also the
same angle towards the sun, not in this direction but
this direction as well. I don't know what that's called. The roof lines have to have
all those same angles to be able to count it as one circuit. So with this, we can't put in 17 in there and this has a different angle. We can't put 17 in there,
but specifically also because there are vents here and they can't get too close to the vents. Wherever there's a vent
they have to stop there. But apparently now they can
get a little closer to it. So let's look at the
two different systems. If we look at the old purchase agreement, we had a system that is 6.2 kilowatts and it came down to 50,000. So this is the new purchase agreement. Old, right here; new, right here. The final price comes down to 46,549. So what has changed? There are less dummies,
but more active tiles. So that price went down,
that price went up. Powerwalls, same price, same price, same. Pre-construction, I see. So the pre-construction
has been taken out. So I hope that means that they actually going to cover that now and it's maybe due to the inspection they've now realized
there's not a lot to be done but it also has the potential to come down even further. This took me a little bit of
work to figure this one out. It's called the, the
Self-Generation Incentive Program And I got that done and we actually handed in the application. There's no guarantee that
that application will go through. The calculated incentive
that you're eligible for in California with some stipulations. But if you're a resident
in California, you can get an additional 5,800 off your system. So we are 46.5 minus the
tax credit which is 9,500. So that's 37 minus 58,
is going to be $31,500 for the entire system,
including the new roof, the solar tiles, and the battery. We handed in the permit again to the city. I actually had to sign
a net metering contract. This is like a contract
between me and the city that whatever solar energy
that I produce in access I can feed back into the system
and they'll give me a credit against any energy that I
might be using in the future from them. That's the status right now. Who knows what's going to
happen in the next couple of months, we might all
be stuck inside the house. Our kids just stopped going to school and it's going to be quite an experience. - [Reporter 1] High states of
emergency across the nation as a number of Corona virus
cases soars above 3000. - Breaking news tonight. The coronavirus is forcing millions more Americans into virtual lockdown. - [Reporter 2] The World
Health Organization officially declared the crisis, a pandemic. The head of that agency saying
they are deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread. - Looks like we submitted
the plans on the 27th of last month, so a month ago. It was supposed to have
a 10-day turnaround. We had to resubmit due to a rejection. - How many times did you resubmit? Just once? - We submitted on the 27th, then we had another rejection 14 days ago on August 14th. - Is there any more information about what the problem is? - Why they keep rejecting it? - Yeah, let me get your permit coordinator and your advisor involved. - There was a pandemic,
everything froze up, everything shut down. Before I get into where we are right now, I just wanted to point out I'm so grateful for this
channel because one of you saw my video and said, "One thing to consider is to move one of the bathroom vents
that helps to open up usable roof area. It's not too difficult or expensive to put a horizontal PVC
section in the attic to move a roof vent by six feet or so." This is actually in regards
to a section of the roof. We didn't have active solar on it. And we're talking about
this section right here. So I shot this back to Aaron who was still my contact
at Tesla at the time, and just said, Hey, I
hope you're doing well. Someone in construction pointed out to me. I said "someone in construction" because I wasn't gonna tell him about the YouTube channel, that the vents can easily be moved. I included a sketch of what that could potentially look like. This is the section we're talking about. So I sent that to Aaron. I love Aaron. He responded, "Hello Sven, We got it to work! We just asked those vents are relocated before we start the
installation of the roof." And the new plan now
increases the system to 7.8. So I don't remember what it was initially but I think we were in the low six and then
we did one power upgrade and now we're doing another one. By now we are at 7.8 kilowatts. I had the vents move. I actually get my
previous construction team that I did some remodeling
work with move those vents. It took him a couple of hours and done. Then we were still waiting on the permits. Apparently it is really hard
to get these tiles approved. They have to figure all this stuff out and there's also some resistance. Ultimately this is a major
disruption to the industry. At some point, I just wanted
to find out what's going on. I know there's a regulation in California that these cities have to respond to a permit request within 60 days. And we were months over and I'm sure they were going
to blame it on the pandemic. So I wanted to have some data
and find out what went on. So this is what Aaron says, he says that permits have been
rejected three times dating back to February 6. And then in March, if you remember, this is when the country
shut down, no process for online was available because of COVID. That took until 7/27 that
they were able to resubmit and they got rejected pretty
much right away, 8/14. So you can see permit
rejection note, extended plan set inquiry, battery size
exceeds battery confirmation. I think they've solved
that, they resubmitted in middle of August,
missed AHU requirement, change from 2016 to 2019 on the cover page - Didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPS reports? - Yeah. - And Aaron said, "We're making these and then we're going to resubmit." I said, "This is really helpful. Thank you. Just to confirm: a revised
application has already been submitted by Tesla and is now back with the city. We're currently
waiting for their response. Is that correct?" This communication happened end of August. That's where we were. And then recently I got a text. "Hey, Sven, exciting update. We've received your permits. This brings us one step
closer to installation day. Please reply if you have any questions." Of course I replied. I said, "Fantastic!!! When do we start the install? Excited to get going. Thanks for the update." I ended up getting an installation date and that is going to be...wait for it. Monday, November 2nd, 6:45 AM. This is where we're at. We finally got a permit. We got an installation date. We got a bigger system. And I'm praying that
they're going to show up on November 2nd. I'm hopeful we're going to
get this done this year. We have to because the tax
credit, there's a steep decline. We don't want that. (upbeat music) - [Sean] Hey Sven, good morning. This is Sean calling from
Tesla to schedule the tear-off and subsequent install of
the solar roof requested. - So today is November 4th. Today is the day when
we start the install. (upbeat music) Day 1 is all about tearing-off the roof. Today's the day where it's
all going to come together. As I said, I'm going to be
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of premium membership. Now back to the tear-down
process of my solar tile roof. So far, I had two visits
of the Tesla forman and then also the
subcontractor to just look at the roof and see how
they're going to do this. Step number two probably
putting the plywood there. - So, the actual front
portion of the house, it was worn by six boards. - The Tesla roof, you can't have that. It has to be sheets of
plywood because there's a gap at every six inches, it's going to start moving and stuff. So that's why we sheeted the front side. The backside already had the plywood. So you're good. - Oh, I see, that's awesome. Day two. So plywood in the front.
In the back portion. That's an addition that
was done in the '70s, no need to put it on there. Then the next step he says it's going to be to put the
underlayment or like this film. It's a peel and stick, great stuff. As soon as the nail goes
inside, it's like a tar and it basically, it'll bond
and it'll lock itself together. - That is actually the
most important part to keep the roof from leaking. It turns out that we're actually going to have rain over the weekend. Today's Thursday. (upbeat music) - [Matt] Hello, this is Matt with the Tesla Solar Roof Team. So during the tear-off of your solar roof we did determine some
additional work that's required in order to complete your installation. These things were not able to be found in a pre installation review, these things can only be found once you start tearing off the roof. What we found was that 10
squares of roof decking or 1000 square feet of roof
decking needs an overlay. - That's the plywood
that they put on today? - [Matt] That's correct. That's the plywood decking. That's $2,500 for the decking overlay. We need to replace 40 feet
of linear feet of fascia that was damaged or had dry rot, and then 50 linear feet of shiplap needed to be replaced as well. That was $500. - You're asking for an additional 3000? - [Matt] The 40 feet of fascia was $800. The 50 feet of shiplap was $500. So it's $3,800 of additional work. - 3,800. I mean, that seems high. A piece of plywood costs what? 30 bucks? - [Matt] No, actually the
cost of plywood has gone up because of the pandemic. It's doubled in price. So that's what all of
our subs are quoting us. $250 a square is average for California. - I just have to pay that, there's no option to
bring that price down? - [Matt] No, I mean we've so... Of course, this is Tesla, we don't use the cheapest
contractors out there. We want you to have a really
high quality installation. So our subs are all vetted and they do "A+" quality work. They're very professional, that's where that pricing comes from. You get, you get what you pay for and we probably don't use
the cheapest contractors that's because we are Tesla. - Little bit of a bummer,
obviously, because I feel like that should have
been in the initial quote because they had a guy inspecting the roof and he actually went into the attics so he has seen the slats. And he actually told me,
I'm pretty sure he told me that they're probably
going to install plywood so it should have been part of the quote. (upbeat music) It's Friday. This is Day 3 and we're mid day, we haven't even had lunch yet. And they're basically done with phase one which is tear-down,
plywood, and underlayment. The roof is dried in now. Rain will come tomorrow apparently and we should be all good. It was super smooth, super clean now, they cleaned up everything. They got it done in time and it's a clean site that they left. I don't know if these
are the panels already. I'm pretty sure they are. This feels like this
could be the glass tile. The foreman here from the sub crew told me that Tesla will start on Monday. That'll be Week 2. Then they can get it done within that week or can take two weeks or
it could take a month, he said, from his experience. So we'll see what happens. Oh, there's one more thing. (upbeat music) Week 2, this is November 10th. It's actually a Tuesday. We only started today
because there was rain over the weekend and the
Tesla crew had to wait it out, they got here and it's a lot of people. Right now they're on the roof. They secured the safety lines. What's happening today is they're installing the Powerwalls. - Try to keep them nice
and square and neat. This here is your main panel. It's showing the solar disconnect and the meter that's going on the side of the wall right here. They're showing our automatic relay and our load center going
by the main panel here. And then over by, those two Powerwalls, three DC disconnects, the inverter, and the AC disconnects for
each individual Powerwall. So that's going to be
over on that one wall. - How long do you think is
your part going to take? So it'll be today. Probably I'll be here until about anywhere between 3 and 6 o'clock. - Okay. And then it's a
totally different crew that does the tiling? - Yeah. That's the Solar Roof crew. - Awesome, thank you so much again. - All right, so we'll get started. (upbeat music) - So far, what they've done
is installed the flashing on all the corners and some
metal rails on the roof. They're waiting on the tiles. I spoke to one of the crew members and he said that the tiles were
supposed to arrive yesterday in the afternoon and they
haven't shown up yet. So hopefully that's not
going to set them back. The other crew, they're right
now installing the Powerwall and installing a sub
panel for the electric. - This a 200 amp rated sub-panel. It's still interconnected
with the utility company. - And then what's this? - That's the automatic relay switch. So that'll separate you
from the utility company in the event of a blackout. It also houses pretty
much the operating system for the Powerwalls. - Today is Day 5 of the
install, it's a Wednesday. Crew's there, they are
waiting still on the tile, maybe a little bit of a concern that it's going to take longer. They're still busy working
on all the flashing and ridges installed some
metal rails of sorts. The other crew that was
installing the Powerwall, it's all done. Yesterday I could see in my app that the batteries already
showed up. They're, right now, not connected through the grid or they're not charging,
but they're online, I can see them. Well, I'm going to have
to go and work some. Hopefully by the time I come back we'll see some tiles. (upbeat music) - How're doing? - Good, how're you? Do you think you'll be
done with the tiles today? - Definitely not today. My projected time for the deadline is going to be closer
to Tuesday, probably. The tiling, it moves pretty fast. You know, we started laying
them down after lunch when the delivery arrive yesterday. So we only worked for about three hours. So it will start going fast
because we have extra guys on side. But I think when it
comes down to detail work like the metal custom fabrications that's what tends to
take a little extra long. (upbeat music) - Now I know what those
metal rails are for, that's to store the tiles before they installed them. Really smart way because
that means less storage space required on the ground and then also at night it's safe because nobody can steal it. (upbeat music) The crew's been super nice. They're all parking on the street here. Now the street is really busy. And yesterday we had trash day. Some of the cans weren't picked up because the cars were parked too
close to the trash cans. They noticed that and they made sure that all
those trash cans got emptied. So they took the trash so that all the neighbors are not upset because there's construction here. - How are you liking it so far? - I love it. I was a little worried
about all these boxes. But there is some beauty to it. I love that it says "Tesla" on that box. - Yeah. That's our new Gateway 2. Before, it was a relay
switch which is similar to the one beneath it,
which is a load center, but they just updated it. - What does this do? - It pretty much communicate with the app. So anytime there's a shutdown, it's pretty much like the
brain for the Powerwall, it'll automatically trigger the batteries and then start that, and you wouldn't even
know the power shut off. - That's awesome. I already saw it on the app
show up, so that's cool. - By the end of today, you should be able to turn it on and see. Obviously you don't want to turn it on until you have permission to operate but it should be up and running. - So you're saying the
panels are already feeding through the system? - It's not feeding. So,
you need communication from the inverter before it produces. So right now it's kind
of just laying dormant. We should get most of
the electrical done today on the ground. (upbeat music) - Today is Friday, November the 13th. Looking really good. There's still a bunch of roof sites that need some tiles on there. This is the last day of the week and then they'll come back on Monday. Hopefully, just a couple more days. If you are considering
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Y, and some Powerwalls. (upbeat music) Day 8 of the construction. We are in Week 3 but it's
a total of eight days that they've been working on this project. I think today's the day
where they're going to finish with the actual tiling. They're pretty far along
but after that I'm sure it's going to take a lot longer to do the fine detail work, all the rims and all the edges. And I'm not sure how easy it is
to do all the electrical work whether it's like once you stack the tiles and put them all together,
you just take those cables and just plug them in. But I'm hopeful that
by the end of this week the whole system should be up and running and then it's just really
a matter of waiting for the city to come by and inspect the system and approve it and then hopefully we can switch it on. (upbeat music) Today's Day 9. I'm really excited actually
about this piece right here. And this is solid. That's about a quarter inch and it does feel a lot like glass. The underside has like
a rubber coating on it and then you have these metal connectors. This is what goes on the roof and I think they're screw
it in here in those holes. And then this will connect here. And once it connects, basically it's really hard to come off. And then this one here,
these go on the sides and then they connect to
the next tile like this. There might be a little
space in here, probably for heat expansion as well. This piece locks it into here. And then the tile has
this rubber coating on it so it creates a seal. And then the water runs
between the two tiles down here to the next row. Engineering-wise, this is pretty awesome. It's beautiful. (upbeat music) - I started back in January, since then I think we've done over 10 to 15 jobs somewhere around there. At first it started off kind of slowly, installations used to take maybe about two or three weeks, but they've gone progressively faster. - The thing about with this one is it took a lot longer because there was a lot of new hires and
it was a lot of training, looking back at their mistakes, how to fix what they had
to do, but all in all came up pretty good. - I only learned that yesterday, Gus said that there are
basically two crews here, one that's done it and one
that's kind of watching. - At first we were all
like three different crews but they kind of just
blended us all together. - Okay, cool. (upbeat music) - Today is November 19th. This is the final day of the install. Crew are finishing up the last things. They still have some equipment
that needs to be picked up and some supplies. But basically it's all done
and it's looking amazing. I was expecting it to be
amazing, but now seeing it, looking at it with the
sunlight, I'm really really happy with the look. You can't really tell the solar tiles from the street at all. If you fly over the drone
and you go straight down, yes you can see a little bit but only if you really look closely and you know what you're looking for. The work, I think they
did an amazing job with just the crafting of putting it together, making sure that all the finishes are all looking really slick. It ended up being 10 days with everything, that includes the tear-down, the sub crew, and then obviously the
main crew doing their jobs. So they had seven days,
just the Tesla crew. We still have to wait for the inspection. So hopefully tomorrow
or the next few days, an inspector from the city, as well as a representative
from Tesla will come by. - We've our own guys from
our warehouse that assist with the inspection to make
sure everything's up to code. The city usually provides the meter. - And once the city signs off on it, then it's still going to
be like two or three weeks before the utility company
is going to make the switch and allow us to connect to the grid. ♪ Think about me one
more time before you go ♪ ♪ Someday, you'll know ♪ ♪ You already know what I'm going to say ♪ ♪ I've been feeling this
way for far too long ♪ ♪ And now you're gone ♪ - [Caesar] Hi, this is
Caesar calling from Tesla. We have a city inspection
today at around 8AM and I actually need to get
to your home now to get everything set up for the city inspection. I should be in the area
within the next 10-15 minutes. Thank you. ♪ Kept me away from all of my tears ♪ - The inspector actually
didn't show up on that day but eventually a few weeks
later we did get the inspection approved and with a little
bit of back and forth we also got the utility company to finally commission the system. And it's been up and
running since December 23rd. Now in this video, I
want to share with you the first few days of data that came in and how the system is holding up. All of this in this video. So the first day it was full rain, which obviously sucked. The good news is, it
actually cleaned the tiles. And I spoke to one of the Tesla reps and he said the best
way to clean the tiles is just with water,
don't use any chemicals. And as you can see right
now, it is charging. This is the second day
that the system is online. And I played with all
the different functions. The solar's up, it's
about 9:49 in the morning. This is our first day
of sunshine in winter and it's creating 1.3 kilowatts. So I anticipate that's going
to go up throughout the day and I don't know how
high it's going to get. We're going to take a look
at the sun in a second. During the winter, the
sun is low, obviously it's not hitting the solar
tiles in the optimized way but it's using that energy
right now to charge the battery. Once it's done charging the battery then it should start
self powering our home. Look, it just went up to 2 kilowatts, 2.1. We're off grid, you just saw that. We are now completely self-powered, it's still feeding a
little bit to the battery but the rest goes into the home. So I anticipate it's going
to keep charging the battery up to a hundred percent. Once it's done doing that it's going to switch over
and feed into the grid, whatever's additional charging. Again, this is a winter
morning, not even 10:00 AM, and we can fully power our
home plus feed our battery. That's awesome. Let's take a look at the sun outside. So sun is way in the East,
it's behind those trees. It's going to come all the way up here. This is the South and I
can't wait to see what the performance of the
system is at that point. Then once we're in the summer,
then it actually goes almost perpendicular to the house. While we're here, I think it's time to get rid of this. (upbeat music) So let's take a quick look
and see how the electricity actually flows in the system. In the event that we have
sun and the solar panels are producing electricity, it goes from the roof
to this junction box. There are actually
three different circuits on the roof and each one of these has a DC disconnect. One, two, three. From there they go to the
inverter and the DC energy is converted into AC right here. From there, this AC current is now fed all the way to the other side where it goes to an AC
disconnect and a sub meter. This meter measures how much energy I'm producing in total
with the solar tiles. From there, it then goes to the sub panel and starts using the
electricity for the house. And if there's anything left over, the Gateway 2 that is
that white box on top then decides whether it
goes into the batteries or the grid. Let's say we still need
to charge batteries. So it goes from the
gateway, all the way back to additional AC disconnects and then it's going into the battery. Let's say the battery is
charged and we have no sun and we now want to run off-grid. Then the energy goes back all the way to the sub panel to support the house. And let's say we're out of battery, the main panel from the grid will also feed additional electricity
to the sub panel. So in this box, now we have all the fuses for all the different
circuits in the house. Now, when we look at the app we can actually see what's going on. Now it went to 3.1 at 11:22 AM. Still charging the Powerwall to 100% and then it's going to start feeding into the grid eventually. So right now, 58% of the energy that we needed today has
been provided through solar. So that's since midnight as
it was not producing any solar and then it started producing solar at around 8:00 AM this morning
and 58% has been offset. This is the solar
production starting at 8 AM. It powered up to 3.1 just now, most of that stuff is
fed into the battery. So let's see about the grid. We've been using the grid all night long, in the morning, and then it's at point the solar took over. This is what the house
has been using so far. This is what we've been using overnight in terms of minimum electricity and then in the morning
as people start waking up and start going to the
bathroom, taking showers, hair drying, making
their coffee, microwave, the energy consumption went up but it was all covered through
our solar generation here. So this is what's happening
right now with the grid. We're completely off grid and have been since 10:00 AM. Let's see how long we can go. From grid so far, for today withdrawn 6.9 kilowatt hours. On average, on a normal day when I'm not charging the car, I'm pulling about 20. If you look, yesterday I had 20.8. There was briefly some
solar action going on but it was a cloudy day and it was rainy. This is when we turned the system on. This is a normal day. The system wasn't on yet and we pulled 17.9
kilowatt hours on Tuesday for the entire day. On Monday, we pulled 20.8. Sunday, we pulled 23.7,
22.1, whoops, 41.6. This is where I actually
charged my car the last time and then it immediately
doubles my energy consumption. And then we're back to 20. So 20 per day, that's
140 kilowatts per week plus an additional 40 for two cars, that's 160 kilowatt hours that we need to produce within a week to be completely energy neutral. The system right now is a
little too small to do that but we're not done yet. We're going to upgrade the system as soon as we go up in the garage. This is the garage and
my office is in the back, basically just going to
have one slope facing to the South. It's all going to be active tiles so it's going to at least
double our system size. Right now we have a 7.8 system. So we're going to go up to 15. I'll check back once we're at 1 PM. (upbeat music) - With the passing of
the latest stimulus bill, they actually extended the tax rebate. So if you end up buying a
system in the next two years, 26% of that is a straight
tax credit rebate on the solar portion,
as well as the battery. If you're interested in
getting yourself a solar roof, feel free to use my referral
code, because it will give you 100 bucks off your system. Or if you're thinking
about getting a Tesla car it will also get you 1000
free supercharging miles. Plus I think we both are
eligible for a drawing of a Roadster, the Model
Y, and some Powerwalls. (upbeat music) - So the battery is full now, we're done charging the Powerwall. Whatever's left over
is going into the grid. Nice. We're producing energy and we're feeding it back into the grid. And all this is happening while
our consumption is going up. So if we're looking back at today, so far we've used up 10.2
kilowatt hours for the home and 8.9 of that was compensated or offset with solar production. All right, it's the end of the day, it is quarter after 4:00 PM. Then in the next 20 minutes
or so it's going to be dark. Let's take a look at where
we're at with the data for the first real day. So right now it is running off the battery as it's supposed to do. Let's first look at
how our house is doing. So this is all the consumption we've had throughout the day
14.4 kilowatt hours so far. So we're going to hit our 20 again. Let's see how much solar we produced, 14.6. Part of that went into the battery and it's going to be used up now. Let's take a look at how
the grid was utilized today. All right, so that was Day 1, winter day, looked pretty good, it
looks like it's just going to go even pretty much. It's going to 80% to 100% be able to sustain the energy needs
that we have. In the summer when the system is really cranking up, then we're going to be able
to just put a ton of energy into the grid. Stay tuned as I keep updating you on how the system's performing, and also if it's necessary
to clean the solar roof. Thanks so much for watching
and keep things sunny. (upbeat music) ♪ Finally no give no fuzz ♪ ♪ Finally been riding on my way ♪ ♪ Finally woke up with
some luck and a buck ♪ ♪ I don't give a-ah what
someone someone say ♪ ♪ Finally got my friends in a roller ♪ ♪ We gon make it big one day ♪ ♪ We gon make it big I say ♪ ♪ We go make it just, stay in there ♪ ♪ Stay in the moment ♪ ♪ Stay in the moment with me ♪ ♪ Give you a moment to ♪ ♪ Give you a moment of me ♪ ♪ Smell all the roses ♪ ♪ Smell all the roses with me ♪ ♪ Just give you a moment ♪ ♪ To stay in the moment with me ♪ ♪ You woke up from a while ♪ ♪ Haven't seen you smile since December ♪ ♪ Ripped your heart, got a brand new one ♪ ♪ Since you got lost in November ♪ ♪ See it in your eyes when
we leave for the night ♪ ♪ Way to many heartbreaks
still on your mind ♪ ♪ Let the flame burn down for a while ♪ ♪ Let the frame blur out for a while ♪
