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Tesla Powerwall low state of energy / emergency grid charging events

Back in July I posted about changing the application that sits on my server to collect data from around the house and send it to Splunk. That app has been sending data for over 8 months now and during the winter we noticed that the Powerwall was consuming data from the grid nearly every night, yet not charging the battery above the reserved 5% mark.

I contacted Tesla to find out what was happening as these events were quite frequent in the winder months. Their response was that they were “low state of energy” or also known as “emergency grid charging events”. In the below graphs each of the orange spikes below the zero line and with a corresponding spike in the blue line at the same time period represents one of these low state of energy events.

Tesla offered some options on how to reduce the number of these low state of energy events but for the time being we’ve decided to leave the settings as is because the summer months are on the way and the number of low state of energy events has already started to reduce.