Basking in the beautiful, warm sunshine of January in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago is not something that most people can ever recall. Unless you are an avid "outdoors" person, anxious for the chance to attack the ski slopes, or you have recently installed a photo-voltaic solar array on your roof.
I guess I fall into the latter category.
I now anxiously await sunrise, gauging just how much sun will be out during the day. Also, I'm checking the Weatherbug application for the local hourly forecast. I must believe that the newness of the solar production system will wear off in time. But, the geek in me loves to monitor the solar production and think about my energy meter running in reverse.
So here are a few glimpses of the solar installation and the first few days of solar production.
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| Roof perspective of South-facing roof with racking |
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| Roof perspective of East-facing roof with racking & Power Optimizers attached |
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| The South side of the East-facing roof |
Photos of the final solar panel installation.
The first weeks production is shown below excerpted from the SolarEdge monitoring application.
The production level is graphed on a daily basis beginning January 16, 2020. Each day's production begins at sunrise and stops at sunset. The jagged look of the day's production reflects the amount of sun hitting the solar panel. Cloudy days are shown as low peaks and multi-peaked plots. Only half of January 22 is shown.
January 21 was the largest production day, coming in at just over 51 kWh of energy. As a reference, our actual consumption of energy on January 21 was just under 30 kWh, so this was a push-it-into-the-grid day!
Nice to see the sun. It has a different meaning these days...
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| The North side of the East-facing roof |
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| The South-facing roof panels |
The production level is graphed on a daily basis beginning January 16, 2020. Each day's production begins at sunrise and stops at sunset. The jagged look of the day's production reflects the amount of sun hitting the solar panel. Cloudy days are shown as low peaks and multi-peaked plots. Only half of January 22 is shown.
January 21 was the largest production day, coming in at just over 51 kWh of energy. As a reference, our actual consumption of energy on January 21 was just under 30 kWh, so this was a push-it-into-the-grid day!
Nice to see the sun. It has a different meaning these days...
Very interesting love the graph.
ReplyDeleteIs the graph in the app?
Yes, the graph is part of the info that exists in the app. There's much more that can also be viewed and the ability to group by day, week, month, year and bill if so desired.
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