It's amazing how a sunny day today seems so much more appreciated than it did in the past. Don't get me wrong, sunny days are always desired, but now it means more.
This week our month-old solar network reached a milestone. Two milestones in fact.
Date: 2/21/2020
Daily Production: 65.546 KWh (Milestone #1 = Highest Daily Production)
Lifetime Energy: 1.03 MWh (Milestone#2 = Surpassing 1 Mega Watt hour Production)
I noted that on that occasion, the solar system had generated the equivalent of 40 trees being planted, or 1588 lbs. of CO2 Emissions Saved. All for a greener earth!
The differences in energy production is quite noticeable in the above daily bar chart. The three 65 KWh days between the 19-22 dates reflect close-to-the-maximum available power for those days, given the length of the day. I'm anxious to see my first real ComEd bill which will reflect the Net-Metering aspect of the solar set up. This is the mechanism to allow both self-consumption of solar energy, as well as pushing solar energy back into the ComEd grid. I'll have a blog posting to discuss this later.
We've been enjoying more sun. The days are getting longer and solar energy production is increasing. More power to the sun!
Yes it looks like your bar graf is going off the chart on those sunny days
ReplyDeleteWe have been gone 2 months and not a light on in the house and the bill reflects use what’s with that?
Yes, when the sun is out, the production is quite good and consistent across the panels.
ReplyDeleteRegarding your complaint on the ghost drain of your electric while you were on vacation, this is pretty typical. On the Sense app that we have installed, it will categorize the "always on" energy. Ours runs about 350 W every hour, every day. This drain can be many things: clocks, computers, routers for WiFi, and of course your furnace and water heater. Hard to be completely free from the energy drain of our lives...