Our solar energy system finally became active today. SRP (the local power company) was here at 9:00 am, and did the final connection.<\/p>\n
Since then (it’s now 3:00pm) we have generated about 24 kWh. Of that, about 14 were sold back to SRP, and we have used about 10. <\/p>\n
They installed a new meter that was set at zero this morning. It now reads 99986, showing that net energy has flowed out. I expect that after heating the house tonight with no sun shining I will wake up and find the savings erased. I noticed that when I turned on the heat pump, the direction arrow reversed, showing that we don’t generate quite enough to run everything else in the house and the heat pump too.<\/p>\n
Peak energy during the day was 5100 watts; not bad for a winter day with the sun lower in the sky. Theoretical maximum is 8000 watts, but I will never see that due to inherent losses in the system.<\/p>\n
I’ll publish some data after it has run for a couple of days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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