All things Solar (merged threads)

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Hey all, thought I'd post an update on my solar install. Thursday was the two month anniversary of our meter being re-programmed for time of use. As per my previous post, I have set up a simple excel spreadsheet that I add my daily meter data to, calculating the amount I owe the electricity supplier.

As of Thursday, the electricity supplier owes me just over $3.

I was thinking about this a bit further, and working where I do I realise that the last two months are what we would consider to be a shoulder period (hence we have had a 40-day planned outage on one of our units and a minor 7-day outage on another). In the peak of winter you could reasonably expect people to be inside for longer each day and using heating. In the peak of summer, you can expect people to be using the airconditioner more in an effort to keep cool. In between these two usage would be lower but production from the solar array would be higher than winter.

Is this what people experience?

If so, then I expect that my small window of experience has been during a high-yield period and that this may not be reflective of where I will end up on an annual basis.

I can honestly say that, for the first time ever, I am actually looking forward to getting my next electricity bill!

Craig H