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Our solar panels produced 312kWh’s in August. Respectable, though not as good as last year. The month was similar to this year’s June in some respects…pretty murky weather at times.

Our solar panels put out 340kWh worth of electricity this month.

June was very dreary. The solar panels produced only 243kWh’s for the month. Their production last year was starting to approach 100% of what our household consumed. This year that ratio is probably around 30%.

March in northwest Oregon had a lot of sunny weather again like last month. We produced 227kWh’s of electricity. This month that amounts to about 34% of what our household consumed.

Our panels produced 173 kWh this month. I don’t actually know what our consumption was, but probably this works out to a production equivalent to something like 25% of our consumption. Not bad for the middle of winter in our … Continue reading →

A bit over a year and we’ve produced over 3MWh’s of power. The PV system’s working right to spec. Now I’m thinking of getting a solar water heater later this year.

The past two weeks were very summery for May in Oregon. But they give us an early idea of what our June/July/August solar production and electricity bill will look like…We’re currently producing electricity at a rate that is roughly 100% … Continue reading →

The days keep getting longer and more sunny. April here ended with two great days for solar power which meant the month left us having 46% of the electricity we used coming from our PV panels. April 30th we actually … Continue reading →