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August solar production

tpepper — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:45:03 +0000

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.

Finally a sunny month!

tpepper — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:55:34 +0000

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

Where is summer?

tpepper — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:05:12 +0000

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%.

Sunny spring continues to be good for solar production

tpepper — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:41:53 +0000

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.

Great February for solar power in Oregon

tpepper — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:52:11 +0000

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 →

Three megawatt (hours)

myiphone — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:45:38 +0000

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.

Self-produced 77% of electricity consumed in May

tpepper — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:50:17 +0000

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% of what we’re consuming!

There was more Oregon-typical spring weather in the first half of the month which dragged the average for the month down to “only” 77%.

46% of our electricity home-made in April

tpepper — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:51:55 +0000

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 →

30% in March

tpepper — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:32:22 +0000

The numbers for March are a bit convoluted due to the meter being switched out by PGE half way through the month. When the next bill comes I assume it will show the final value from the old meter. I don’t have that number. It shouldn’t amount to even a 1% difference I’d think given our normal daily consumptions, but from what I do have it looks like 30% of the electricity our household consumed in March was generated on our very own roof.

22.4% of our electricity in February from solar panels

tpepper — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:54:20 +0000

Another month and another set of stats off the solar panels: February saw 22.4% of our household consumption coming from the panels. We’ve had rather sunny weather, but it’s amazing how quickly the days become longer this time of year … Continue reading →