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It was soooo rainy in December 2010. We recorded 14.68in of rain at our house for the month! With that record high rainfall (supposedly the most since at least 1996) comes a record low for our solar panels…maybe 6-7% of … Continue reading →

We’re into the really dark days up here between the 45th and 46th parallels. Which translates into looow monthly solar electricity output for our rooftop panels.

The days are getting shorter again and our solar production is tending back down. We’ve had a decent amount of sun lately. I’d love it if mother nature chose to give us a very sunny October. Beyond that making for … Continue reading →

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 →