Already seeing significant savings despite my PV system having only been running since the last week of June.
Already seeing significant savings despite my PV system having only been running since the last week of June.
We've been running the house on mostly PV since I got the initial install done at the end of June. I ran some smaller loads from it throughout June while I was testing the equipment, but that was kind of ad-hoc.
Just now coming out of a heat wave that started last Monday, and most of the A/C usage has been from solar. Still running from the "temporary" transfer switch hookup, so I'm not yet taking advantage of the "hybrid" aspects of the inverter. That may be a while since I have to do some more prep work before I can start installing the new breaker box and moving circuits over to that.
I've also ordered the fourth rail and 5 more panels, so I should have this upgraded from a 3KW to a 4KW system sometime later in the week. Would have ordered those earlier, but I didn't want to make the UPS guy deal with them when the heat index was 109 degrees lol. That, and I wouldn't want to deal with them in that kind of heat, either.
It's just nice seeing such significant returns this early in the process.