Dan's Solar Blog
My solar panel installation day and experience with going green.

Posts Tagged ‘solar panels

New SCE Meter installed and Happy Thanksgiving!

November 24, 2011

I went to watch my meter spin backwards and I saw a brand new digital Smart Meter from Itron. I hope it is compatible with solar panel systems. smart meter Does anyone know? A year ago they did not install a smart meter since it was not compatible with solar panels. Maybe this new one [...]

Solar panel system output for this past week! One year and several months into my going green on my roof!

November 23, 2011

Solar panel system output for this past week! One year and several months into my going green on my roof! Which days were cloudy or rainy, can you guess?

Solar panel production on a gray cloudy day

November 19, 2011

Someone asked me yesterday, what kind of production do I make on a day with heavy gray clouds. I told him usually 2 to 10 kWh. Here is the graph for yesterday, 11/18/11.

Free Solar! Pinball! Green Expo!

October 30, 2011

Free Solar! Yes, it is free! I saved over $900 my first year. My friend Robert saved over $200. My neighbor is saving everyday. Another friend plans to save over $2000 per year. We all went solar and love it. Our net outflow is way less than last year. We have extra money to spend [...]

Solar panel output for the week

October 24, 2011

Here is the week at a glance from my solar panels here in Moreno Valley, a 3.7kW system from Sungevity (lease) and using Sharp 235W panels.

Oct. 3rd solar output graph

October 3, 2011

Here is the graph from Oct. 3rd. It was cloudy.

Bar graphs vs. line graphs

October 2, 2011

Well, for now I must get used to the new solar bar graphs till the line graphs come back. I am working on getting the line graphs back since they provide more usable data than the bar graphs do. The bar graphs are good for the monthly and yearly charts. The weekly charts were more [...]

9/24/11

September 24, 2011

Solar output graph is the typical day with no clouds and a perfect bell-shaped curve, 20kWh for my 3.7 kW system. Not bad for Fall.

Solar panel output results for 9/18 and 9/19/11

September 19, 2011

Here are the solar panel output results for the last two days. Busy, busy teaching.

Early September solar output graphs

September 8, 2011

Here are the solar output graphs for my solar panel system for the last few days. One day was really rainy, a monsoon day. Can you guess which one? Smile.

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