Mikedrives
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Is anybody doing this where you can sell the juice back to the utility? When do you get to the break-even point?
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17,000 watt hours is 17kwh or 17 kilowatt hours. the next day is over 15kwh. This time of year is max for many on net metering because we have just started using ac a little. Depending on your houses orientation and shade issues, June 30 should be close to your max day and month for pure production. If you have or plan to get electric cars, I am wondering why you didn’t go for a larger system, and also think heat pump too.OK so I got my solar tile roof back in Feb and the team did a fantastic job putting it on. Granted it took longer than expected but the end result is better than I was hoping for. There were some changes in the electrical scheduled prior to final permitting when... COVID came along. So I have a finished roof over my head, but I'm technically not "on the grid". I have no data in the Tesla app yet because it hasn't been finaled.
Well I wanted to try things out so I turned it on and it works! And I have numbers that seem pretty much insanely high. I wanted to see if I'm reading this the wrong way.
I have two inverters, one for each side of my roof. From the picture, the visible side gets the morning sun. The opposite side (which is uninterrupted because it has no dormer window) gets the afternoon sun.
If I'm looking at the data the right way, I'm consistently getting > 40kWh generation per day! The specs said it'd be just over 10kWh. What's wrong (or right)??? Of course I turned it off after a few days of testing...
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The shingles do look great!17,000 watt hours is 17kwh or 17 kilowatt hours. the next day is over 15kwh. This time of year is max for many on net metering because we have just started using ac a little. Depending on your houses orientation and shade issues, June 30 should be close to your max day and month for pure production. If you have or plan to get electric cars, I am wondering why you didn’t go for a larger system, and also think heat pump too.
Well, because of the reduced air pollution in our neck of the woods due to the lock-down, when the sun is out, the sky is really clear and blue.
No smog, no contrails.
Is anybody doing this where you can sell the juice back to the utility? When do you get to the break-even point?
Is anybody doing this where you can sell the juice back to the utility? When do you get to the break-even point?
Can you post some more pictures of the roof? I am just starting on my Solar Roof and the shingles look like there is quite a glare or shine on them and curious if it is just the sun hitting that section or they have that look all the time.
curious how fireman handle those roofs
that was interesting. Raises 1 more question. They showed the tiles can be flipped up. What keeps them from flipping up in high winds?
I have solar panels 16 facing 122 degrees, 16 facing 212 degrees and 3 facing 302 degrees. Although pure south might give you higher production, given peak pricing periods there is a benefit to facing south-west.
Exactly. A similar sized solar panel system is going to out perform a solar roof. A bunch of the solar roof is probably north facing so not as ideal.
is every tile solar?