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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Stats from our solar in March:
Overall power usage of 295.11 kWh, of which solar accounted for 40% of that at 116.92 kWh.
The solar itself produced 355.12 kWh and 238.2 kWh was exported onto the grid.
A lot of the power usage when solar isn't available was the furnace turning on in the early morning and on cloudy/colder days, plus the oven/electric stovetop as another big draw. Looking forward to the warmer months when the furnace won't even go on, could easily see solar going well over 50% of our coverage.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but the reason you can't use 100% solar energy is because you aren't allowed to store the energy you produced? So you are forced to use grid energy essentially whenever it's dark out.
I wonder if you could MacGyver 12 car batteries together and use that, unbeknownst to the authorities.