2024 Solar Scorecard: How did you your system do this year?

[OzSolar]

20.9 + 5.2 =26.1 MWh's across a mixture of systems. We get around 90% of energy from the sun then like many of us the short often cloudy days increase our reliance on the grid.

 

[Mattb4]

I don't do all the fancy monitoring so have no color graphs or real numbers to display. But my scorecard has been that I achieved Aircon, electric clothes dryer and fairly close to zeroing any grid usage. Not a bad 2024 although some choices I made did not work out and a different tack was taken. If nothing else it gave me a purpose and provided many hours of blood, sweat and tears. What more can a person ask for?

 

[mactech]

I didn't start monitoring the 48v system until late July and it's only powering the computers, telescopes, cameras in the observatory, the pool pump in summer. The older 24v system is a 7.5kwh backup.

Using the grid to keep a small ceramic heater warming the shed. Powering some heating pads for when it gets really cold ( like this coming week ) and just added a diesel heater. Spring will be here soon, since being old, time flies all too fast…

Happy New Year

 

[DougfromdaUP]

I used 7,174 kWh of ac power in 2024 and had to buy 264 kWh, or 3.7%.

I have 14 kW of panels installed, all ground mounted with little shade, voltage drop, connector losses, etc.

For the bad two months, November and December, I can only get half of the PV watts prediction. For the rest of the year I handily beat it. I think PVWatts underestimates our early winter cloud cover, as I live on a small peninsula that juts up into Lake Superior and my small area is greatly influenced by the lake.

My utility wouldn't give me a cogeneration agreement since I wanted enough panels to provide reliable backup power(my original motive for going solar,) so the 7.2 MWh is way less than I could generate if I had larger loads or net metering.

 

[bhbaker220]

Generated 5.8 MWh from 5700 w of panels in 2024. Moved panels higher on roof to optimize winter production which sucks from tree shading. Hope to add another 2400 w of panels in 2025.

 

[Robbert]

Just a little under 15.000 kWh.
With 8 more panels and an additional battery I can bring my electricity bill down to almost 0.

 

[NC_hydro]

System went online in September. 4.3KW array laying flat, added another 3.9KW of panels laying flat in beginning of October, added another 3.9KW of panels later in October for a total of 12.1KW. All laying flat on a slight north slope.

 

[MattMan119]

First year with my solar system, and I only have 3 months and 10 days. But 2.8MWh made with 856KWh of grid .. I made so many changes in those 4 months I look forward to how that grid number should drop this year.. it was 23% of my power in 2024, but already down to 18% this year and should go much lower. Great thread …very interesting to see how we all did ..

 

[ksmithaz1]

There was a handful of days where I used a modicum of grid, No way it was more than about 50KWH. Other than that I've been 100% off the grid.

 

[vietxtlife]

8.1 mwh pv and 782kwh from grid