jasonhc73
Cat herder, and dog toy tosser.
You mentioned you don't have gas heater right? Steve pointed out a lot of excellent other energy hogs.
Let's talk about your energy bill and reducing it by adding just solar panels, and what that will give you.
In order for you to actually "back feed" the grid, you are going to have more panels than usage.
Do you want to risk going rogue? When I had my net-meter installed, they(the power company) told me that there are probably 10 solar installs in the county for every net-meter installed. They really don't care, because those panels never make enough power to actually back feed.
The odds of you actually turning the meter backward with a 5 KW solar system are very slim, especially in a valley in southern Ohio, but not at all impossible. I am only 2° south of you (assuming you are about 39° N latitude). I have near-zero shade when the sun is shining and a perfect 180 azimuth setting.
My panels are on my 180° facing roof, tilted at 15° (I am 37.6° N Latitude; this gives me a great summer bias; way more solar summer production). I have 20 panels of ~310 wHp panels. Mission Solar and a 5kW Solar Edge inverter. The solar energy is after the meter and before the panel. My house only sees 240V, it doesn't know or care if it's grid or solar.
Are you able to "DIY"? If so, there really is not much to do this except the actual labor of installing everything. connection to the panels, the inverter, and the loads' panel, is really rather trivial.
Here you get the equivalent of what I paid $16.7K to have installed. (I think Enphase is the only way to go honestly because you are getting 240V from the panels with the microinverters, it's a much simpler design, and far easier to scale) The only way I can add more to my system is to add another inverter, and then I can add more panels. My 5K inverter with 6.2 K of panels is at its optimal max. I has clipped production, but what would actually be a trivial amount on my utility bill, like 80 cents worth.
Just review my dashboard to see how much the same(kWp) system is producing for real.
Let's talk about your energy bill and reducing it by adding just solar panels, and what that will give you.
In order for you to actually "back feed" the grid, you are going to have more panels than usage.
Do you want to risk going rogue? When I had my net-meter installed, they(the power company) told me that there are probably 10 solar installs in the county for every net-meter installed. They really don't care, because those panels never make enough power to actually back feed.
The odds of you actually turning the meter backward with a 5 KW solar system are very slim, especially in a valley in southern Ohio, but not at all impossible. I am only 2° south of you (assuming you are about 39° N latitude). I have near-zero shade when the sun is shining and a perfect 180 azimuth setting.
My panels are on my 180° facing roof, tilted at 15° (I am 37.6° N Latitude; this gives me a great summer bias; way more solar summer production). I have 20 panels of ~310 wHp panels. Mission Solar and a 5kW Solar Edge inverter. The solar energy is after the meter and before the panel. My house only sees 240V, it doesn't know or care if it's grid or solar.
Are you able to "DIY"? If so, there really is not much to do this except the actual labor of installing everything. connection to the panels, the inverter, and the loads' panel, is really rather trivial.
Here you get the equivalent of what I paid $16.7K to have installed. (I think Enphase is the only way to go honestly because you are getting 240V from the panels with the microinverters, it's a much simpler design, and far easier to scale) The only way I can add more to my system is to add another inverter, and then I can add more panels. My 5K inverter with 6.2 K of panels is at its optimal max. I has clipped production, but what would actually be a trivial amount on my utility bill, like 80 cents worth.
6.5 kW Grid Tied Solar System with Enphase IQ7+ Microinverters and 20x Mission Solar 325w Panels
UNBOUND Enphase IQ7+ Inverter Gridtie System for 20 Mission Solar 60 Cell Modules
www.wholesalesolar.com
Just review my dashboard to see how much the same(kWp) system is producing for real.
SolarEdge
monitoringpublic.solaredge.com
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