petee_c
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Hey all,
I'm meeting with a Solar installer via Google meets this Thursday to begin preliminary discussions on getting a solar array installed on my home. I am in SW Ontario, Canada. at approximately 43.5degrees N Latitude.
My southern facing roof is about 185-190degrees... I have large trees on the neighbors properties to the south. This is clipped from google maps the image must have been from a couple years ago Looks to be mid summer?. There have been some changes that I'll list in the below picture.
The 3 red X's mark 3 ash trees that are now gone. Orange X is a blue spruce that is gone. Purple X is play structure that has been removed. The purple circle is the neigbors Maple that will shade part of my southern roof during the afternoon....
In 2021, we used 13386kwh (cost $1876 cdn) of electricity throughout the year. In late 2022, I am hopefully going to be driving a EV which will use about 3900kwh of electricity per year (20,000km/yr). I want the system to pay for itself within 10 yrs. We have net metering in Ontario, and no other incentives that I can find. I can pay cash for the system, unless there are some really good financing somewhere, but my municipality doesn't over anything at the moment....
My rough guesstimates are I can put about a
4.7kw array on the South roof
2.7kw array on the East Roof
3.4kw array on the West roof (the west roof is angled about 280degrees, so a touch to the North) I can fit more panels on the West roof, but not sure where the most cost effective number is.)
I estimate the roof to have about a 30deg pitch all around, though I am just eyeballing it from the street.
PVWatts estimates that this should get me about 12500kwh/yr of solar if I can place them in spots that minimize effects of the shading.... I am a little worried about the blue spruce remaining in the front of the house. (Seen near the SE corner of the house), but I went out yesterday morning (Feb 12 @ 1034am) and it didn't shade the roof too much; so maybe I can better put panels on the East roof (~100 degrees)
Picture of South roof at 1030am on Feb 12.
Any thoughts?
I'm meeting with a Solar installer via Google meets this Thursday to begin preliminary discussions on getting a solar array installed on my home. I am in SW Ontario, Canada. at approximately 43.5degrees N Latitude.
My southern facing roof is about 185-190degrees... I have large trees on the neighbors properties to the south. This is clipped from google maps the image must have been from a couple years ago Looks to be mid summer?. There have been some changes that I'll list in the below picture.
The 3 red X's mark 3 ash trees that are now gone. Orange X is a blue spruce that is gone. Purple X is play structure that has been removed. The purple circle is the neigbors Maple that will shade part of my southern roof during the afternoon....
In 2021, we used 13386kwh (cost $1876 cdn) of electricity throughout the year. In late 2022, I am hopefully going to be driving a EV which will use about 3900kwh of electricity per year (20,000km/yr). I want the system to pay for itself within 10 yrs. We have net metering in Ontario, and no other incentives that I can find. I can pay cash for the system, unless there are some really good financing somewhere, but my municipality doesn't over anything at the moment....
My rough guesstimates are I can put about a
4.7kw array on the South roof
2.7kw array on the East Roof
3.4kw array on the West roof (the west roof is angled about 280degrees, so a touch to the North) I can fit more panels on the West roof, but not sure where the most cost effective number is.)
I estimate the roof to have about a 30deg pitch all around, though I am just eyeballing it from the street.
PVWatts estimates that this should get me about 12500kwh/yr of solar if I can place them in spots that minimize effects of the shading.... I am a little worried about the blue spruce remaining in the front of the house. (Seen near the SE corner of the house), but I went out yesterday morning (Feb 12 @ 1034am) and it didn't shade the roof too much; so maybe I can better put panels on the East roof (~100 degrees)
Picture of South roof at 1030am on Feb 12.
Any thoughts?