Great video! I spent 6 months preparing for my solar install. I switched out all lights to LED's, switched two outdated HVAC systems to high efficiency units and added additional installation and and had house roof replaced needed it, but ended up using my detatched workshop to have the solar panels mounted . Had to do a agreement with energy company and they even had to switch my transformer before I could go I could connect to grid. My system is two Sol-Ark 15K Inverters with 60 = 390 Mission Solar Panels and 42 KWH of battery storage. My system went online Feb 8th (timed it to new billing cycle) and has averages 85KWH in solar generation and out of that , sends 40 KWH back to the grid on average. Will be interesting to see Enery Bill on March 10th so I know where to make adjustment's if need , my goal is to be NET ZERO.
This is awesome! And it sounds like you did a lot of the practical low hanging fruit first before going for producing more power vs. saving it. Congrats on net zero also!
As someone that’s designed, engineered & installed solar systems from the utility scale down to residential level, I would say it makes more sense to reverse the order of projects when it comes to going solar. Obviously make sure the roof is new or in relatively new condition. Then go solar based on current annual consumption (follow the advice of researching companies on your own, don’t go to lead forms as they just end up raising the price of your solar system as he mentions in the video). The logic behind this is that your current usage is your worst case scenario. Once you go solar and then do the energy efficiency improvements, you would have reduced the consumption side of the equation as well. Utility companies are very keen on not letting you sell a lot of extra energy back to the grid (they typically cap solar offsets to
Appreciate the comments! It seems we agree on a lot. I'm still not totally clear on how you described doing it in reverse order but I think I see what you means. My point was also to get your bill down because it could literally save you thousands, perhaps $10k to $20k or more on a bigger solar system not needed due to your bill being lower to efficiency, that was my main point. A few bucks here and there, if you overproduce, will never catch up to the additional spent if that was the case. But there are a lot of good ways to go about this. As to how accurate to get on matching your existing energy use - there's so many variables. I agree on family visits, things changing etc. You do your best at the time and then let the chips fall where they may. It's like doing test in/test out with energy audits and then comparing it to energy modeling - rarely do the actual numbers match up. The LCEC monthly net meter fee was also mentioned in the video. On the AI face thing - well..that's definitely me haha. I'm new to video and it's really awkward staring at a lens for me, never done it before. But as they say - perfection is the enemy of progress, so I put it out anyway.
Hello, Thanks for your valuable video. However, you forgot to mention the benefit of using the micro inverters in the later part of the view as you had suggested initialliy in it. :-) I can search around for it. just an observation, if it helps. Kudos
It's not going green they are cool and I just bought some panels but they are not green. it takes factories that use fossil fuels that make allot of pollution to to make them.
Not green to start with anyway, nothing else. Assuming 40 years of net zero home production though, what is the crossover point where all the energy that goes into manufacturing and transporting panels + install equal your renewable production? Probably different for every home and system, but would be an interesting calculation.
Tax credits are amazing - there’s no such thing in the UK at the moment so return on investment is slow. Very envious!
Excellent video! I have been using solar since 2021 and it has been a wonderful experience.
Great video! I spent 6 months preparing for my solar install. I switched out all lights to LED's, switched two outdated HVAC systems to high efficiency units and added additional installation and and had house roof replaced needed it, but ended up using my detatched workshop to have the solar panels mounted . Had to do a agreement with energy company and they even had to switch my transformer before I could go I could connect to grid. My system is two Sol-Ark 15K Inverters with 60 = 390 Mission Solar Panels and 42 KWH of battery storage.
My system went online Feb 8th (timed it to new billing cycle) and has averages 85KWH in solar generation and out of that , sends 40 KWH back to the grid on average. Will be interesting to see Enery Bill on March 10th so I know where to make adjustment's if need , my goal is to be NET ZERO.
This is awesome! And it sounds like you did a lot of the practical low hanging fruit first before going for producing more power vs. saving it. Congrats on net zero also!
As someone that’s designed, engineered & installed solar systems from the utility scale down to residential level, I would say it makes more sense to reverse the order of projects when it comes to going solar.
Obviously make sure the roof is new or in relatively new condition. Then go solar based on current annual consumption (follow the advice of researching companies on your own, don’t go to lead forms as they just end up raising the price of your solar system as he mentions in the video). The logic behind this is that your current usage is your worst case scenario. Once you go solar and then do the energy efficiency improvements, you would have reduced the consumption side of the equation as well.
Utility companies are very keen on not letting you sell a lot of extra energy back to the grid (they typically cap solar offsets to
Appreciate the comments! It seems we agree on a lot. I'm still not totally clear on how you described doing it in reverse order but I think I see what you means. My point was also to get your bill down because it could literally save you thousands, perhaps $10k to $20k or more on a bigger solar system not needed due to your bill being lower to efficiency, that was my main point. A few bucks here and there, if you overproduce, will never catch up to the additional spent if that was the case. But there are a lot of good ways to go about this. As to how accurate to get on matching your existing energy use - there's so many variables. I agree on family visits, things changing etc. You do your best at the time and then let the chips fall where they may. It's like doing test in/test out with energy audits and then comparing it to energy modeling - rarely do the actual numbers match up. The LCEC monthly net meter fee was also mentioned in the video. On the AI face thing - well..that's definitely me haha. I'm new to video and it's really awkward staring at a lens for me, never done it before. But as they say - perfection is the enemy of progress, so I put it out anyway.
Hello, Thanks for your valuable video. However, you forgot to mention the benefit of using the micro inverters in the later part of the view as you had suggested initialliy in it. :-)
I can search around for it. just an observation, if it helps. Kudos
Thanks as well! I mentioned that I'll make another video in the future on it, and I definitely plan to since they are a big deal.
It's not going green they are cool and I just bought some panels but they are not green. it takes factories that use fossil fuels that make allot of pollution to to make them.
Not green to start with anyway, nothing else. Assuming 40 years of net zero home production though, what is the crossover point where all the energy that goes into manufacturing and transporting panels + install equal your renewable production? Probably different for every home and system, but would be an interesting calculation.