This is after having tons of solar panels too LMAO

  • FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Did you try to size your solar panels to your usage or are you doing small scale solar?

    I’ve been thinking about solar, but the prices are pretty harsh, especially without the federal credits.

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      I don’t think I can get the amount of panels needed, as-is my system can produce about 700-800 watts in a good sunny month (which the month they used wasn’t really, it was Feb and it produced about 600-650)

      But my electric company has some dumbass arbitrary limit on the amount panels the professional installers have to follow and I’m pretty sure I’m close to it

      I’ve been meaning to check out this “unofficial” DIY plugin solar stuff, but haven’t gotten to it yet lol

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        But my electric company has some dumbass arbitrary limit on the amount panels the professional installers have to follow and I’m pretty sure I’m close to it

        This is what I faced too. The power company only allowed to install solar generation capacity 110% of my power consumption over the last 12 months. So we had to spent a year being very wasteful of electricity. That allowed me to put up panels covering the entire roof.