… I saved a lot without solar. (this is a re-post of a blog originally published in 2014) If you read my other posts, I outlined my Solar production from 33 panels on the roof of my old house in Maine. Probably too much information, but it is what it is. But recently I plotted my usage year over year; this is pure usage regardless of my Solar panel production. It looks like this: In 2012 we averaged 1,279 kwh perRead more

I installed 33 PV panels on my roof in July of 2012 and this summarizes the first three years. The panels are Canadian Solar CS6P-240M and were expertly installed by Revision Energy out of Portland, Maine. This first image shows my production for 3 years. 2012 is shown in the blue background as the graph looked funky without the first 6 months of data.  The trend is pretty clear but you can see how much things vary year-over-year. To make itRead more