{"id":974,"date":"2015-09-20T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T16:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=974"},"modified":"2015-09-20T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T16:46:48","slug":"solar-power-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/solar-power-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, our solar power system has provided a little over 65% of our electrical needs. I&#8217;ve been keeping a spreadsheet of the daily electric meter readings (delivered, which is what we got from the electric company; received, which is what we shoved back <em>to<\/em> the electric company; and net, the difference, which what we&#8217;re paying for). Add on the power produced by the solar panels, and I can calculate what our consumption was and how much of that was covered by the sun.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/Screenshot-meter_readings-20150920.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/Screenshot-meter_readings-20150920.png\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>We had a string of cooler and sunny days, and without the AC running, we were able to push that electric meter backwards a good bit. I calculate that we had about 11 days of &#8220;free&#8221; (in quotes, because the system still hasn&#8217;t paid for itself yet) electricity, with our surplus offsetting some days when we had a deficit.<\/p>\n<p>As winter comes, the days will get shorter and that will eat into our production, but then again we won&#8217;t be running the AC, so we should come out ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, our solar power system has provided a little over 65% of our electrical needs. I&#8217;ve been keeping a spreadsheet of the daily electric meter readings (delivered, which is what we got from the electric company; received, which is what we shoved back to the electric company; and net, the difference, which what we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}