{"id":549,"date":"2018-02-19T09:31:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T15:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life.lithoguru.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2018-02-19T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T15:31:43","slug":"solar-panels-after-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panels after One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over one year ago I turned on my solar panels at my house.\u00a0 Now that a full year of use has passed, I can assess their effectiveness.\u00a0 My goal was to generate from solar 100% of the electricity I use.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t quite make it \u2013 I generated 96% of the electricity my house consumed.\u00a0 But that included charging my electric car for the year, which means I was driving on sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>If you are anything like me, you want to geek out on all the numbers.\u00a0 So here they are.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Panels<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have 30 panels, 320 W each, for a total capacity of 9.6 kW (LG320 NeON2 MonoX Plus panels)<\/li>\n<li>Installed cost:\u00a0 $28,000<\/li>\n<li>Austin Energy Rebate:\u00a0 $7,500<\/li>\n<li>Federal tax credit: $6,100 (30 percent of the cost of the system)<\/li>\n<li>Net cost:\u00a0 $14,400<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Energy Usage and Generation for Year One<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consumed:\u00a0 13.59 MW-h<\/li>\n<li>Generated: 12.75 MW-h<\/li>\n<li>Net Consumption:\u00a0 540 kW-h<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_550\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-550\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-550\" src=\"http:\/\/life.lithoguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monthly-Solar-Generation-300x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monthly-Solar-Generation-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monthly-Solar-Generation-768x556.png 768w, https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monthly-Solar-Generation-1024x741.png 1024w, https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monthly-Solar-Generation.png 1036w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monthly generation and consumption at the Mack house in 2017<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Electric Car Energy Consumption<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nissan Leaf Miles Driven:\u00a0 ~8,000\/year<\/li>\n<li>Mileage:\u00a0 3.3 miles\/kW-h<\/li>\n<li>Approximate energy consumption:\u00a0 ~2,400 kW-h\/year (about 18% of my total house consumption)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over one year ago I turned on my solar panels at my house.\u00a0 Now that a full year of use has passed, I can assess their effectiveness.\u00a0 My goal was to generate from solar 100% of the electricity I use.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t quite make it \u2013 I generated 96% of the electricity my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}