{"id":576,"date":"2019-02-01T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life.lithoguru.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2019-02-01T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T12:57:00","slug":"solar-panels-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panels, Year 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What a difference one year makes.  2017 was my first year with solar panels, and I was very proud that I generated 96% of the electricity I used for the year (including the charging of my electric car &#8211; driving on sunshine!).  Last year was not as astonishing, though still good.  I generated 81% of my total home electric consumption.  What changed?  Consumption was up 6% in 2018, due to a much hotter summer (in Texas, AC is the big electricity hog).  But even bigger, generation was down 10% due to many more cloudy days.  I suspect that these two results will be the extremes, and about 90% generated solar power will be about average.  I&#8217;m still happy with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference one year makes. 2017 was my first year with solar panels, and I was very proud that I generated 96% of the electricity I used for the year (including the charging of my electric car &#8211; driving on sunshine!). Last year was not as astonishing, though still good. I generated 81% of [&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-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}