E7 meter just past the ‘0′ mark.
Sunday, November 4th, 2007I was walking by our electricity meter the other day, and noticed that it read “50,000 kWh” — the same number that it read when it was installed about six months ago! So, I took a photo! Since fall, we’ve been producing a lot less electricity. Partly because of the baby (more laundry, and generally more ‘use’ for the house) but the even bigger impact is the shade thats hitting our panels and cutting out production for most of the afternoon.
This is exactly what we expected — the SolarCity installer originally predicted that in the month of December, we’ll only have 37% of our possible production due to shading. Thankfully, we’ve built up >$300 credit with PG&E, and now we can start to use up that credit.
I still expect us to be nearly “net $0″ for the year, but its looking less likely that we’ll be “net 0kWh” for the year.
