Today we got so attached 18 solar panels on our roof. We are thus the first house on our way which will henceforth produce and consume electricity produced from solar energy.
Lise and I have long worked with the idea of ​​being able to produce any of our energy from solar energy, as you here in the United States also are waking up to alternative energy sources. The last few years we have also purchased around. 7% of our electricity produced by wind turbines. As you probably have read in the newspaper, President Obama is very focused on non-polluting energy and has already closed are few coal-fired electricity plants, but since it is in part due to the construction of new mijlø real power, and the fact that partly built more and more houses, and that energy consumption is soaring, so then electricity prices also started to rise here in the US. Some places pretty powerful like. I California.
I know that our electricity prices compared to Danish conditions continues to be low, but to get the situation forestall while we got an offer we could not refuse, so then it was now.
Briefly,, so the manufacturer has calculated that the above installation could produce approximately. 92% of our current energy consumption. Compare with the current price of electricity from the utility company, we will save between 20 and 30%.
Our purchase price for electricity produced by the solar thermal system is thus also to the next 20 år med kun en meget begrænset stigning hvis nogen 🙂
Below some photos of the installation.

bell is about. 08.15, Vivint Solar has just arrived and started installation. The first phase is mounting bracket as the panels must be mounted on and secured to.

Then start the installation of the panels, first on the rooftop and then on the garage roof. It is incredible that the panels are not damaged by montørene go on them, but they can keep the fine.

At around. 13.00, is montørene finish the installation. Then start the second phase carried out by Viviant's electrician team. It is the cable work between the individual panels, and assembly of the new boards that will connect the solar thermal system with sufficient harness to the house.

At around. 17.00 Both teams finished with both the exterior and interior mounting, and connection of the solar thermal system to our house. The next phase is inspection which partly Frederick municipality, and the power plant must approve the plant. Then everything is ready to use and hopefully many years of cheap electricity. When they left us let the plant is running in test mode. I can see that the plant's second day produced 82Kw. On average, we should consume 40 Kw per dag, It will be interesting.