At the end of April, I reported that out meter read 5720 kilowatt hours. Last night, once the sun went down, it read 7693. So we generated 1973 kilowatt hours. That is still short of the 2151 projected by PVwatts. It is 91.7 percent – much better than any other month, so far, but still shy of what we would have hoped.
Just how dismal has this winter been for making money from solar power? Consider the performance of our solar panels so far. They began operation November 23, 2011. They have not performed well.
The reality of solar panels in the Canadian winter is that they face the same ice and snow that our cars, our houses and we, ourselves, face. How this affects you – the solar panel owner – depends on whether you have a rooftop installation or ground-mounted panels. If you have rooftop solar panels, mounted…
