[quote=Blogstar]Congratulations to you solar people, I would be excited.
Did you already have electric stove and water heaters or did you do conversions?
Do all of you have a pool? Is that a big driver for solar, the pool pumps?[/quote]No plan on switching to electric stove or electric water heater. Electric stove sucks at cooking. Electric water heater is not as efficient as natural gas water heater and natural gas is quite cheap. Even if I have enough roof space to power a water heater, that would be one expensive solution.
The pool isn’t as big of the reason as the AC. I like things cool and comfortable during the summer, so I have it set @72 degrees. Two days ago, when it was in the 90s, I have the AC running @72 degrees all day. My solar produced ~23kWh and I pulled ~29kWh from the grid. So, my total power usage was ~52kWh for that day, but I only have to pay for 29kWh of it. If that usage is the same for 30 days straight, the savings would be drastic. I would have been deep into Tier 4 without solar, but with solar, I would still be in Tier 3. But luckily, that’s usually not the case. Month to date, I’ve only used ~55kWh.
