Yeah, I searched and searched and thought I was ''SOLAR SMART!'' No, no indeed!
I originally contracted for 25 Canadian 400W panels with Enphase IQ8+ inverters with a maximum continuous output of 190W. Spent close to $15K for tree removal and was getting more anxious by the day. Heck, even printed out the annual expected solar hours per day. The more I thought about this the greedier I got thinking of all the $----$ I could get from my electric company for Net Grid. So just before my installation started I upped my panel count from 25 to 28 and later felt I should have gone with 30+ panels. And by no means did I want power clipping so out with the IQ8+'s and in with the Iq8A's. My system has balls......but!
These spring/summer months were good to me! Heck, my system was activated on 20 October 22 and as I type it has produced 8100KWHs and there are 3 1/2 months of future production before I rack up my first full year. I now enjoy a net grid benefit from Eversource Electric Company of $1,160.89 of NET GRID DOLLARS!!! My installed system cost $34,500 big ones so with this net grid bucks plus the Fed 30% tax benefit along with Massachusetts' $1000 tax credit AND NET GRID, I figured my system would pay for itself in just over 6 years. OH, Massachusetts also offers a Smart Program (peanuts) of $0.25/produced KWH minus whatever the local electric company charges per KWH. Eversouce was about 25-26 cents/KWH most of the spring so go figure.
Getting back to Net Grid!!!! Yes indeed, all unused produced KWH's can be sold back to the electric companies-----------yeah, the electric companies convert those unused hours to bucks CREDIT, not BUCKS into my pocket!!! Someone once called me a smartass. GEES, he was so right
Foggy
I originally contracted for 25 Canadian 400W panels with Enphase IQ8+ inverters with a maximum continuous output of 190W. Spent close to $15K for tree removal and was getting more anxious by the day. Heck, even printed out the annual expected solar hours per day. The more I thought about this the greedier I got thinking of all the $----$ I could get from my electric company for Net Grid. So just before my installation started I upped my panel count from 25 to 28 and later felt I should have gone with 30+ panels. And by no means did I want power clipping so out with the IQ8+'s and in with the Iq8A's. My system has balls......but!
These spring/summer months were good to me! Heck, my system was activated on 20 October 22 and as I type it has produced 8100KWHs and there are 3 1/2 months of future production before I rack up my first full year. I now enjoy a net grid benefit from Eversource Electric Company of $1,160.89 of NET GRID DOLLARS!!! My installed system cost $34,500 big ones so with this net grid bucks plus the Fed 30% tax benefit along with Massachusetts' $1000 tax credit AND NET GRID, I figured my system would pay for itself in just over 6 years. OH, Massachusetts also offers a Smart Program (peanuts) of $0.25/produced KWH minus whatever the local electric company charges per KWH. Eversouce was about 25-26 cents/KWH most of the spring so go figure.
Getting back to Net Grid!!!! Yes indeed, all unused produced KWH's can be sold back to the electric companies-----------yeah, the electric companies convert those unused hours to bucks CREDIT, not BUCKS into my pocket!!! Someone once called me a smartass. GEES, he was so right
Foggy
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