In the third part of this series, I provided detail about the solar panel array that we plan to have installed on the roof of our new home. In this post I’ll provide a very quick update on that, based on new information that we gathered during the on-site survey by the installer.
The installer did a follow-up site survey mid last month, and unfortunately came to the conclusion that our roof space wasn’t quite sufficient to handle 24 panels on the south face, or 6 panels on the east face. Their revised assessment left us with a total array size of 26 panels, with 23 on the south and 3 on the east. After discussing this with my wife, we decided to forego the 3 east-facing panels. The 1.29kW of generation capacity from these 3 panels didn’t seem worth the extra cost or the additional holes in the roof. We’ll now have a 9.89kW array, with an estimated annual production of 10.24MWh. This is still above our current estimated consumption, so I’m happy with that.
I signed a contract and placed our deposit with the installer in late August, so at this point we’re in the waiting period. All of the permits have been requested, the equipment has been ordered, the payment to the local power company has been submitted to get a net-metering meter kit, and I’ve been prepping the walls in the garage to get them ready for equipment installation (more on that later). Hopefully we’ll have a date for the installation work soon, and will have everything in by the end of this month (September 2024). It would be great to have juice flowing by October!
More info coming up about the battery system decision and what went into that.
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