Well its Earth Day Apr 22, 2009. I don’t know if its going to get a lot of press we are going to do our part and document it right here.
At 10am central I will disconnect our Oncor grid connection and run the home completely on solar pv. Weather is going to be sunny and 93′ here in Fort Worth Tx. so the test of the foam insulation, UV tinted windows and geothermal A/C will pay off.
I will post times and home status below during the day as my time permits. Solar production below is what the home is only requiring electrically from the solar arrays.
Time: Outside: Inside: Solar production: Oncor grid:
08:30 Sunny 65′ Kit72,Attic64 Shade – 118 watts Connected
09:45 Sunny 71′ Kit73,Attic73 50%sun- 815 watts Connected
10:03 Sunny 73′ Kit73,Attic76 90%sun-1015 watts Disconnected
12:05 Sunny 82′ Kit74,Attic88 100%sun-1751watts Disconnected
15:07 Sunny 90′ Kit74,Attic93 100%sun-1626watts Disconnected
17:03 Sunny 92′ Kit75,Attic98 100%sun-2015watts Disconnected
17:10 We went back on grid before the sun’s angle gets too far to the west.
All in all..things went pretty good today without the grid.
On another subject tho I’ve learned the TXU who is our local REP or Electric reseller of Oncor power hasn’t got there act together with the Net-Metering customers and its 40+ days past the original deadline of March 15th. This means that in our case all the excess power we pushed back to Oncor/Txu didn’t credit us for our current bill. Tho we reduced our usage overall approximately 83Kw is in limbo uncredited back to me. I’m told TXU management wants to make sure they do it right but they knew this was coming last year and already they blew the deadline.
From reading other forums it seems I’m not the only case in North Texas and probably not the last.
Green Mountain Energy tho does have it in writting and is crediting customers Penny for Penny.
Guess Im making a call to the PUC next week to see if I have any ground to file a complaint.
