Note - wrote this on Friday but apparently never published it :D
Got my electric bill for February 2023. Considering the last 7 days of the billing cycle my panels were snow covered, I came out pretty good. First off, my production report for the exact time frame that my electric bill is for. The solar company and electric company are off just a little from each other. But let's just assume that the 330 shown in the circle below was my total consumption.
Power company says I pulled 244 kwh while solar company says I pulled 248 kwh. Electric company says I pushed 180 kwh while solar company says I pushed 176 kwh. All in all, close enough for me.
The power company shows my net usage as 64 kwh and total charges were $35.65
So in February, a low production month (but with the sun angle better than Dec. & Jan.), nearly 64% of the bill ($22.71) was the basic costumer charge and other charges that were not the actual cost of energy consumed.
Solar company shows, total usage was 330 kwh (just so you don't have to go back to look). Last Sept, prior to the array install, I used 338 kwh and my bill was $119.62.
I didn't pay the electric company $80 in a low production month (the math comes out to $84, but I subtracted some for the 8 kwh difference). Can't complain about that.
It has snowed every day this week and have a big storm coming in tonight, so won't have any production at all for March until some time next week. Actually, not technically true; had minimal production yesterday afternoon when some panels mostly cleared and should get some today. But with the sun angle getting better every day, production should be stellar when the snow finally stops and the array clears.
Not bad. Not bad at all. Aren't you glad you decided to go ahead with installing solar? Yee-ha.
Posted by: Cop Car | March 05, 2023 at 07:42 PM