Comments on: Gone Solar http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2008/05/13/gone-solar/ Gardens, Northwest native plants, and photography. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:22:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Jennifer Barker http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2008/05/13/gone-solar/#comment-1460 Jennifer Barker Sat, 24 May 2008 15:10:59 +0000 http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2008/05/13/gone-solar/#comment-1460 Hi Mark, Congrats on the new solar electric system! You're now taking responsibility for your home's energy usage. Doesn't it feel, excuse the pun, empowering? Please let your friends know that if they are interested in learning more about home energy production, whether on- or off-grid, they can come to SolWest Fair (http://www.solwest.org) down here in Oregon, the last weekend of July, and check out the latest technologies. Oh, and the native plants in the Strawberry Mtn. Wilderness are awesome, too! Your friend, Jennifer Hi Mark,
Congrats on the new solar electric system! You’re now taking responsibility for your home’s energy usage. Doesn’t it feel, excuse the pun, empowering?

Please let your friends know that if they are interested in learning more about home energy production, whether on- or off-grid, they can come to SolWest Fair (http://www.solwest.org) down here in Oregon, the last weekend of July, and check out the latest technologies. Oh, and the native plants in the Strawberry Mtn. Wilderness are awesome, too!
Your friend,
Jennifer

]]> By: admin http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2008/05/13/gone-solar/#comment-1461 admin Sun, 25 May 2008 23:50:20 +0000 http://turnerphotographics.com/blog/2008/05/13/gone-solar/#comment-1461 Thanks, Jennifer. It's so tempting to go out and read the display on the inverter to see how much we're generating. At this point, 13 days after switching our array on, we've generated more than twice the power we've used and that includes a bunch of partly cloudy days. Yesterday was all sunny and we generated about 29 KW cleanly and quietly. Over the last 17 years we've averaged using 17.64 KW per day. We'll come out way ahead during the long days, but come winter we'll buy some power back from PSE. Thanks, Jennifer. It’s so tempting to go out and read the display on the inverter to see how much we’re generating. At this point, 13 days after switching our array on, we’ve generated more than twice the power we’ve used and that includes a bunch of partly cloudy days. Yesterday was all sunny and we generated about 29 KW cleanly and quietly. Over the last 17 years we’ve averaged using 17.64 KW per day. We’ll come out way ahead during the long days, but come winter we’ll buy some power back from PSE.

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