Interesting. What an odd way to display it. The point of charting something is so that you can tell the information at a glance. Kind of silly to have to do an analysis to understand a graph.
Just (to me anyway) not intuitive to do kW-hr per step time. Either accumulate or drop the redundant time. It seems to be normalizing to end up with another way to display the power generating capacity at any given moment.
That's one of the biggest problems with the home solar-Xcel relationship. I wish there was a better explanation of how much is produced compared to what is used from the grid. This can be pretty confusing. I asked Sunrun to give me a full run down of how to read my bills and even they were like I need to talk to Xcel.
Did you choose to bank the energy? That would only show up at the end of the year. If you asked Xcel to do continuous rolling over then excess power would be shown as a billing credit.seriously, I need to wait another month? that'll be March... I ordered this is May. I guess if that's part of the process, but just doesn't make sense to me. will see what the solar company has to say, suspect it may be the same line though, thanks Ray.
What a pain in the butt. I loath systems where there isn't good organization for solving the problem when something goes wrong. This frustration being the norm is about the only thing keeping me from tossing panels up on my roof.
You will rarely get exactly 100% from a solar panel. Their rating is based on what is known as STC, Standard Test Conditions. These are based on the temperature of the panel itself and the ambient air both being 25°C/77°F, 1,000 watt/m^2 irradiance falling upon it in an air mass (AM) of 1.5.
Yeah, that came to mind as I thought about it more. It is obvious your inverter(s) is(are) limiting, but that's not unusual, like they say, to have significant overhead DC capacity to achieve your AC rated power under marginal conditions and as panels age.
Unfortunately Tim you may have to wait until late spring or early summer to see how well you system performs? Since we (Denver) will have close to 12 to 14 hour days or sunshine your system should be maxing out pretty much. This will give you a good baseline of what the max your system should be producing daily. I exported a copy of my June 2021 production since this was the month that my system produced the maximum amount of energy for 2021. I would think this would give me and you the best bench mark to see if your system is running at max production?
No that's one of the big issues that I have with Sunrun. I have to wait until the next day most of the time to see my output. I guess if I contacted Sunrun they could tell me what the hourly production rates are but I haven't done that yet. So if you see my chart below it stops at 3-4pm. That's because the system hasn't updated yet. So later this afternoon when I check back it should show that the system last updated at 9pm last night (2/10/2022). Again that's one of the biggest caveats with solar. You almost have to go through an entire year to make sure your system is producing what it was designed for.
