As the most of you know we have been moved to another village. In our old home we had solar panels installed. In our new home I also wanted solar panels because of the environmental cause and of course because we being of the natural gas, we use a lot more electricity and cause of that I for sure want to create my own :)
so after placement of out dormers the Solar panel installation company arrived (finally, yeaah). They started at six o莽lock in the morning because of the heat that was expected during the day. At our new home the roof is quiet low, so for the guys it was a lot easier. They started to put on the aluminium frame on the tiles.
Our roof is a so called 'east-west' roof. Which means it isn't completely on the south, which is the best for panels, so to have the most benefit of the sun the divided the solar panels on both sides of the roof. A few on the east side (for the morning sun) and the rest on the west side for the rest of the day.
The guys were working really fast and things were really looking good.
This is the east side of the roof with the result of placing the panels.
And this is the west side of the roof.
We have 39 panels in total which will bring us a capacity round about 8000KWH to 8500KWH a year. Which should be enough to stay of the use of electricity of the electricity company.
The inverter is a Huawai SUN2000 8KTL which can reside four different panel groups, with our roof three panel groups were enough. The divide them into groups because when some panels are in shadow and not performing ultimate, the decrease the other panels as well (total capacity), so they made three groups so we can have the best performance possible.
I (of course) was used to the revenue of the 14 panels we had in our own home, they were doing well but these new panels have more capacity in ammount (39 panels) but also in individual performance. I was glad to see the revenue yesterday evening of already being 50KW of power. Much more we even use on a day like this.
When you over-produce you put your electricity right back in to the network of your provider and get paid for it for about 0,21 euro per kw. So bring on the sun :)
Have a great day,
Peter
