Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 19.80 kWH
Solar Energy: 660 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2222
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment: Was away for quite a bit of the day, therefore the panels were in a fixed position about half of the time

For questions mailto: roger@RJRsolar.com

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 21.00 kWH
Solar Energy: 655 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2222
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment:

For questions mailto: roger@RJRsolar.com

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 21.50 kWH
Solar Energy: 630 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2223
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment:

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 19.10 kWH
Solar Energy: 600 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2223
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment:

Time connected to the grid: 15hrs
Electricity produced: 15.00 kWH
Solar Energy: 510 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2224
Weather: Partly cloudy
Comment:

Time connected to the grid: 16hrs
Electricity produced: 17.60 kWH
Solar Energy: 630 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2223
Weather: Partly cloudy
Comment: Panels in a fixed position today.

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 17.10 kWH
Solar Energy: 540 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2223
Weather: Cloudy
Comment: Drove 59 miles today. First trip to Moscow: 39 miles. Recharged for one hour and then off to Radio Shack to buy a fuse for the new solar hot water system. That added 20 more miles. NO GAS - NO ELECTRICITY!

Time connected to the grid: 16 hrs
Electricity produced: 21.50 kWH
Solar Energy: 720 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2223
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment: Heavy electric car useage. Four trips: 80+ miles. (Each round-trip to Pullman uses about 8.5 kWH. If I were paying to recharge the car from the electrica grid, which I am not, it would cost about 44-cents.

For questions mailto: roger@RJRsolar.com

Time connected to the grid: 16 hrs
Electricity produced: 9.60 kWH
Solar Energy: 325 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2220
Weather: Cloudy & Stormy
Comment:

For questions mailto: roger@RJRsolar.com

Time connected to the grid: 14 hrs
Electricity produced: 13.60 kWH
Solar Energy: 700 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2220
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment: Production was down again today because there was no sun tracking. The array was fixed pointing south. Tomorrow we will resume full "semi-automatic" sun tracking.

For questions mailto: roger@RJRsolar.com

Time connected to the grid: 17 hrs
Electricity produced: 16.60 kWH
Solar Energy: 700 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2222
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment: Production was down about 19%, even though the sun energy available was the same, because the solar arrays were not "semi-automatically" tracking the sun. They were set and fixed at directly south.

For questions mailto: roger@RJRsolar.com

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 20.20 kWH
Solar Energy: 700 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2222
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment:

Time connected to the grid: 16 hrs
Electricity produced: 22.00 kWH
Solar Energy: 700 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2223
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment: Recharged 24 miles of driving. NO gas to buy!

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 21.70 kWH
Solar Energy: 700 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2224
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment: Recharge 48 miles of EV driving ... still with no utility buy.

Time connected to the grid: 16 hrs
Electricity produced: 21.50 kWH
Solar Energy: 700 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2224
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment: Recharged 36 miles of EV driving.

Time connected to the grid: 17 hrs
Electricity produced: 22.40 kWH - New high!
Solar Energy: 725 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2224
Weather: Clear & Sunny
Comment: Another new high

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 21.13 kWH - New high!
Solar Energy: 680 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2225
Weather: Sunny
Comment: Best day, so far!

Time connected to the grid: 16 hrs
Electricity produced: 14.42 kWH
Solar Energy: 700 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2227
Weather: Sunny
Comment:

FOR 6/10/08

Time connected to the grid: 14 hrs
Electricity produced: 5.30 kWH's
Solar Energy: 250 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2228
Weather: Overcast and rainy
Comment:

FOR Today, 6/11/08

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 8.90 kWH's
Solar Energy: 400 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2228
Weather: Partly cloudy with overcast in the morning

Time connected to the grid: 14 hrs
Electricity produced: 6.20 kWH's
Solar Energy: 250 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2228
Weather: Very nice - Overcast and rainy
Comment: What a change from yesterday!

Time connected to the grid: 16 hrs
Electricity produced: 21.06 kWH's
Solar Energy: 680 (Langley's)
Utility meter reads: 2227
Weather: Very nice - sunny
Comment: Best power production day yet!

Time connected to the grid: 16 hrs
Electricity produced: 9.90 kWH's
Solar Energy: 345 Langley's (A Langley is a unit of measurement for total solar radiation)
Utility meter reads: 2228
Weather: Overcast, rain, windy
Comment:

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 8.30 kWH's
Solar Energy: 350 Langley's (A Langley is a unit of measurement for total solar radiation)
Utility meter reads: 2227
Weather: Overcast, rain, windy ... NOT spring-like!
Comment: Two electric VW trips into Pullman

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs

Electricity produced: 7.4 kWH's

Solar Energy: 375 Langley's (A Langley is a unit of measurement for total solar radiation)

Utility meter reads: 2226

Weather: Overcast all day

Comment: I installed the fifth solar panel mounting post today. it is 48" deep in concrete, 18" in diameter, same as the others. This post will eventually have four more solar panels, making a total of twenty. For the next year, however, it will not be tied into the system, but will be used to test and develop a reliable and inexpensive sun tracking system.

Time connected to the grid: 14 hrs
Electricity produced: 14.0 kWH's
Solar Energy: 480 Langley's (A Langley is a unit of measurement for total solar radiation)
Utility meter reads: 2226
Weather: Broken high overcast
Comment:

All Dressed Up And No Place To Go

This was Inauguration Day for the system. Inland Power, our electric utility company arrived and "blessed" the system. We are now legally tied into the US power grid. For anyone buying "Green Tag" power, you are surely getting a few electrons that were generated here on the R J Ranch.

Having said the above, the weather today was absolutely terrible: Rain, rain and more rain. Almost half an inch, pretty evenly spread over the whole day. You can see by the chart, it was the lowest in solar radiation and the lowest in electrical production, for a full day's work.

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Time connected to the grid: 13 hrs

Electricity produced: 4.9 kWH's

Solar Energy: 225 Langley's (A Langley is a unit of measurement for total solar radiation)

Utility meter reads: 2226

Weather: Rainy all day. In a word: Terrible!

Comment:

Time connected to the grid: 15 hrs
Electricity produced: 16.2 kWH's
Solar Energy: 550 Langley's (A Langley is a unit of measurement for total solar radiation)
Utility meter reads: 2226 (Note gradual decrease)
Weather: Partly cloudy
Comment: "Semi-Automatic" sun tracking again today. Best production yet. Recharged VW after 23 mile drive.

Time connected to the grid: 12 hrs
Electricity produced: 10.9 kWH's
Solar Energy: 390 Langley's (A Langley is a unit of measurement for total solar radiation)
Utility meter reads: 2227
Weather: Overcast and rain unit 2PM, then mostly sunny
Comment: "Semi-Automatic" sun tracking again today. Excellent energy capture.