Monday, March 19, 2007

Generating our own ELECTRICITY!

Above is a view of the Great Room painted, and below is the meter showing our PV system generating almost its second kW of electricity. The problem is that the utility company hooked up the wrong meter to our house and it will not go in both directions. So we will need to have Duke Energy come back out and replace the meter with one that moves in both directions. It was kind of a bummer to see the inside meter showing the system generating electricity, but the outside meter not going backwards.


Above is the PV system connect to the utility power. From left to right you see our main breaker panel which is being fed from the utility. Next to that on top is the inverter that receives DC power from the solar panels and converts it to AC power and sends it back to the house through the breaker panel. Below the inverter is the PV array power meter that monitors how much power we are producing. Today was really sunny so the meter was really crankin'! On the right is the DC disconnect.

Below is another view of the Great Room.

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