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+slug: solar-one-month
+title: "Solar: One Month"
+date: "2022-11-11T11:49:14-04:00"
+
+pics:
+  dashboard-year:
+    css: "image"
+    tip: "Total energy production and consumption."
+    sources:
+      - "/files/posts/solar-one-month/dashboard-year.webp"
+      - src: "/files/posts/solar-one-month/dashboard-year.png"
+        width: 991
+        height: 657
+  dashboard-sunny:
+    css: "image"
+    tip: "Energy production and consumption on a sunny day."
+    sources:
+      - "/files/posts/solar-one-month/dashboard-sunny.webp"
+      - src: "/files/posts/solar-one-month/dashboard-sunny.png"
+        width: 992
+        height: 657
+  dashboard-cloudy:
+    css: "image"
+    tip: "Energy production and consumption on a cloudy day."
+    sources:
+      - "/files/posts/solar-one-month/dashboard-cloudy.webp"
+      - src: "/files/posts/solar-one-month/dashboard-cloudy.png"
+        width: 996
+        height: 657
+---
+
+[Enphase][] dashboard for our first month of solar:
+
+{{< pe-figure "dashboard-year" >}}
+
+The blue bars represent energy produced by the solar panels.  The orange
+bars represent energy consumed by us.  The Y axis is
+[kilowatt-hours][kwh] (pay attention to the Y axis, because the
+dashboard rescales it).
+
+According to the numbers above, the solar panels generated 78% (1 -
+117.4/538.6 = ~0.78) of our consumed energy for the month.  Virginia has
+[net metering][], so our power bill should be 21% of what it would be
+otherwise.
+
+On clear, sunny days the panels generate more energy than we consume:
+
+{{< pe-figure "dashboard-sunny" >}}
+
+And in a shocking twist that will surprise no one, on cloudy days the
+solar panels don't do very well:
+
+{{< pe-figure "dashboard-cloudy" >}}
+
+[solar]: https://pmdn.org/solar
+  "Solar array details and energy production statistics."
+[enphase]: https://enphaseenergy.com/
+  "Enphase"
+[net metering]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering
+  "Net metering"
+[kwh]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt-hour
+  "kilowatt-hour"