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Re: 10 mega-watt hours

From Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: 10 mega-watt hours
Date 2016-10-07 14:27 -0700
Organization Rowland Institute
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makolber@yahoo.com wrote...
>
>>> Winfield Hill wrote:
>>>
>>>>  The production meter for our solar roof just
>>>>  ticked over past 10MWh.  That's a pretty
>>>>  serious amount of power to generate in the
>>>>  9.5 months since switching on the system.
>
> did I do the math right?
> That's about $157 worth of electricity per month?
> or about $2k per year.

 Almost, we pay about $0.20/kWh, so 10MWh = $2k
 and over 12 months we might save $2.2 to 2.3k.

> How much did the system cost you?  A. $34k
>
> How much did it cost us taxpayers?

 $10k.  The 30% Residential Energy Credit
 program** was recently extended a few more
 years by the Republican house and senate.

 Anyway, my interest is in the power generated;
 it's sobering to realize those pieces of glass
 on my roof are making so much energy.

 ** tax form 5695


-- 
 Thanks,
    - Win

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10 mega-watt hours Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-07 11:16 -0700
  Re: 10 mega-watt hours Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2016-10-07 14:13 -0500
    Re: 10 mega-watt hours Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2016-10-07 12:41 -0700
      Re: 10 mega-watt hours makolber@yahoo.com - 2016-10-07 13:08 -0700
        Re: 10 mega-watt hours Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-07 14:27 -0700
      Re: 10 mega-watt hours Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-07 14:09 -0700
        Re: 10 mega-watt hours Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2016-10-07 14:18 -0700
          Re: 10 mega-watt hours Ralph Barone <ralph@invalid.com> - 2016-10-07 22:40 +0000
            Re: 10 mega-watt hours Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-07 16:42 -0700
              Re: 10 mega-watt hours Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2016-10-07 17:35 -0700
                Re: 10 mega-watt hours Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2016-10-08 09:09 -0700
                Re: 10 mega-watt hours John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2016-10-08 09:53 -0700
                Re: 10 mega-watt hours Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2016-10-08 11:10 -0700
                Re: 10 mega-watt hours Bob Engelhardt <BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> - 2016-10-09 12:30 -0400
                Re: 10 mega-watt hours Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2016-10-09 10:26 -0700
                Re: 10 mega-watt hours Ralph Barone <ralph@invalid.com> - 2016-10-08 23:38 +0000
                Re: 10 mega-watt hours Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2016-10-08 18:13 -0700
                Re: 10 mega-watt hours Ralph Barone <ralph@invalid.com> - 2016-10-09 05:02 +0000
                Re: 10 mega-watt hours Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2016-10-08 23:29 -0700
          Re: 10 mega-watt hours Chris Jones <lugnut808@spam.yahoo.com> - 2016-10-09 11:42 +1100
  Re: 10 mega-watt hours Martin Riddle <martin_ridd@verizon.net> - 2016-10-07 17:30 -0400
    Re: 10 mega-watt hours Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-07 17:14 -0700
      Re: 10 mega-watt hours Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-10-11 10:28 -0500
        heatpump vs furnace Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-12 05:57 -0700
          Re: heatpump vs furnace bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2016-10-12 07:33 -0700
            Re: heatpump vs furnace "dcaster@krl.org" <dcaster@krl.org> - 2016-10-12 17:41 -0700
              Re: heatpump vs furnace bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2016-10-12 18:26 -0700
                Re: heatpump vs furnace "dcaster@krl.org" <dcaster@krl.org> - 2016-10-13 06:45 -0700
              Re: heatpump vs furnace Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-12 18:57 -0700
                Re: heatpump vs furnace bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2016-10-12 22:36 -0700
                Re: heatpump vs furnace Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-13 03:57 -0700
          Re: heatpump vs furnace Ecnerwal <MyNameForward@ReplaceWithMyVices.Com.invalid> - 2016-10-12 10:33 -0400
            Re: heatpump vs furnace Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-12 09:46 -0700
              Re: heatpump vs furnace Ecnerwal <MyNameForward@ReplaceWithMyVices.Com.invalid> - 2016-10-12 14:39 -0400
          Re: heatpump vs furnace Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2016-10-12 08:10 -0700
            Re: heatpump vs furnace Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-12 09:39 -0700
          Re: heatpump vs furnace makolber@yahoo.com - 2016-10-12 13:02 -0700
            Re: heatpump vs furnace Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-13 06:10 -0700
          Re: heatpump vs furnace "David Eather" <eather@tpg.com.au> - 2016-10-15 14:47 +1000
            Re: heatpump vs furnace krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2016-10-15 10:56 -0400
              Re: heatpump vs furnace "David Eather" <eather@tpg.com.au> - 2016-10-17 12:47 +1000
                Re: heatpump vs furnace krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2016-10-17 19:50 -0400
  Re: 10 mega-watt hours sean.c4s.vn@gmail.com - 2016-10-12 06:13 -0700
  Re: 10 mega-watt hours Yzordderrex <powersupplyguy@netzero.net> - 2016-10-13 07:52 -0700
    Re: 10 mega-watt hours Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-13 08:09 -0700
      Re: 10 mega-watt hours Yzordderrex <powersupplyguy@netzero.net> - 2016-10-14 03:05 -0700
        Re: 10 mega-watt hours Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-10-14 05:52 -0700

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