Happy new year. We went through the joys of building a house 21 years ago. It takes a while, but you learn a lot. I'll be interested to hear about your solar as we got ours last year. Always good to see you on Hive and you are a core part of the community.
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Thanks Steve! Solar will be put up in feb/march I think. Currently just storms, snow and rain, so no "solar revenue" anyhow. As we have quite some shade and varied sunny spots due to nearby trees, I think we go for the micro inverters e.g. by Enphase. Plus I would love to make the system "off the grid"-able. Do you have fancy batteries and such?
We have a fairly big battery, but cannot operate off grid. The supply is pretty reliable and we need the grid for charging the car. Although we're not getting much sun I can charge up the battery on cheap rate to keep costs down. Come the summer we will be exporting a lot. We have a west-facing roof with no shade. There's a single inverter for it all.
ok that sounds very nice. Also to partly charge the car just with solar :)
It might take a couple of days of bright sun to fully charge the car. At least in summer I will probably export more than I consume.