In the last few days, Array-C has been brought online and is now producing power for the farm. It does not have any loads on it just yet, but it is up and running and fully charged its battery in half a day. So should soon show some good stats to join these posts.
In the month of June we produced 1622 kWh (1.62 Mwh) on the farm.
Array A production stats:
Load: 1210.3 kWh
PV: 395 kWh
Grid Import: 1713.1 kWh
Battery Charge: 243.9 kWh
Battery Discharge: 103.7 kWh
Array A build:
System Size = 5.5 kWp DC
Panels = Sungoldpower Monocryalline 60 cell (12 Panels, 450 Watts each)
Mounting System = Brightmount EG4 screwed into 6x6 timbers
Wiring: 1x 8 AWG 19 strand PV direct bury wire pair
Inverters = 2x Sol-Ark 15k all-in-ones (240V)
Battery Backup = 48 3.2v EVE LF280 LiFePO4 280AH batteries
Battery Management system = Daly Smart BMS 16S 48V 500A
Battery Capacity = 45.696 kWh (840AH)
Propane Generator = Briggs and Stratton Power Protect 26kw
Array B production stats:
Load: 2778.3 kWh
PV: 1227 kWh
Grid Import: 1651.5 kWh
Battery Charge: 313.1 kWh
Battery Discharge: 284.3 kWh
Array B build:
System Size = 9 kWp DC
Panels = Sungoldpower Monocrystalline 60 cell (20 Panels, 450 Watts each)
Mounting System = Brightmount EG4 screwed into 6x6 timbers
Wiring: 2x 8 AWG 19 strand PV direct bury wire pair
Inverters = Sol-Ark 15k all-in-one (240V)
Battery Backup = 48 3.2v LiFePO4 290AH batteries (unknown brand)
Battery Management system = Daly Smart BMS 16S 48V 250A
Battery Capacity = 47.328 kWh (870AH)
Propane Generator = Briggs and Stratton Power Protect 22kw
Totals combined for all arrays:
1344.4 kWh (1.34 MWh) produced for the month of May
Previous posts on my solar stats
Array C production stats:
TBA next month
Array C build:
System Size = 9 kWp DC
Panels = Eco-worthy Monocrystalline 190W (2 strings of 48 panels running at 275v each)
Mounting System = 12 Eco-worthy Multi-panels mount holds four panels each.
Wiring: 2x 8 AWG 19 strand PV direct bury wire pair
Inverters = Sol-Ark 15k all-in-one (240V)
Battery Backup = 3x Pytes V5 batteries
Battery Management system = Built in Pytes BMS
Battery Capacity = 15 kWh (272AH)
https://peakd.com/solar/@solominer/solos-solar-array-production-stats-may-2025
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This is my Month of June. Thanks for your post that I checked! I often forget I even have a rooftop unit, which is a good thing. It didn’t give me any trouble in the last 4 years!
Ah nice, when I am cutting back the grass around the panels I do wish I had a rooftop setup sometimes. Just going to put the ground mounts up higher next time.
Thats great yours has been running for awhile... I just crossed year one.
Is that an enphase system? Used to have one at our old house. App looks familiar. The microinverter tech they use really does maximise production on less than ideal days.
At our new place, we have a conventional string array, as we get practically zero rooftop shade.
Yes it is Enphase
Ours was completely trouble free - I spoke to the new owners of our old house the other week, and they didn't even realise how much it was saving them 🤣
You've got a lot of capacity there. Do you plan any more upgrades? Are you buying whichever panels give the best current deal?
I was happy to get over 1MWh last month from my system.
Indeed, I have some long term plans for all of this.
Be able to fully charge the 45kwh battery arrays. I need about 8000W constantly throughout the day to get that bank charged.
Have enough surplus to charge an EV at 15KW while on a cloudy day. So I would need close to 30KW just to do that. The battery array will kick in and feed power as I need it as well. So its give or take 30KW needed panel wise.
Lastly any surplus power will be consumed by ASIC miners.
So I am going to be upgrading Array-A soon to meet those goals. Probably going to be close to 36KW when I finish it.
As for buying panels honestly I just buy them from the same place I got all my previous large panels. Eco-wise does not make the big ones so I go with Sungold power.. IDK if its the best deal, seems good to me.
https://sungoldpower.com/collections/monocrystalline-solar-panel/products/560watt-bifacial-solar-panel?variant=41474747760777
I see those panels are double sided, but I would think that the more shaded side would generate a lot less. Still good if they are not much more expensive than single sided.
I've heard of people using solar panels as fencing. That could really benefit from being double sided depending on the orientation.
Yep the PERC panels can get more light in them. And since I am using ground mount setups I can get up to about 600w per panel using the 450w PERCs.
Ah yeah I have seen vertical solar panels.. interesting idea.
My stats for June, rooftop solar, with a 14.2kwh Powerwall 2:
A delta of 80ish KW in the middle of winter isn't too bad. we've had a few sunny days, but in summer time - we're doing 1.8 mWh a month.
Australia gets a lot of sunshine.
Oh nice, yeah the winter here we see lower stats too.. Right now we are just coming into peak solar season.
Noice! Just so happens I was reading a solar post from @steevc I was wondering if we have the kind of system across the pond where you can broker your surplus energy back into the grid.
Such a cool and progressive endeavour!
Across the other, other other ponds, in Australia, you get 2c / kWh for stuff fed back into the grid. The grid operators all complain bitterly about there being too much excess electricity in the grid and the infrastructure not being able to handle the higher voltage.
While at the same time, increasing prices every year by 5-14%, and seemingly making no moves to move to grid level storage of excess power, or even incentivising demand during those peak periods with cheaper rates.
Another great idea that doesn't work in reality or are they just refining the process? Hopefully they can fill in the shortcomings and evolve the incentive and storage mechanisms.
Corporate greed. No incentive to improve, nothing invested in the transmission network for years.
Electricity production and infrastructure aren't state assets in Australia, they're private companies, lobbies and regulators.
Neoliberalism at its best!
Ah yeah, selling back to the grid really depends on the region. Some places its worth it and others its not. I would get a tax break selling back to the grid, but the utility companies will only pay me pennies on the dollar.. So its not really worth it to me.
June should be one of the top production months of the year with the longest days, right?
Well this is my first year doing these stats, but august still had the most.. was around 1.8 mega watt hours last year.
Dang, that's just about double what the average house uses in a month. That's pretty awesome. I like the wooden things you made to keep them off the ground.
Indeed, the current setup is powering two homes. But soon I will have one for each.
Yeah my builder did a great job on those. Looking forward to setting more up that way.
That is awesome!
It's great that Array-C is up and running and everything is going well. I hope it produces a good amount of energy.
What a beautiful structure you've built to hold all the panels; you've made a great investment.
Thank you very much, dear friend @solominer, for sharing these statistics.
Have a great day.
Indeed, its all coming along.
No problem and hope you have a good day too.
Very cool solar power that you have me also really want to have it if there is an opportunity from one day because the goods are now very expensive in our country so I haven't been able to use it at my house
I am really thankful to have it.. when the power goes out around me and my lights stay on its a good feeling.
Yes, that's right as you say I also really want to have it one day I'm looking for money now
I really wish that the Brazilian government, whether federal or state, would invest in solar energy, as this could somehow reduce our energy bill. Soon we'll have another 15% increase... things are complicated here =/
Damn, yeah I would think with all the sun near the equator it would be a good idea.
Of course, but unfortunately around here good ideas never get off the ground.
Hmmm, this is awesome and serious. I learn from it.
!INDEED
Nice, best of luck learning about it.. You can do alot with solar power.
It's fascinating to see how much energy you're generating each month. It must feel amazing to know you're contributing to sustainability and using renewable energy
Ah glad you enjoy my solar reports. Yeah it does feel good. When its sunny I know my panels are quite productive :-)
Wow!! Excellent work @solominer with the solar panels! Here in Cuba, these kinds of systems are being implemented all over the country. I hope it brings good results because in my city, we suffer from power outages many times a day.
Check out my profile, bro—since you're a plant lover, I posted part of my cactus collection 🌵 so you can see my work in the garden. Greetings, bro, and have an awesome day, champ! 🍺😉🤝😊
Hope soon you will get more power over there, I guess the cost to start it up is something that comes up. But it would be quite beneficial to get solar.
Nice man, you got quite the garden there.
1622 kWh is a huge number. I used only 10 kWh in my garden in June for watering (0.75 kWh motor) and lights :)
Hehe yeah got a little more load on my array. But that is how I started with solar almost 10 years ago. A single panel... single battery powering a water pump for the garden.. the setup was great!
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This is great 👍
This month here all time weather is cloudy so for us it was not a good month for solar 😅
Thanks.. ah damn yeah I know what you mean..
My next build I will add more panels to make up for cloudy days.
This is light city great work