Personal Best

Well, here it is near the end of April in the upper left corner. April has been a wonderful month, sun-wise. Today, I believe that we hit our best, single day energy production number to date: 26.64 kW-hr. This is from a 4 kW array, so of course that translates to a rough equivalent of 6 hours and 40 minutes of peak output. Due to angle and high clouds, I don't think we actually hit peak output at all, so really we must attribute this to the long days this time of year at this latitude. Output is certainly helped by the cool temperatures (high 50's, degrees Obsolete) and gentle breezes that help keep the internal resistance of the panels from rising.

I'm almost looking forward to receiving April's energy bill just to see how much better than March it will surely be.