My electric bill has doubled, I can’t wait to be able to turn the air off this year OMG on top of everything else it has been insane!! I don’t need heat in the winter I am in the desert and it remains warn enough to not need heat THANK GOD!!
I remember people laughing at those dumb Europeans, crying about their heating bills the last couple of weeks. Not me, I knew the other shoe would soon drop on us.
Since the end of August I’ve pulled only 100 watts from the grid. I do that as my “zero base” as a way to make sure my solar inverters don’t err and put power onto the grid. 100 watts X 24 hours = 2.4 kWh daily. That is all Ive pulled from the grid since the solar upgrade I did in August. That’s even with charging my EV at home, plus running my A/C a bit to cool my 2,300 sq ft home in the still warm days in Alabama.
Maybe you should do the same, especially living in the desert. Your dry air will give you a better throughout (the humidity in my air does a slight filtering of the sunlight). Solar is horrible to implement at the utility level. But it works fine at the home level if you live in the southern half of the U.S. and have some space on your land or roof facing the equator with no shade.
I told my wife I didn’t want to just fuss about Brandon raising our energy costs. I told her that our retirement planning is worth preserving and taking our energy needs into our own hands and doing what we can to provide as much of our energy as we can.