[Omnivore-Dan]

We have a geothermal heating and cooling system. It works beautifully and economically. We also have a large Vermont Casting wood stove and burn a couple cords of firewood each fall, winter and early spring. So our heating and cooling costs are pretty low. What I would like to do is a bank of solar panels which would charge batteries capable of powering the house for a few days since we have a lot of power failures here in north western N.J. All of our ash trees are dead (ash borers) and falling across power lines when a typical thunderstorm hits, and power is out, could be for a few hours or days. Gas powered generators are ok for a while, but get old soon. A whole house generator (Generac) is costly for the time you need it. We have a couple acres so we don’t have to have roof mounted solar. I haven’t researched all of the costs yet, but I’ll get there eventually.

[Tell It Right]

Have you gone to https://tsi.tyconsystems.com/html/nrel_lookup.htm or a similar tool to see how many peak solar hours you get per day, and how that changes each month? That tool was spot on for my area of Alabama. I was able to use those peak solar hour numbers for calculating how much solar kW I'd need to meet my goals.

[Tell It Right]

Kudos on the geothermal heating and cooling. If I may ask, how much did it cost?