Too bad Generac went woke and will celebrate “gay pride” next month. I was considering a Generac backup system but no longer.
We installed a whole house Generac in 2011, and it was a fine company to do business with. For this house, we installed a Generac system in 2023, and used the same local company as before. They were/are terrible.
They’ve put more energy into woke than customer service, apparently.
GENERAC work great I have a whole house dual fuel set up plus a portable 15,000 watt tie fuel generator that can plug into a 50 amp NEMA house tie in for 30,000 watts total if both are running.
Retail natural gas prices are set specifically high enough so you cannot run a gas fueled generator for less per kWh than the REPs will sell it via the T&D provider. This is by design.
Only solar panels can under cut the grid and do it on the regular. Texas Republicans removed the net meeting laws years ago so REP’s are not required to buy back or allow your meter to run backwards. However they also have no power to stop you from being grid tied and having grid sync inverters that push enough amps at the right phase angle to stop your meter dead in its tracks making every watt comes from the panels and not the grid if you draw more amps than the inverters can push the phase angle shifts automatically and instantly and seamlessly amps flow in from the grid. You effectively are using the grid as a giant battery and only paying for the KVA you actually use which would be at night and some cloudy days. Panels still create nearly 50% of their rated outputs under scattered or partly cloudy sky’s.
Vertical bifacial panels make nearly 60% even under clouds from reflected light on both sides of the panels this effect gets better the more North or South you live as they also catch maximum rays when the sun is rising or setting and better in winter when the sun is lower in the horizon. Clouds don’t matter much to vertical solar fences and snow cannot cover them it’s win win.
It’s called solar fencing and it takes the place of 8 foot privacy fencing and it’s cheaper per day foot than fence panels now too. Panels can be had in bulk for 14 cents per watt of capacity by the pallet load. Panels are also cheaper than steel roofing per square foot yeah we are living in that world now.
Here are vertical solar fences at latitudes of Austin and Minneapolis at different compass pointing directions vs panels faced in the same directions at their latitude appropriate tilt angle. This data is actual collected data with clouds,snow and winter included. It’s not gut feelings or speculation or opinions.
https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1844102046871666963