Yep. No AC for you!!!
“Yep. No AC for you!!!”
You couldn’t be more wrong. There needs to be made a difference between grid scale solar and individual home installed systems. Especially in sunny areas like Texas,California,Arizona and Nevada.
My location in Texas gets 220+ days of full sun per year. I have 30x 550 watt panels that 4 years ago cost 19 cents per watt and have a 25 year capacity warranty they have in 4+ years lost 2% capacity. The inverters are dual 8000 watt grid synced with stand alone mode that at the time were 20 cents per watt. Yesterday those panels made 193 kilowatt hours of energy.
I have dual 4 ton ground sourced heatpumps one for upstairs one for down. They use 4200 watts each when running with blowers on high. I keep the down stairs at 68 and the up at 70 day time and also 68 at night. My whole house used 81 kWh of energy yesterday which meant my panels sold to the grid 110+ kWh of energy yesterday while keeping my 4500+ sqft property at 70 or under. I have 7 fridges and freezers connected as well. Three deep freezers full to the brim with meats and frozen foods. A large French door in the kitchen, a commercial sized dual door beverage cooler in the mancave and a full sized top freezers fridges upstairs in the second living room and half kitchen area. All run of the panels. At no point even in January have these panels not covered 100% of this structures energy use it was sized to be 100% off grid but since we have a grid tie I sell the access to ERCOT and turn a profit rather than bank the power for night use. Off grid solar is a winning deal people do it every day. These systems are in the 18,000 dollar range that’s small potatoes for 750,000 plus home prices in this area. A tiny portion of a mortgage payment and when the grid went down in February we had power all day long with heat pump heating. I only ran the genrac a couple of hours over night to keep the pool pumps from freezing, and the 7 fridges at temp. The genrac came with the house so it was zero cost. It pairs perfectly with the panels as the bulk of off grid use is during the day with a very small fraction at night should the grid no down again. It’s a 10000 watt gen and is more than capable of standing alone but why pay for fuel when the sun is shining and free to capture.