Originally Posted by
JustinL
Not noticeably. It's been really hot the last little while, which does decrease the panel efficiency, but I have seen peak power values in the last few days of 6339w and checking some random days from April I still have days at 6592w, which is still over the spec of the 6300w system. I have had both inverters of the system replaced under warranty and Jesse my solar guy with Lexand electric is amazing. Total lifetime production is currently at 27,700kwh. I don't run the payback calculations, but as electricity becomes more expensive, the break even time gets closer. Over the last few years I've also gone through Tesla ownership and now have a plug-in Cayenne e-hybrid so the system offsets the fuel costs more now than it did when I first got the solar system. The only habits I've really tried to change are when I know that I'll have the car in the garage during the daytime, I won't charge it at night. Instead I'll wait till the sun is shining.
Put together a cheap power wall with used leaf batteries. Use those to charge the cayenne.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft