Latest Update

Hi Folks,

Here's my latest update. In December my SolarCity system generated 373.60kWh. SCE finally got around to converting me to Net-Metering, so I'm good to go there. Still trying to decide which TOU I want to go with. January numbers are in too, I generated 447.63kWh, can't wait to see what my summer production will be.  I've noticed that as time moves on our production is going up, I've set some daily records (over 19kWh/day) over the past few days, so exciting!

I found that SolarCity has a new SolarGuard 2.0 System which shows both production and consumption over a specific time period.  This would be so helpful to try to understand my production/use prior to making that decision.  Read the press release here.

I've reached out to the SolarCity folks to see how/when that system might be available for existing customers.

All for now!

New news...

It's been a while since I was able to last post.  I signed the documents and shortly thereafter received a welcome email explaining the next few things that are going to happen.  First on the list was a site inspection.  

A couple days later I had a call from someone in the customer service group at SolarCity.  They wanted to schedule a time which they could come out to do the inspection.   They're going to be here on Wednesday at 9am.  They said that it should take around 3 hours. They're going to climb up on the roof and take detailed measurements, inspect the attic, and more.  I can't wait to see what's going to happen.

The nice folks in customer service said that once that was completed, that detailed information is sent to the engineering group who put together the engineering diagrams.  They said that it can take up to 3 weeks for that to happen.

I'll update you more once the site inspection is done.  Until then, take care.

-paul

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I'm a Southern California resident who is pondering going the solar route. Since I'm an early adopter and a technology geek at heart, I've done lots of research. In my journey to collect as much information as possible about Solar, I've learned that there are some serious gaps in the information which is easily available. I figured I'd share my experiences with you. Hope you can get some good information from this, and enjoy my ramblings.