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nicdagg06 t1_j494i0x wrote

I heat 3300sqft of 1850’s house with 66k btu tots heat pumps and our usage has been around 2000kwh…we also have heat pump water heater and electric dryer. We have two full kitchens including our in law suite. We also have solar that did only 400kwh last month, but produces about 75% of our total annual usage. Goal is to get 100% coverage this year with a second set of panels.

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capt_jazz t1_j4b1wjb wrote

Any tips about getting residential solar? Thinking about looking into it.

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nicdagg06 t1_j4b43uk wrote

We live in Camden and used a company called Solarlogix. They were great. Got a few quotes with no major differences, just went with who we got a good vibe from. If you know your annual usage, size the system to cover - with net metering it doesn’t matter when you generate vs use. We didn’t know, and also planned on getting heat pumps. So we did round 1 knowing we’d need to do round 2 after a year or so of measuring usage. I don’t recommend batteries- they are super expensive and with net metering have limited benefit.

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