Summer 2022 has officially arrived in the northern hemisphere! The June solstice was the kick-off and, since that's the longest day of the year, I like to mark the occasion by sharing our solar production.
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| Solar Generation On June 21st, 2022 |
Here in the NW corner of Oregon, the sun rose at 5:23 AM and didn't set until 9:04 PM. That's 15 hours and 41 minutes of daylight. As the graph above shows, our PV system was cranking out power from 6 AM until 8 PM. We generated a total of 76.5 kWh of energy.
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| Destinations of our Solar Production |
As you can see, about one-third of the energy was used to run our home. The bulk of the remaining two-thirds was sent to the grid, running our meter backwards for most of the day.
How Much?
On this one day, we generated 76.5 kWh of energy; just for fun, let's look at this amount of energy in several ways.
76.5 kWh of energy is equivalent to:
- 2.5 days of use in a typical US household
- 203 Million foot-pounds
- 261 BTUs
- 65822 food calories (about 132 meals)
- 306 miles in a 2022 Tesla Model 3 standard range
Obviously, this energy cannot be converted directly into food calories or meals. I'm just trying to put some perspective on the number.
The 306 miles in a Tesla is interesting and the energy can be directly used in an EV. Looking at fuel averages, a 306-mile trip would typically use about 15.3 gallons of gasoline. At current gas prices, that's about $76 dollars. Not a bad day's work. :)
