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System Info:

• 6,150 W
• General Contractor: groSolar, White River Junction VT
• Grid-tie with net metering
• 3 ground mount poles, each with 10 panels
• Solar Panels: Evergreen Solar ES-A-205
• Power per panel: 205 W -0/+5 W
• Inverter: Motech Instruments 5300 (aka: Solectria 5300) (Removed 04/15/2010)
• Inverter: Sunny Boy 3000 (2) (Upgraded 04/15/2010)
• Power Monitoring: TED5000 Died May 2022. Replaced with IoTaWatt. Installed 05/26/22 I'm now logging the individual red and black power feeds to the circuit box. This let's me see if usage is balanced or not.
• Sunny Beam Bluetooth inverter monitor
• fit-PC2i fitPC MintBox Mini server to monitor and log statistics
• Turn on date: 09/22/2009 @ 4920 W
• Panel Upgrade date: 12/01/2009 @ 6150 W
• Inverter Upgrade date: 04/15/2010 @ 6150 W
• SREC recording start date: 03/06/2014. We did not learn about SRECs until early 2014. PSNH was totally silent about SRECs (they get paid for unrecorded SRECs). We lost out on the value of 33 SRECs which probably had a value of around $55 each.
• Poles are 12' with 6' below ground
• Panels start approximately 3' above ground with highest point being 12' above ground
• Each panel measures 37.5" x 65" (3' 1.5" x 5' 5")
• The panels on each pole measure in total 15' 7.5" x 10' 10"
• Future expansion for 6 more panels bringing total power output to 6150W
  Installed 12/01/09
• The average US household uses 901kWh/month (~30kWh/day). (EIA.gov)
• Our average daily usage for 2011: 29kWh (10,732kWh/yr)
• Our average daily usage for 2014: 22kWh (8,170kWh/yr)
• Our average daily usage for 2016: 20kWh (7,303kWh/yr)
• NH property tax excemption: RSA 72:61-72 (Adoption by Town)
• NH Net Metering (PUC 900)
  Summary: PSNH - Credit at retail rate for generated electricity, no limit to credit
  Update 04/14/10: HB1343 was passed by the legislature and now allows for energy credit to be converted to cash.
• Database of state incentives for renewables and efficiency
• Clean Energy NH
• Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA)
• SRECTrade - Solar Renewable Energy Certificate (SREC) markets
• Knollwood Energy - REC aggregator/broker ; They get a percentage of the SREC price.
• Paul Button/Energy Audits Unlimited - REC auditor
• NEPool Generation Information System (GIS) - REC tracking
• Backup Power: Cummins/Onan 12GHAB-3226B/RST 200-176 Died January 2020. Replaced with Kohler 14RESA 14 Kw