Conserve energy now if you can - grid running low

[Darkpriest667]

What company did you go with?


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They don't exist anymore. It was Solar City, Tesla bought them like 3 months after I bought my panels.

 

[Dawico]

Anyone here have solar?
I’ve been contemplating it, but it seems 90% of the companies are ripoffs and/or borderline scams.






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This should be it's own thread to keep the information together.

I am interested as well.

 

[Darkpriest667]

Friend posted this to me.

I spent 10592 total
4320 and 3177 back in incentives
7.2 kW system
estimated $1100 generated per year

 

[Kar98]

I don't even run my air con while im at work. I never run it below 78 when I'm home. If I go out. I turn it off.

Dumb. Takes as much power to cool down an overheated place than keeping it reasonably coolish all day.

 

[Kar98]

Speaking of bicycles...

I recently rode a friends mountain ebike on a local trail and promptly scared the shit out myself on some unexpected whoopti do’s. It’s torquee and lightning fast on the throttle and can get away from you so fast you’d be locked up, legs sticking straight out, wide eyed with panic in the blink of an eye. Imagine that, on a bucking bronc.

Ebikes are def the future for in town commuting.

Do they have AC and SiriusXM built in now?

 

[Southpaw]

Dumb. Takes as much power to cool down an overheated place than keeping it reasonably coolish all day.

Yep..sad to say I just learn that last week when our AC went down Sunday night. The temp the next morning was 85. Got the unit up and running Monday morning and it took what seemed like forever just to get it down to 80.
Normally I'll put it up to 80 when I go out and down to 77 when I'm home. During the normal course of a day to go from 80 to 77 only takes maybe 5 or 10 minutes. When it broke and went up to 85 it was at least 2 hours to change 5 degrees.

 

[Brains]

People on that Griddy nonsense are screaming right now. They're getting billed $300+ in mere days to cover the spike in wholesale power prices.

 

[Darkpriest667]

Dumb. Takes as much power to cool down an overheated place than keeping it reasonably coolish all day.

Well im just a dumb guy that doesn't show up until after dark when I get home. Label me stupid =) Make sure to tell me next time you show up to a meet.

 

[Brains]

 

[FireInTheWire]

Well im just a dumb guy that doesn't show up until after dark when I get home. Label me stupid =) Make sure to tell me next time you show up to a meet.

A lot of truth to your signature

 

[deemus]

Been turning my thermostat up to 75 when I leave since I saw this thread.

 

[Brains]

I have a 72-76 degree schedule set on the thermostats, and they'll raise to a max of 80 if we're not home. Still use a ton of power though, this is from yesterday:

Edit: You can visualize my A/C cycle times pretty well on that chart too. Kinda neat.

 

[FireInTheWire]

I'll be sure to lock down my capacitors and bump up my regulators for all you GD Eskimos

 

[popper]

You have to understand the spike charge, this time it lasted 15 min. Distributor has to buy or brown out when capacity is exceeded. Only for the time it exceeded! QThey are only supposed to charge US the spike rate during the spike, right?

 

[Brains]

ERCOT locational margin pricing map

 

[SQLGeek]

People on that Griddy nonsense are screaming right now. They're getting billed $300+ in mere days to cover the spike in wholesale power prices.

Yep. It's a blood bath right now.

I unassed that last Saturday. 10 days in and I was already at over $100.

 

[oldag]

Here we go again. ERCOT has issued another emergency notice.

Demand is lower than the other day, but capacity is down because wind generation is pitifully low.

 

[baboon]

I'll only use what I pay for so aint that energy conservation?

 

[IXLR8]

It’s all those people charging their electric cars that are causing the problem....

 

[HKShooter65]

Boeing & Lockheed is testing a fusion reactor that can theoretically power 80,000 homes. It’s the size of two refrigerators.

You have a link or reference?

I'm thinking we, in 2019, are no closer to fusion than was Isaac Newton!

Sad but true?