I'm Going to Kanab!

It's time for the annual Greyhound Gathering in Kanab, Utah. This year we had to pick the trio that would attend with us. That's a tough choice! We decided on Parker (featured here), Kingman and Bella, or as they are affectionately known, "Gimpy, Limpy and Kingman".

We opted to let Tillie and Figgy remain in their lounge-a-beds at home, since Tillie at nearly 13 doesn't have the endurance for all day events and parades, and Figgy at 10 gets bored just standing around (she'd rather walk somewhere or be on a couch). Besides, five hounds in the van is a little cramped, and we don't want anyone to get their tails in a twist!

So off we shall go to beautiful Kanab tomorrow morning. We'll meet up with friends and hundreds of other Greyhounds. This is our third year attending, and it is always a blast.

So stand by for photos upon our return, there should be some good ones!

Solar Production - April 2009

April is behind us, May on the horizon. As we close out another month of being a solar-powered home, I thought I would share our production stats:

Last day results:

The longer days are giving us between 60-63 kWh per day. This is roughly two to three times our current usage, with all the surplus being banked with the utility as credits for upcoming months. The lifetime total is since the system was commission in February. We're into our fourth megawatt of generated power!





This next chart represents the daily production for each day in April. You can see a few days where we were at about 40 kWh for the day, these were cloudy days, yet we still made more than our usage for the day. The vary short bar was a day of clouds, rain and dark skies. Not bad overall!





Finally, here's the clip from the utility bill. For the second month now, our bill is $8.54, which is the charge to be a customer (administration, billing and meter reading fees, plus all the taxes). Our credits of kWh last month were 349, this month we are at 955, nearly a megawatt of credit. The bill for this month last year was $128. Stay tuned for the next update!