Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

The whole process did take a bit longer than we thought, but so far we think it will be worth it.

We have our old meter that measures our electrical use, plus a new one that measures solar production. With the way the weather has been lately, our production exceeds use from about mid-morning until early afternoon, then the a/c goes on and we use more. It's is really cool to see my old meter with a little negative sign on it!

Our next utility bill will be about half the month with the panels, so it will be lower than last month, but we won't see the full results until the bill we get in October.

I'm zipping off to work now, but got a brief glance at an article in our local paper this am about one of the towns nearby offering more incentives for people to do "green upgrades" including solar to their homes. It looks like low financing...and maybe some other stuff. I'll post the link when I get back. It would be great to get the the point where more lower income people could do this.