{"id":273,"date":"2024-09-12T21:32:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:21:04","slug":"solar-results-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/solar-results-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Results for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like my <a href=\"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/solar-results-to-dec-22\/\">2022 results post <\/a>I wanted to provide an update on how our solar did in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall we had a net contribution of $3107 and the results were a little better than 2022. We had higher production of 12,900 kwh in 2023; of which we sold 9100 kwh back to the grid. We used a little less in the house than last year, but bought a Tesla late in the year so that will change in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For all our financial calculations we use the real solar club rate for what we produce in the summer, but only price our internally used power at the &#8220;grid&#8221; rate which we use 8.3 cents per kwh. Like in 2022 we use 6 cents for our variable Distribution and Transmission cost, so internally consumed kwh are always 14.3 cents. This is important as our results are not inflated using a higher export solar club rate, although that is our opportunity cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our payback period is about an additional 6 years, which is the most common financial metric I get asked. This is probably optimistic but would be great if true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like my 2022 results post I wanted to provide an update on how our solar did in 2023. Overall we had a net contribution of $3107 and the results were a little better than 2022. We had higher production of 12,900 kwh in 2023; of which we sold 9100 kwh back to the grid. We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/solar-results-for-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solar Results for 2023&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[36,38,59],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-yyc-2","tag-solar","tag-solar-electric","tag-solar-payback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardhendricks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}