I noticed some amazing detail that the installers did that I hadn’t noticed yesterday, but not only did they paint the conduit that goes up the side of my house, they also painted the conduit that is on my tile roof to make it blend in! The details that these guys did was nothing short of astounding!

I just received the blueprints for my solar power system which means, the design of my PV system is complete! In the end, the roof allows for 17 panels on my southern roof over my garage which are the bread and butter of the system, especially during the winter months when the sun is lower and in the southern sky, combined with 37 panels on my eastern roof which provide for true sun-up to sun-down solar generation!

The 54 Evergreen 205 watt panels will generate 11,070 watts of power at peak generation or basically exceeding my power consumption during daylight hours to where I will not be purchasing any power from APS if the sun is shining. Thanks to the design, I will be pushing excess power onto the grid where APS will be giving me a credit for every kilowatt that I supply to them that they can in return sell back to other users under their green energy program, so in the end everyone wins!

Now we move to the permitting phase, followed by the install phase early next year, if the timeline holds, this system will be up and running by March 2010 and I’ll be living off the grid, goodbye 500 dollar electric bills!

Till the next update and as always, follow the progress on the SOLAR page link above.