NOTHIN BUT NET !

I am just too busy to write in my blog these days. The stories posted are all old and out dated, BUT, my clients have been sending me really great emails. With their permission I am posting these emails on the blog. Enjoy


This came in my inbox on Earthday, 4/22/10:

"Hey Kevin - Steve and I hope you and your family and Sun's Free are all doing well.
I have just gotten the lowest electric bill ever but I can't figure out how they calculate it. I'm sure you can . I'm including pdfs of the bills for this month and last month. The house meter number is 50041. The solar meter is 63515. For some strange reason they put the electricity I generate under the category of usage even though we know it is not. In March the house meter used 1192 kWh and we generated 631. They charged us for 1192 kWh which I guess is what we actually used [1823] minus the 631 we generated.
On the April bill the house meter used 879 kWh and we generated 1216. They charged us for 879 kWh which I guess is the actual usage [2095] minus the 1216 we generated.
Do I have it right? Right or wrong, I couldn't be more delighted. Please feel free to share my electric bills with any potential customers. I will share them with my neighbors."

-Dr. Posner, (42) Sanyo 215 watt modules with Enphase Micro Inverters, commissioned in December 2009.

And this on April 10th, 2010

"I remember when my dad used to get on me about leaving a door open because the heater was on and I was letting the inside air escape out into never never land. He would get upset because us kids would have every light on in the house letting dollars evaporate into atmosphere. I didn’t really understand but went along with him even into my later years because he was dad. Even though I have taken a few electronic courses and some science in college I don’t think I ever really got the concept of a kilowatt until these last couple of days. Yesterday when the sun was just coming up I went out to watch for when the solar panels would slow down and eventually reverse the wheel on the electric meter. It was just barely crawling along when all of a sudden it picked up speed. It only lasted for a few seconds so I figured someone had turned something on. When I realized Maryann was in the shower and Loretta was at work I figured it was probably a refrigerator compressor or something that turned on and off. I had to have a test. I went into the kitchen and put my coffee in the 1000 watt microwave. I set the timer for 30 seconds and started counting one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three…, as I walked back to the meter. One thousand twenty five and the meter was spinning around at a pretty good clip. One thousand 30 and boink. It immediately slowed down to a crawl and was almost at the point of reversing. I could tell exactly when the microwave timer went off. I see kilowatts everywhere now."

-Dan, (34) Sharp 235 watt modules with Enphase Micro Inverters, commissioned 4/1/10

I have a client, Sue in Oakland, that refuses to use email, but she loves to tell me about all the money she is saving. She has prepared a spread sheet for me to show potential clients in sales meetings. Too cool.

That's it for now. I gotta go.

Kevin