04/05/2020
On April 25, 2020, still reeling from all the confusions that the covid has brought, I found myself investigating our electric meter to see how much it was supplying power to our house at that particular time(it was 8:10am). I decided to record to share what I saw. Our solar panel sets(2 sets of 300w) as early as 8am, is powering our house(at this time appliances running were: ref, 2 electric fans, 1 desktop were open). The meter was spinning counterclockwise!
Moving to the other building where the Tri-Silver Builder's office also invested in solar power(3 sets), the meter was also spinning backwards. The 3 panels at this time in the morning, are still hidden from the sun(meaning it's located facing west), yet It is receiving enough power already. Though the office is closed due to the Enhance Community Quarantine (ECQ) being implemented, the company reported 35%-40% savings since the installation of the energy solution over a year ago.
It helps too that both our roofs are white(light color) for reflectance of UV rays are high resulting to less heat being transferred inside the buildings. We adopted the cool roof system.