Friday, June 24, 2022

Powering My Own Home (2)

 In another installment here, also called Powering My Own Home, I introduced my new solar roof and some examples of how its cutting electric use. For that Blog please look under October 2020.

Here's a usage chart from TPU, our supplier, for the period from April 2021 to May, 2022. Each bar represents 2 months. As you can see, we use electricity 


Orange Electricity
Blue Drinking Water
Stripes Waste Water
Solid Grey Solid Waste
Dots Storm Water
Electricity charge for the first four periods not showing any orange was -$50, -$128, -$125, and -$17 (after meter change) and then -$28 and -$43 this year. In comparison, our total electricity bill for the five bars that indicate electricity use was $128 !

Found Food

I have published quite a few recipes here on my blog over the last few years, and I hope that all my readers have tried at least some of the...