It's been in the low 80's here in my desert-y part of Southern California, which is deliciously cool for this time of year (went down to 56 last night!) Now THAT'S good sleeping weather. It really energized me to do some outdoor yardwork that I wouldn't dream of doing this time of year, usually.
Typically it's about 98-104 this time of year here, and I would say 90 is an optimal daytime high, it's so dry. So now I hear the rest of the nation is sweltering in a heat wave...sorry guys, I guess we sent it your way!
I don't even care I'm being held hostage to the Solar guy, who is supposed to come out and fix their metering system, which never worked. A few months ago, we installed a complete PV (photovoltaic, to you newbies) system as well as a pool heating system. My husband works from home, and we use a lot of electronics, so our bill was about $350 a month previously.
Well, now how does $30 a month sound? It even was -$17 on the month we were away for 2 weeks. That's right, the utility company has to buy back the extra power generated. Fabulous! At this rate, payback is in 6 years. We'd rather be paying the $ for the system than the utility company! And the pool is a steady 85 degrees! Yay!
The little high-tec monitor is supposed to show you how many KW's are being produced every hour,etc. But it runs off of Wi-Fi, and the tech claims our signal is too low.Funny, we run 4 computers off of it all over the house, but okay. So he's going to hard-wire it in. That way we don't even have to go outside to see the spoils of our investment.
So we figure that even if we move, more buyers will qualify to buy our house since the utilities are nearly nil. Not that anything is selling right now! Oh, well, no plans to move anyway....
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