Check your local utility to see if nem is available to you.
Sunrun how do i know if my solar panels work.
What matters is how much sun your home gets year round.
Then when your home solar system isn t producing as much electricity as you need you pull energy from the grid and use these credits to offset the cost of that energy.
If you sign a solar lease you pay a flat monthly rent to sunrun in exchange for electricity.
Since solar energy only affects the kilowatt hour part of your bill some elements will stay the same like your monthly service charge to keep duke energy s grid healthy as well as your transmission and distribution costs.
But don t get stuck on this detail.
A solar panel uses an electric field which is similar to the magnetic field you might have seen attracting metallic objects to your fridge to make all the freed electrons travel to one edge of the solar panel.
This difference is called net energy metering or nem and duke energy uses it to calculate your solar bill.
Share it with your neighbors.
So if the grid shuts down so will your solar panels.
Going forward you pay sunrun to provide the bulk of your.
Well sunrun will give you an implied rate per kilowatt hour kwh and multiply that by how much power their proposed solar system will produce for the year.
The inverter runs to a smart meter that records the amount of energy you use and also the excess solar energy that is sent back to the utility.
This means that a photon can use its energy to knock an electron out of place letting it roam freely around inside the solar panel.
The other reason is that your solar panel system is connected to the grid via a solar inverter or grid tied solar.
A company like sunrun puts solar panels on your roof connects them to your home and claims a tax benefit for owning the system.
By generating and storing energy in our homes we can share power across neighborhoods and our entire energy system.
At sunrun we know there is a better way.
Now is the time to make your own energy.
If you sign a ppa you commit to paying a fixed rate per kilowatt hour kwh for the electricity that your solar panels generate.
In order to find this number sunrun will look at your history of electricity usage.
When it s overcast your solar panels will likely operate at 10 to 25 of their rated capacity.
While solar panels work on cloudy and rainy days their output won t match that on clear sunny days.
We have been building this future for over a decade and every year it grows brighter.
