New solar installation from SunRun - our electric bill hasn’t changed.
I’m hoping to get some insight from actual users first before I call out to the company.
We signed up for solar panels through SunRun back in July. Everything was finally set up in October, and we went solar.
Our new ConEd bill came in, and it was still around $95. Which was about average, maybe slightly less than normal. Says we used about 380 kWh. SunRun shows that we produced 213 kWh of energy. From what I understand, that means we used a total of 593 kWh in November. Our previous November has never been that high, and our highest usage over the year was July, when we had AC running constantly, and we used 640 kWh. It doesn’t add up that we almost used the same amount of power in November, when it was averaging 45-55 degrees.
We’ve upgraded a lot of the lights to LEDs, smart lights with energy consumption in mind, to keep usage down. I don’t want to accept their mindset of “you use more power when you go solar” because I actually wanted to go for the lowest bill from ConEd as possible.
It’s getting to the point where leasing the panels, plus our ConEd bill is totaling $200+ a month, and even in July - our highest electric bill ever, was only $180.
Is there something that doesn’t add up? Or is this kind of normal with solar, and I had set my expectations too high? The salesperson even told us that the system should produce about 90-95% of our electric usage, so I should except some bill to come out on ConEd, but I didn’t expect it to be just about the same as our usual bill.
TL;DR - SunRun panels are showing 200+ kWh produced a month, ConEd is showing 300-400 kWh used per month, barely a change in usage from last year.
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