The supposed national average home electrical use is about 900 to 1000 kwhrs/month, depending on the source of the info. We live in an old farm house in Wisconsin (where we have been having high temps of below zero or the low single digits for the past week). We have less than 5kw of PVs mostly on ground mounts because the house is too shaded, charge a Nissan Leaf and Elec-Trak E15 garden tractor, and most months have a surplus of energy generated. We do heat with wood, and in the winter our furnace fan is the largest energy consumer, perhaps being surpassed by the Leaf this winter. It's our first winter with the Leaf and we didn't drive our previous converted electric vehicles in the winter.We bought our first PVs in the early 1980s and those panels are still functioning properly.Seems to me that the big problem is the energy consumption of folks with large and inefficient houses. The first step is always reducing energy use, increasing efficiency, first. Jim in Western Wisconsin
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