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@grammasaurus There was one time it didn't work--one of those super hard freeze stretches where nothing was thawing and that took a few days.

But those are rare.

Usually I hear the THUMP during the storm, or shortly after daybreak the next day.

I wanted to see how we did at the end of the day. We did 40 kWh today. That's the day after the blizzard. That's a good production day.

#Solar #SolarPower #Blizzard

@libramoon No, we don't have battery backup. You could, but we didn't install that. If we did it would be powering the house and/or filling the battery.

This was just to illustrate that production resumes the next day after even a heavy snow.

@gl33p Yes, we have 35 "micro inverters" that they told us at the time solved that partial shading issue. And they've worked great for 10 years.

Our biggest problem was the first inverter got a software update at age 9.5 years that took us down for a couple of months. But our brand new (warranty covered) inverter eventually arrived and these same panels/etc still work fine.

@OGjester And it makes a very satisfying THUMP THUMP THUMP when it hits the ground and you know you'll be in production shortly!

People always try to discredit #solar panels with "what about when it snows in New England????"

And it has been our experience (over 10 years) that the next morning most of the snow has slid off (except at the very bottom edge).

Our panels have been producing today, 1 day post-#Blizzard. As usual.

Here is the array on our roof today. The bottom row corresponds to the roof edge ones, and you can see which ones still have snow.

#SolarPower #SolarPanels