I wondered which season was the best to design your solar panel system around.
This is my 8th video interview with Tony Boniface President of Independent Power Systems filmed in Colorado.
SolarDave: Do you design your solar system for any one season?
Tony Boniface: For on grid – no. Because of the fact of net metering, it is not that important when you produce the power to when you use it.
Off grid is a different story, because now you are relying on that power to be produce when you need it, generally winter is the worse case scenario generally if you are doing an off grid solar system if you design the system so it carries an average load that means the panels will be producing over in the summer and under producing in the winter.
If you design the system so it is producing most of the power in the winter it will be termendously over producing in the summer. So it is a deminishing return there. With an off gird system you are going to need a generator any way. So it is better to design the system some where in between fall and spring seasons and incur a little over production in the summer and a little deficite in the winter and let the generator make that up unless cost is not an issue and you just size for winter.
