{"id":1589,"date":"2022-04-08T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2022-05-04T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T23:21:47","slug":"solar-panels-on-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2022\/04\/08\/solar-panels-on-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panels on the Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 31st, I saw the following picture from my garage security camera:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/IMG_4700-1024x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/IMG_4700-1024x500.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/IMG_4700-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/IMG_4700-768x375.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/IMG_4700.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>The Panels Have Arrived!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It took several days to install the 56 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarelectricsupply.com\/canadian-solar-cs1h-335ms-hidm-solar-panel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">335W panels from Canadian Solar<\/a>. We just finished the installation yesterday and we are now awaiting for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/esasafe.com\" target=\"_blank\">ESA<\/a> inspection and commissioning the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather was borderline cooperative, being wet and fairly high wind situations (gusting near 50 to 100 km\/h at times). However the installers from <a href=\"https:\/\/newdawn-es.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Dawn Energy Solutions<\/a> soldiered on and completed the installation yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of me blabbing about how the install went, here is a short video on the near daily progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-08-at-11.39.49-AM.png\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/Solar-Installation-Web-Version.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Near Daily Progress of Installation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The system is now ready to generate power as soon as ESA inspection is completed and our power meter is changed for net metering. Hopefully this will happen in the next week or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 31st, I saw the following picture from my garage security camera: It took several days to install the 56 335W panels from Canadian Solar. We just finished the installation yesterday and we are now awaiting for ESA inspection and commissioning the system. The weather was borderline cooperative, being wet and fairly high wind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2022\/04\/08\/solar-panels-on-the-roof\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solar Panels on the Roof&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,111],"tags":[15,28],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar","category-tech","tag-solar-system","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-pD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}