electric vehicle) charger station was installed. On April 28th, an all electric Chevrolet Bolt was purchased.
Today after 129 days since the installation of the solar panels, data collected shows that the ave daily energy use for the house is 32.87 kWh. So far, the ave daily Solar energy production is 32.07 kWh with a result of 97.57% of the daily household electrical use being supplied from Power Trip installed solar panels (32.07kWh/32.87kWh). The total household use of electricity includes the kWh used to charge the Bolt. The Bolt has been driven over 2000 miles since its purchase and it has been charged at our new home only.
Also, our PUD electric bills for March and April were only for the monthly $14.50 base fee that is charged to each electric bill. No charges were made for electricity since no electricity was delivered. In addition, the May PUD electric bill states that 396 kWh have been added to our banked usage balance.
We look forward to the days ahead when the ‘2017 spring rain season’ is replaced with some long days of sunshine and ‘banking’ energy for later winter days. Also with new batteries being developed, our future may include an ‘on site’ energy storage system.
Can we recommend Power Trip Energy for solar planning and installation? YOU BET!
I would like to know what the total capital investment amounted to in $. How many years will it take to pay for the investment. It also would be interesting to know if the home site has full sun all day or what part of the day they have sunshine?
Guide to Living in Montreal With a metropolitan area population of just over 4 million, Montreal is Canada’s second biggest city, after Toronto.Montreal has been overtaken by Toronto as Canada’s commercial capital, but it is still an important hub for commerce, arts, culture and architecture.Police foot patrols are frequent, and these areas tend to have more small boutique style food markets and fewer large grocery stores.
“Clean, welcoming and refreshingly multicultural, Montreal is happy enough year-round,” says the guide. Just For Laughs takes over the city in summer, packing venues with the best in both Anglo and Francophone comedy.”Montreal is the business centre of Quebec and, taking its metropolitan area into account, is Canada’s second largest city.Montreal’s climate varies wildly from season to season.
Hell Let Loose tried the formula of putting extremely impactful assets all in the hands of one player, and I found it abysmal to play around. While it’s not impossible to do, I don’t think it’s the foundation to pursue for Squad. On a smaller scale, I’ve enjoyed games like that (Natural Selection comes to mind. On a large scale with so many variables to be considered, I think spreading more of this responsibility out allows for a better player experience and more freedom in play style. 

Isn’t this also just kinda what the SATCOM mod is doing? While that mods fun, it’s a very different game and doesn’t capture what makes Squad so enjoyable, and leans harder into the RTS aspect for commanders and more arcade-like gameplay for everyone else. Again, not a bad a idea but not really what makes Squad a good game imoThe world has changed quite a bit since I wrote these last blog posts, COVID has essentially brought all in-person activities to an abrupt halt. I don’t know exactly what will happen when we return to school virtually in the fall, but I know that the 2020 marching season is not going to look like what I have described in the blogs above. However, the one thing that I am absolutely positive COVID did not change is our community and the bonds that our members share.
COVID may change how the marching band will be run, but there are still people in the program who are incredibly passionate and determined to make this year as successful and fun for incoming members as possible, despite the circumstances. While we can’t march, the community is still there, and, frankly, I value those friendships much more than the physical show.
— JenniferThe only exceptions were in the early 1950s.
The report pointed to the link between the index and the overall economy in the region: Historically, when the PMI drops below a certain level, as it did in December, and stays there for three months, it coincides with a recession in the region’s overall economy [“The Sky is Falling” on California Manufacturing, Worst since February 2009, Might Kick Regional Economy into Recession].
Then retail sales for December dropped. Turns out, holiday sales brought no respite to the beleaguered brick-and-mortar retailers [read… Wal-Mart Rubs Salt on Deepening Retail Wounds].
And the final shoe to drop today, in a gratuitous sort of way, was the Federal Reserve’s index for industrial production. It fell 0.4% in December, after having already fallen 0.9% in November and 0.2% in September, while August had been flat. Year-over-year, December was down 1.8%.
A year-over-year drop of this magnitude (-1% or more) has been linked to a recession every time it occurred over the past six decades. You have to dig into the early 1950s before you find the last two occurrences where this kind of drop in industrial production was not associated with a recession.
I circled those two exceptions in this chart by the Economics and Strategy team at NBF. I also circled December’s drop. The recessions are the gray columns. This is starting to look ugly:
Worse: contagion is spreading from beaten-down oil & gas and metals & mining to consumer goods, where production dropped 0.8% for the month, the fourth month in a row of declines, though they still eked out a gain of 0.3% year-over-year. And it’s hitting production of Business Equipment, down 0.8% year-over-year.
Some sectors are still strong: the sub-index for Construction output was up 1.6% year-over-year, given the apartment building boom in major cities; and the stalwart of growth in America, defense and space equipment, rose 0.6%.
But the utilities index fell 2.0% for the month and 6.9% for the year. This drop “contributed substantially to declines in the indexes for consumer goods, business supplies, and materials,” the Federal Reserve pointed out. So that explains part of the problem in consumer goods. But output of consumer durables fell 0.3% and output of “consumer non-energy nondurables” also fell 0.3%. It finally all circles back to the consumer.
Everyone was quick to blame the weather, which this time had been too warm rather than too cold. When it gets warm in the winter, utilities produce less. We get that. But production of consumer durables and consumer non-energy nondurables?
Weakening exports also get blamed. Exports excluding petroleum products are falling off the chart. This is a problem of weak global demand combined with the swooning currencies of some trade partners.
Yet it is still possible that the US economy won’t skid into a recession. The service sector – which is about five times as big as oil & gas, other mining, and manufacturing combined – is still growing. It includes healthcare, which is booming.
Auto sales (and auto manufacturing) have been setting records. Housing hasn’t visibly rolled over yet. While job-cut announcements are now disconcertingly gracing our headlines on a daily basis, weekly unemployment claims have only been edging up recently from very low levels. We expect them to jump when things get dicey. But they haven’t jumped yet.
That said, numerous jobs that were cut in the oil & gas sector and elsewhere were contractor jobs. Other contractors had their hours reduced. And those folks won’t show up in the weekly unemployment claims because they don’t qualify for unemployment compensation.
One thing we know: If ugly data like this keeps piling up over the next few months, or if auto sales, services, or housing take a hit, something big is going to give. Then there’s the growing possibility of a financial crisis or a debt crisis in the Emerging Markets, which would rattle our nerves even more. And the current “market turbulence,” as the global swoon in stocks is called, might just be the market’s reflection of those possibilities.
Consumers are curtailing their purchases and shifting to online stores. So, brick-and-mortar retailers are being taken out the back and shot. Read… Wal-Mart Rubs Salt on Deepening Retail Wounds
nice work, Wolf. Cool roundtrip view of economic numbers. Its kind of exciting and scary to be sitting on the edge of a precipice like this. They say crises are the only real opportunities for change that human beings have, because of our tendency to resist change…
Gee I wonder if Janet and her gang look at mfg/industrial output instead of focused on BLS manipulated unemployment data boosted by lower paying service jobs not to mention not include so many folks “stop” looking for work (guess they don’t exist with some say 9 million folks in that boat).
Anyway the graph not only indicate the Great Recession II may be around the corner and that it has more to fall…
Alas – the Fed is out of the bullets with interest rate at 0.25% (vs. 5.25 back in late 2008) and with each round of QE loosing oomph with last round III that lasted too long (to make Benny’s