Quote from: crazydane on Today at 02:17:33 PM

It takes a pretty serious investment to produce meaningful power from solar. I have a 50 kWh farm in Virginia and I try to match my mining rig consumption with what I produce. I have Net Metering with the power company, so I don't need to worry about messing with batteries or anything like that.

Here's my production vs. consumption for 2020:

Its a bit misleading since I move my rigs to the house in the winter months to supply all the heating I need. So the above graph only captures the consumption of the mining rigs when they are located in my shop building.

2021 so far:

I sold all my 1080Ti, 1070 and 1070Ti rigs in November and December of 2020 and have been slowly building out 3000 series rigs this year as I've been able to get GPUs. That is why you see a gradual climb in consumption since April (which is typically when I move the rigs from the house to the shop).

Looking at last month specifically:

So on nice sunny days, I generate about 300 kWh/day, and my rigs consume about 175 kWh/day. I do run a few rigs at the house all year, so the actual daily consumption is more like 200 kWh, or about 8,000 watts at the wall as seen here:

Areal of solar farm:

As mentioned above, I have Net Metering with the POCO. So any excess energy I produce, goes into a "bank" of kWh on my account to be consumed during the winter months.

They do make me pay a basic meter charge of $30.75 plus $3 in County taxes, but I can live with that. Grin

Btw, the meter is also supplying power to my main house, so it basically gets a "free ride" and "free" heat in the winter.

God damn, what kind of solar setup is this? You said you don't need batteries for backup? How is that even possible? What happens once the sun goes down in the evening and night? Wowu