The Lincoln Electric company will buy my excess power up to the amount I use in a month. That is, I can only reduce my electric bill to zero. I won’t make a profit.
So, in summer, I’ll produce, let’s say 70% of the electricity that I need, but in winter, I’ll produce 120%. That 20% extra in the winter months will be a “donation” to the Lincoln Electric Company. (Shame!)
My winter heat is provided by natural gas, so I don’t use much electricity during those months. I’m thinking of getting electric heaters to supplement or augment the natural gas…maybe/maybe not.
However, the purpose of this thread is that I’m looking for other ideas on where to use the extra electricity in the winter months. The only other idea that comes to mind is mining bitcoin or something similar, but I don’t really want to invest so much capital into something like that, don’t have the know-how for something like that, and also want something that’s easy to turn on/off a few months at a time.
Look into getting storage batteries, but don’t tell LE about them. Yeah, they’ll probably figure it out, and you might max out on them as well (good for outages, though). Some capital investment required.
can you see if you neighbor would take it? Like push it into his/her place to reduce their bill, they can pay you back in beer or whatever. that’s assuming you like your neighbor.
