Energy Stack / Solar
Layer 01 · Generation
Panels are mostly a commodity. What matters is everything around them: inverter choice, roof geometry, the tariff you are on, and the surprisingly large gap between modelled and measured output.
In this section
Panels
A short tour of the panel-spec acronyms and which of them you should actually weight.
Inverters
Once you draw the roof out, the right answer is usually obvious. This guide draws it for you.
Install
Three pages on the dullest part of your install, because it is the part most likely to catch fire.
Output
A reader sent us their first year of generation data. We graphed it against the estimate.
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