We had our SunPower system installed in November 2022. Earlier this year, I noticed that the SunStrong app was reporting significantly less solar generated than it had over the past three years.
I looked up our electricity bill from our power company for the same time period -
Pepco (our power company): Shows 138 kWh exported.
SunStrong: Shows 124.8 kWh of electricity imported.
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What could explain this discrepancy? According to the app, the panels. are producing around 40% less power than they did at the same time last year. The maximum generated output the app shows is around 4.8 kWh, whereas it used to regularly top 10 kWh.
We had a tech come out and replace some breakers, do a reset and make sure the firmware was updated, but nothing changed. FWIW, I tried the SunFlower app it's giving the same numbers.
We're in Washington, DC and get the great SREC rate, so we're losing quite a bit of money and our solar installer seems to be out of ideas.
I looked up our electricity bill from our power company for the same time period -
Pepco (our power company): Shows 138 kWh exported.
SunStrong: Shows 124.8 kWh of electricity imported.
(screenshots attached)
What could explain this discrepancy? According to the app, the panels. are producing around 40% less power than they did at the same time last year. The maximum generated output the app shows is around 4.8 kWh, whereas it used to regularly top 10 kWh.
We had a tech come out and replace some breakers, do a reset and make sure the firmware was updated, but nothing changed. FWIW, I tried the SunFlower app it's giving the same numbers.
We're in Washington, DC and get the great SREC rate, so we're losing quite a bit of money and our solar installer seems to be out of ideas.
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