It’s official. The power company swapped in our new net meter yesterday. I was at the house working on the siding so we got to watch them make the swap. The new meter was set zero, but not for long. It was a nice sunny day so we powered up the inverter to make sure the new meter was working correctly. After a few minutes the meter flipped back to 99999. By the end of our first day we had generated 12.5 kWh and fed 5 kWh back into the grid. Not bad considering a storm rolled in and pelted us with rain and hail shortly after we switched on the system.

This was a nice milestone for us, but no time to celebrate. It’s time to get the siding installed.