Vacationing at North Padre Island Seashore

In 2025, our home’s solar panels generated most of the electricity we used—but not all of it. By tracking daily production and consumption throughout the year, this post examines how solar actually performed, where it fell short, and what seasonal patterns reveal about living with solar day to day.

I spent a week in Phoenix attending the American Astronomical Society’s 247th Meeting. This was my first research-specific conference