A year of solar data

Our solar array has been up and running for a year now.  Since we have micro-inverters from Enphase, I'm able to log data every 5 minutes on how much solar power we're producing (you can browse a summary view of this data at Enphase's public page for our system).  I've saved this data over the entire year (over 70,000 data points).  Here are a few visualizations of the data.  First, a simple contour map of the raw data - blue is 0-2000 watts, red is 2000-4000 watts, and green is more than 4000 watts of instantaneous power being produced by the array:

This is the same data, but smoothed with a 5x5 box filter and viewed in perspective - it lets you see the longer weather events we've had (multi-day winter storms, extended summer cloudy intervals) - it gives the data an interesting "array of stacks" view:


And here is a chart showing the average-per-time-of-day and maximum-per-time-of-day power production (note that in all these charts time-of-day has been corrected for daylight savings).  The max is over 5 kilowatts, which is consistent with the design of the array.  The average peaks around 3 kilowatts - and note that we very frequently have cloudy weather in the 2-3 hours after noon in Colorado.  This shows up clearly in the average:


Over the past year, our array has produced 8.1 megawatt-hours of energy, averaging 20.8 kilowatt-hours per day.  As expected, this is roughly 2/3 of our electric use.  I'll see what other interesting data I can tease out of this in the coming weeks...

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