{"id":428,"date":"2013-05-25T18:13:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T18:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon-solar-panel-installation.onfocus.co.uk\/?page_id=428"},"modified":"2013-05-25T18:13:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T18:13:39","slug":"follow-my-solar-journey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/follow-my-solar-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow My Solar Journey<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2000128306385883\"; \/* Blog 6 *\/ google_ad_slot = \"5190657368\"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This blog \u2013 Solar Panel Installation Project follows my solar journey with a diary of my findings, experiences, tribulations and successes of having a solar panel array fitted on my roof. <em>Was it a good idea?<\/em> <em>Was it up to all the hype that surrounded the idea at the time?<\/em> <em>Does it look like a good investment?<\/em> And lots more&#8230;. Read about my discoveries and some of the problems I have endured.<\/p>\n<p>I said at the beginning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI knew absolutely nothing about renewable energies before this project \u2013 maybe I should say interest rather than project, as it began as a curiosity in what my father was researching at the beginning of the summer. In fact at that stage I would never of even contemplated investing in such a undertaking.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 October 2011<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first post can be found here &#8211; <a title=\"Read the journey from the beginning...\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/my-solar-panel-installation-journey\/\">My Solar Panel Installation Journey<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-84\" alt=\"Solar panel mounting rails\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/solar3.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the blog I have\u00a0recorded some of my findings, questions and answers. I have recorded hundreds of solar electricity generation statistics that have been displayed in graphs and tables. If you were looking for information to help decide whether a solar installation is for you \u2013 then the answers could be here. I could of ended the blog some time ago \u2013 the installation was completed and it includes the documented first year&#8217;s experiences of two systems, but thought that it may be of further interest to record more statistics comparing the first couple of years from my <a title=\"Devon County Information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.devonlink.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Devon County<\/a> based system.<\/p>\n<p>Solar generation statistics for the South, South East solar array\u00a0starts here &#8211;<a title=\"Review the statistics\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/south-south-east\/\">Solar Generation Stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Installed solar panel PV array\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/solar4.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow My Solar Journey This blog \u2013 Solar Panel Installation Project follows my solar journey with a diary of my findings, experiences, tribulations and successes of having a solar panel array fitted on my&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-428","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}