Category: Solar Panels

This information is a report on energy production from the solar panels on the roof at Church of the Redeemer.

April 2020

Week	Peak Power	Energy Produced
04/01/2020 – 04/07/2020	21.5 kW	717 kWh
04/08/2020 – 04/14/2020	20.9 kW	964 kWh
04/15/2020 – 04/21/2020	20.7 kW	750 kWh
04/22/2020 – 04/28/2020	22.4 kW	583 kWh
04/29/2020 – 04/30/2020	19.4 kW	227 kWh
April 2020 Total:		3.24 MWh
Previous Month Total:		2.38 MWh
Year to Date:	7.58 MWh

Your Carbon Offset for this month: 2.24 tons

You have offset the equivalent of 57 trees.

May 2020

Week	Peak Power	Energy Produced
05/01/2020 – 05/07/2020	22.3 kW	779 kWh
05/08/2020 – 05/14/2020	21.3 kW	887 kWh
05/15/2020 – 05/21/2020	20.7 kW	626 kWh
05/22/2020 – 05/28/2020	20.6 kW	750 kWh
05/29/2020 – 05/31/2020	12.2 kW	214 kWh
May 2020 Total:		3.26 MWh
Previous Month Total:		3.24 MWh
Year to Date:		10.8 MWh

Your Carbon Offset for this month: 2.25 tons

You have offset the equivalent of 58 trees.

June 2020

Week	Peak Power	Energy Produced
06/01/2020 – 06/07/2020	21.7 kW	810 kWh
06/08/2020 – 06/14/2020	21.8 kW	619 kWh
06/15/2020 – 06/21/2020	21.6 kW	792 kWh
06/22/2020 – 06/28/2020	20.5 kW	837 kWh
06/29/2020 – 06/30/2020	20.4 kW	183 kWh
June 2020 Total:		3.24 MWh
Previous Month Total:		3.26 MWh
Year to Date:		14.1 MWh

Your Carbon Offset for this month: 2.24 tons

You have offset the equivalent of 57 trees.

The solar panels at Church of the Redeemer were paid for by a bequest of John Pearson.

Church of the Redeemer

Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

This information is a report on energy production from the solar panels on the roof at Church of the Redeemer.

January 2020

Week	Peak Power	Energy Produced
01/01/2020 – 01/07/2020	12.0 kW	123 kWh
01/08/2020 – 01/14/2020	9.19 kW	51.9 kWh
01/15/2020 – 01/21/2020	11.6 kW	135 kWh
01/22/2020 – 01/28/2020	15.0 kW	175 kWh
01/29/2020 – 01/31/2020	6.38 kW	37.9 kWh
January 2020 Total:		523 kWh
Previous Month Total:		400 kWh
Year to Date:		523 kWh

Your carbon offset for this month: 796 lbs

You have offset the equivalent of 9 trees.

February 2020

Week	Peak Power	Energy Produced
02/01/2020 – 02/07/2020	14.6 kW	168 kWh
02/08/2020 – 02/14/2020	16.2 kW	279 kWh
02/15/2020 – 02/21/2020	19.7 kW	522 kWh
02/22/2020 – 02/28/2020	19.0 kW	407 kWh
02/29/2020 – 02/29/2020	18.3 kW	56.8 kWh
February 2020 Total:		1.43 MWh
Previous Month Total:		523 kWh
Year to Date:		1.96 MWh

Your carbon offset for this month: 2,183 lbs

You have offset the equivalent of 25 trees.

March 2020

Week	Peak Power	Energy Produced
03/01/2020 – 03/07/2020	18.3 kW	321 kWh
03/08/2020 – 03/14/2020	22.3 kW	502 kWh
03/15/2020 – 03/21/2020	20.0 kW	828 kWh
03/22/2020 – 03/28/2020	21.2 kW	428 kWh
03/29/2020 – 03/31/2020	21.2 kW	305 kWh
March 2020 Total:		2.38 MWh
Previous Month Total:		1.43 MWh
Year to Date:		4.34 MWh

Your carbon offset for this month: 1.65 tons

You have offset the equivalent of 42 trees.

Quarterly Production

Year and quarter to Date: 4.34 MWh

Lifetime value: 133.32 MWh

The solar panels at Church of the Redeemer were paid for by a bequest of John Pearson.

Church of the Redeemer

Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

 

The solar panels are installed. The permits have been applied for. We are ready to turn on the switch on to conclude the solar project. So, it must be time for a party.

A dedication picnic is scheduled for June 14, 2015, following the 10:30 am service. There are sign up sheets in the parish hall in the undercroft.

Church of the Redeemer will provide hot dogs, veggie burgers, and hamburgers.

Church of the Redeemer

Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

The Vestry at Church of the Redeemer has received news on April 16, 2015, from the company installing the solar panels. We have our permits. This means that the solar panel project will move forward in the near future.

As you may recall, John Pearson made a generous donation to Church of the Redeemer to cover the cost of the installation of the solar panels. Before he died the funds for the project were put in an escrow account. These dedicated funds can be used only for the installation of the solar panels.

We do not yet have a firm date for the installation. Installing the solar panels will require cranes lifting the panels onto the roof and then affixing them. We do not anticipate any change to the profile of the church building. After the panels are in place, there will be extensive wiring to enable us to generate electricity and to sell the excess back to the Puget Sound Energy.

We will keep you up to date as we know more.

—The Rector and the Vestry of Church of the Redeemer

Solar Panel Project

The Vestry of Church of the Redeemer has approved plans for a 90-panel solar panel system on the huge, flat roof. This will generate at least 26,000 kilowatt hours per year, much of which will help supply the local community grid.

Installation by West Seattle Natural Energy will begin as soon as final preparations finish. This includes permitting from the City of Kenmore.

Read more about the Solar Panel Project.

John Pearson

Church of the Redeemer was touched in many meaningful ways by John Pearson, who died on December 27, 2014. Read how John Pearson added to life at Church of the Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer

Community life at Redeemer centers on worship in the Episcopal tradition. Art and music vitally deepen this worship. Our faith expresses itself with service to people, locally to internationally.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

Church of the Redeemer is about to go solar.

The Vestry of Church of the Redeemer has approved plans for a 90-panel solar panel system on the huge, flat roof. This will generate at least 26,000 kilowatt hours per year, much of which will help supply the local community grid.

Installation by West Seattle Natural Energy will begin as soon as final preparations finish. This includes permitting from the City of Kenmore.

Cost to install the solar panel system

The cost is an estimated $80,000, plus some building electrical modifications.

Each panel, manufactured by SolarWorld at it’s plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, produces 280 watts at peak. This gives our system total of about 26 kilowatts at peak sun times. View the type of solar panels to be installed.

Enphase makes the inverter.

A publicly visible readerboard, showing energy production and carbon offset numbers, also is planned.

Redeemer will also receive a $1,000 rebate for the project from an IBEW local.

Current electricity use by Church of the Redeemer

Puget Sound Energy charges $.0856 per kilowatthour. Roughly, the church uses about the following in power:

• 125 kilowatthours daily, which costs $11
• 3,750 kilowatthours monthly, which costs $321
• 4,500 kWhrs. annually, which costs $3,852

How the solar panels will affect the electric bills

The solar panel system is expected to shave about $3,000 off the annual energy bill for Church of the Redeemer.

The expected annual energy production credit from Puget Sound Energy is currently estimated at $4,300. This payment will revert to Church of the Redeemer when the funder, a congregation member, is rembursed. After that, the total annual savings for Church of the Redeemer will be an estimated $7,100.

Pictures of solar panel installations

Click these pictures to see larger versions.

This picture is of a 1-megawatt rooftop system of SolarWorld panels. This installation is the largest in the southeast United States. It is at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. This has many more panels than the 90 to be installed at Redeemer.

This picture is of a solar panel system installed as part of the parking garage at Trinity Lutheran College in Everett, Washington.

Church of the Redeemer

Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.