Solar Eclipse: Old Man Shakes Fist at Moon

April 8, 2024

Today’s solar eclipse took a healthy bite out of our solar energy production for the day. According to the details on timeanddate.com, the partial eclipse in our area lasted from 2:04 pm until 4:32 pm (Eastern).

Those times line up perfectly with the dip shown on our dashboard:

Solar dashboard with eclipse time highlighted.

Solar dashboard with eclipse time highlighted.

 

Unfortunately we couldn’t find our solar eclipse glasses, so we had to fall back to ye olde pinhole method.

Update (2024-04-09): Several comments on this Ars Technica article also show dips in solar energy production.