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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • Merlin139
    Merlin139 Posts: 7,380 Forumite
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    Total generation for the month was 493.7 kWh 124.2 O's 106.5 % of Estimate

    (3rd worst) High 579.5 kWh Low 435.8 kWh

    Despite it being a poor month its still my best year so far.  2970.4 kWh

    Imported 92 kWh Exported No idea!

    Diverted 158.3 kWh

    Gave my meter readings to Octopus yesterday and somehow added 1 Mega watt to my usage! They accepted it and produced a bill. Dame near gave me a heart attack!

    Amazed they accepted it as my annual usage is 1.7 Mega watts and I had only submitted a previous reading 7 days before!
    3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds

  • 2.3 O's for yesterday bringing the calendar month to a close. July averaged 4.3 O's with 7 maidens. Despite the sunny weather July yielded only 1 kWh more than June - 7% above PVGIS. 

    I have another 3 days to go before my reading is due - I'm in the fortunate/unfortunate position that the FIT cheque payment will be marginally over the limit for depositing by phone - and our local bank branch has closed. First world problems.
    Central Beds, 2.02kWp (9 x 225W) south facing with some morning shade, installed 2011 (£7.16/Wp). Tigo monitoring/optimisers on all panels, Growatt MIC 2000 TL-X Inverter and Solar iBoost installed 2022. (4 x 415W + 6 x 405W garden experiment connected to SunSynk 3.6 hybrid inverter & 2 x 5.3kWh SynSynk batteries) (4 x 405W panels queued to go somewhere)
  • EcoScruples
    EcoScruples Posts: 422 Forumite
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    Stats for July,

    Generation: 577kw
    Consumption: 384kw
    Import: 8.8kw
    Export: 182kw

    I avoided £115 of electricity costs for July.
    4.3kwp JA panels, Huawei 3.68kw Hybrid inverter, Huawei 10kw Lunar 2000 battery, Myenergi eddi, South facing array with a 15 degree roof pitch, winter shade.
  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    I think today may well turn out to be my best day this Month  
    2.5 kWp PV system, SSW facing, 45 Deg Roof. ABB Inverter, Monitor: 'Wattson'.
    Reg. for FIT Nov 2011. "It's not what you generate; it's how you use it that matters". One very clean Vauxhall Diesel Sri, £30.00 Road Tax: B)

    Definition of 'O's = kWh/kWp (kWh = your daily & accurate Generation figure) (kWp = the rated output of your PV Panels).
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,105 Forumite
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    July numbers
    Monthly total 508kWh or 127 O's....5th best out of last 11.
    Imported 87kWh and used 320kWh.
    103% of PVGIS July estimate.
    No gas used this month.

    Already in Hawaii territory today! :)

    16 Sanyo Hit 250s.4kWp SMA 3.8kWp inverter. SW roof. 28° pitch. Minimal shade. Nov 2011 install. Hybrid car. Ripple Kirk Hill. N.E Lincs Coast.
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