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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • QrizB
    QrizB Posts: 20,752 Forumite
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    Three days to report ...
    Tues: 11.82kWh, 4.35 O's B)
    Weds: 6.09kWh, 2.24 O's :)
    Thurs: 9.29kWh, 3.42 O's B)
    2/3rds of the month's predicted output in the bag so far!
    N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.
    2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 34 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.
    Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
  • Magnitio
    Magnitio Posts: 1,263 Forumite
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    Promised to be good on the forecast, so big wash day planned; turned out to be pretty poor at 1.49 O's. Tomorrow's forecast appears to be rubbish as well.
    6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.
  • Alnat1
    Alnat1 Posts: 4,000 Forumite
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    A decent day here in Yorkshire, lots of blue sky and not much cloud at all 3.39 O's
    Barnsley, South Yorkshire
    Solar PV 5.25kWp SW facing (14 x 375) installed Mar 22 
    Lux 3.6kw hybrid inverter and 9.6kw Pylontech batteries 
    Daikin 8kW ASHP installed Jan 25
    Octopus Cosy/Fixed Outgoing 
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,105 Forumite
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    2nd best day this month. Exactly 3 O's 🤣😂
    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.
  • Merlin139
    Merlin139 Posts: 7,379 Forumite
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    We had Sun. Clouds also popped in and out.

    Todays graph looks more of a steep mountain range.

    3.63 O's Just under 73% of Estimate in the bag.
    3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds

  • ggmf
    ggmf Posts: 819 Forumite
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    Very poor down here, 0.9 & 0.4 O's
    2 Separate arrays, 7 x JASolar 380w panels (2.66kWp) south facing, 4 x JASolar 380w panels (1.52kWp) east facing, 11 x Tigo optimizers & cloud, Growatt SPH5000, Growatt 6.5kWh Hybrid battery (Go-live 01/12/21) - Additional reporting via Solar Assistant.
  • Spies
    Spies Posts: 2,279 Forumite
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    Mediocre 1.5 but I'm 108% of PVGIS so far. 
    4.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria. 
  • QrizB
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    Dull here today.
    1.61kWh, 0.59 O's :cry:
    N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.
    2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 34 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.
    Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,105 Forumite
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    2.35 O's here on the E coast 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.
  • Averaging 10kw per day for Oct so far which is 2.4 O's for my system. Weather has been ok, still quite mild and when the Sun shines I get 3kwp from the panels which is decent.
    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.
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