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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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Slow Foggy start but burned off quickly. Banging out 1.5 kWh by 10 am.
4th best day of the month and still better than 28 days of November!
7.76 kWh or 1.952 O's
44% of Estimate.
3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds4 -
Worst day since installation. Panels covered in snow and not even a hint of sun. Output peaked at 70W giving a grand total of 0.04 O's.
6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.3 -
Eventually snow slide of South panels, though East remained covered, 0.6 & 0.03 O's - more snow being forecast over the next couple of days2 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.3
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Decent day 1.734.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria.3
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Worst day this month. Freezing cold and misty here. 0.0175 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.4
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0.18 O's. (0.8kWhrs). With a peak of 300W. Not as bad as I thought it would be!4.3kW PV, 3.6kW inverter. Octopus Agile import, gas Tracker. Zoe. Ripple x 3. Cheshire4
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It's been a bit of a mixed bag.10th - 5.43kWh, 2.00 O's
11th - 0.53kWh, 0.19 O's
12th - 0.20kWh, 0.07 O's
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 34 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.5 -
0.6 O's here today.
East coast, lat 51.97. 8.26kw SSE, 23° pitch + 0.59kw WSW vertical. Nissan Leaf plus Zappi charger and 2 x ASHP's. Givenergy 8.2 & 9.5 kWh batts, 2 x 3 kW ac inverters. Indra V2H . CoCharger Host, Interest in Ripple Energy & Abundance.4 -
Less good today, 0.74.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria.3
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Still covered in snow, but more than twice the output of yesterday - 0.09 O's. Probably would have been better to just leave the inverter and battery turned off.
6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.3
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