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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • Chris_Type_R
    Chris_Type_R Posts: 186 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    33 O's for me for the month of January. 
    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)
  • Merlin139
    Merlin139 Posts: 7,382 Forumite
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    Good reasonable start to February.

    2.75 O's
    3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds

  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,105 Forumite
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    Miserable windy day here. 0.85 O’s 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.
  • ggmf
    ggmf Posts: 819 Forumite
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    1.7 & 0.339 O's up and down type of day
    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.
  • Coastalwatch
    Coastalwatch Posts: 3,729 Forumite
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    1.95 O's today so carrying on where Jan left off. :)
    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.
  • Spies
    Spies Posts: 2,279 Forumite
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    Rubbish start to the month 0.1
    4.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria. 
  • Alnat1
    Alnat1 Posts: 4,000 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Photogenic Name Dropper
    0.61 O's today, was hoping for better numbers this month
    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 
  • Coastalwatch
    Coastalwatch Posts: 3,729 Forumite
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    It's all the 2's day 02/02/2022 and our panels returned 2.02 O's. Which is amazing as the forecast didn't show one ray :) of sunshine for any hour today in our postcode!
    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.
  • ggmf
    ggmf Posts: 819 Forumite
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    going backwards 0.9 & 0.625 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.
  • Martyn1981
    Martyn1981 Posts: 15,576 Forumite
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    January results.

    Great month with 122% of target. Small spread, with 123% for the ESE and 120% for the WNW.

    Generated 116kWh (20.79 O's).
    Imported 490kWh.
    Exported 41kWh.
    Consumed 565kWh. 
    Gas was ~1,364kWh. 

    BEV driving all night rate for now, not enough PV yet.  A2A units used when PV spare, but also being used (on expensive day rate leccy) as a good alternative to heating the whole house with GCH, on occasions.


    Mart. Cardiff. 8.72 kWp PV systems (2.12 SSW 4.6 ESE & 2.0 WNW). 28kWh battery storage. Two A2A units for cleaner heating. Two BEV's for cleaner driving.

    For general PV advice please see the PV FAQ thread on the Green & Ethical Board.
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