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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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Goodish start to the day. Reasonable morning, poor afternoon, but picked up after 4:30
Passed 400 kWh for the month. 3.81 O's3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds4 -
14.5 kWh, 3.27 O's. Output fell off a cliff at 11:20 but we still managed to squeeze over the 1MWh line (installed on 25 Jan).
and now at 91% PVGIS 4 -
Another poor 1.87 O's yesterday. Just dull.
6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.3 -
Cloudy dullish day. Sun did turn up around 2pm for half hour but I never saw it.
Now its darker and raining. 3.53 O's
PVGIS reached this afternoon.
3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds4 -
Another poor day 2.5 & 1.881 O's - bucketing it down yet again2 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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Miserable April day here. 2.575 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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Only 1.52 O's here, dull with drizzle in the afternoon.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 Outgoing3 -
11kWh or 2.48 O's. A pretty dull day but the rain held of until about 6.
Edit: held off!4 -
3.9 and 2.1 O's for the last couple of days. Bit of an anticlimax after he heady heights of Tuesday, but still enough to cover most of our usage during the day and to maintain a net export.Marginally ahead of PV-GIS for the year.3.6 kW PV in the Midlands - 9x Sharp 400W black panels - 6x facing SE and 3x facing SW, Solaredge Optimisers and Inverter. 400W Derril Water (one day). Octopus Flux3
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4.1 O's for yesterday and now at 85% of pvgis, but decidedly overcast 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.5
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