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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • BossBob
    BossBob Posts: 69 Forumite
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    Just 4.2 O’s today along with £46 credit for my first months export!
    8 x Jinko Tiger Neo 54c 415W, Huawei 3k L1 HV ph Hybrid inverter and 2 x 5kWh LUNA batteries on 15° roof facing SW on the southern edge of Bristol.
  • Alnat1
    Alnat1 Posts: 4,000 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Photogenic Name Dropper
    5.37 O's Looks like May is making up for a rubbish April
    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 
  • Magnitio
    Magnitio Posts: 1,265 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Fourth Anniversary Name Dropper
    4.5 O's for yesterday. Should be better today.
    6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.
  • Merlin139
    Merlin139 Posts: 7,383 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Near perfect day apart from a cloud blip between 13:15 and 14:15

    Maiden + 0.34 O's
    3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds

  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,105 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Maiden + 0.45 O’s here 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.
  • Alnat1
    Alnat1 Posts: 4,000 Forumite
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    edited 24 May 2023 at 10:06PM
    Another record breaking day 34.3kWh and managed it even though it clouded up 12.30-1.30 

    6.53 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 
  • 94JDH
    94JDH Posts: 149 Forumite
    Fourth Anniversary 100 Posts Name Dropper
    45.54KWH here, 6.49 O's Maiden - had it not been that same cloud for around an hour, I'm sure it it would have broken 7th Heaven...... Maybe another time!
    PV total 19.8 kW system:
    23 x 420W East/West split over two flat roof areas at 10 degrees inclination.
    13 x 390W South spit over two flat roof areas at 5 to 20 degrees inclination.
    6 x 390W south wall mounted at 90 degrees inclination.
    7 x 390W West wall mounted at 90 degrees inclination.
    2 x 5 kW hybrid inverters
    4 x 9.5 kWh batteries (38 kWh total)
  • DN8
    DN8 Posts: 23 Forumite
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    7.37 O's

    Had potential to break my record, but mid-day cloud slowed progress 
  • EcoScruples
    EcoScruples Posts: 422 Forumite
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    I need an average of 4.35 O's for the last 7 days to hit PVGIS 
    A 6.3 O's today........
    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.
  • Magnitio
    Magnitio Posts: 1,265 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Fourth Anniversary Name Dropper
    A pretty good 6.29 O's for yesterday, but clouds always seem to appear from nowhere at peak production time.
    6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.
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