Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

KevinG

A grim October, 17.2% below PVGIS, one of my worst.

pete-20-11

PVGIS at 78.2% this month 

74.3% for Sept. 

I'm wondering if my figures are a bit low as my system isn't oversized. Possibly should have got them to add an extra panel although that would have not been so neat. 

Alnat1

0.42 O's for today

PVGIS 106% for October, last few days were poor but still my best Oct so far

legoman62

legoman62 said:

1.625 O’s here today. Might get to 50 O’s this month🤔

Finished the month on 48.25 O’s.
4th worst October in last 13.

Magnitio

Another poor month at 91% of PVGIS. Last two years, October has been 129% and 111%. 

Just checked the outlook for the next week and there is no sun in the forecast!

Merlin139

Poor day. 0.48 O's

61.72 O's for the month.

October 24 ranked 6th out of 11 

105.48% of PVGIS for the month.

107.69% of PVGIS for 10 months of the year. Mean average for the system is 113.3 %

At this point 200 kWh behind my worst year in 2017. That year had my highest Nov and Dec production figures. I wonder if 2024 will be the same?

In 2017 Nov produced 129.9 of PVGIS and Dec produced 134.1 % of PVGIS

Martyn1981

October results. 

Very poor month with 80% of target. Wide spread, with 77% for the ESE/SSW and 94% for the WNW. 

Generated 330kWh (37.83 O's).
Imported 367kWh.
Exported 15kWh.
Total consumption 712kWh. 
Gas was ~110kWh. [DHW & oven.]

Consumption reasonable. BEV charging was a mix of PV and cheap rate but mostly cheap rate now. GCH is still off.

Worst Oct result, but in the nicest possible way, good to see many others with similar %age.

Currently projecting 87% for the year, which would 'smash' our worst year 2017 which was 99%.

[Issues with upgraded system now hopefully sorted. Looks like Oct was first proper test of all the toys. Hope to reduce daytime import to a minimum, was ~15kWh sneaking past the batts/inverter. But time will tell. If all goes to plan, then almost all leccy will now be PV, or cheap rate. Plenty of headroom still with the A2A units, not yet running 24/7. Should cope with Nov, then additional heating as we enter Dec.

Looks like this Oct about 200kWh of leccy higher than usual, but no GCH.]

NedS

pete-20-11 said:

PVGIS at 78.2% this month 

74.3% for Sept. 

I'm wondering if my figures are a bit low as my system isn't oversized. Possibly should have got them to add an extra panel although that would have not been so neat. 

It shouldn't make any difference this time of year. If you had an oversized array (more capacity than inverter can handle), then in summer the system output would be capped by the inverter which may give lower values assuming you've entered the array size into PVGIS and not the inverter size.

pete-20-11

0.28 Os today. Hoping some sun tomorrow 

Martyn1981

Hoping for some sunshine I checked the forecast for Cardiff ....... well, it made me laugh: