Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Sterlingtimes

legoman62 wrote: »

I also unplug everything...would turn the F/F off too, but Mrs l would not appreciate;)

http://wattson.energyhive.com/dashboard/legomansenergy

Congratulations on your overnight "zero". Here it's Gadget-central. Apart from two freezer and a large larder fridge, and two mouse zappers there is a lot of equipment on standby. I can't impose a zero-tolerance regime but I will carry out a study.

Andy_WSM

Sterlingtimes wrote: »

Apart from two freezer and a large larder fridge, and two mouse zappers there is a lot of equipment on standby. I can't impose a zero-tolerance regime but I will carry out a study.

I'm the same & a webserver & 2 raid storage arrays & 2 fish tanks. I've got it down as low as I can without major expense and / or giving up my hobbies. But why would I want to do that?!

Soon to be swapping my petrol consumption for electricity too. Not sure what impact that's going to have, but will be an interesting experiment all the same.

Anyway, not such a good day here today and a power cut this afternoon stopped the PV generation too.

Last 100w or so falling out of the sky at the moment, but day will end roughly on 4.5 O's (17.7 kWh).

Merlin139

4.61 O's (18.35 kWh)

Passed 4 Mega Watts :j

Need 200 kWh from the rest of the month to make Est.

We turn off TV's etc at night unless recording. Drastically reduced evening use by changing 5 year old 50 inch Plasma TV to 55 inch LED claims to use only 87 kW per year!

Apart from 1 chest freezer, fridge freezer and stand up freezer the only things on at night are 2 radio alarm clocks. Chest freezer is about 10 years old but always full. Fridge and small freezer are both A+ rated.

Only replaced the 25 year old Zanussi freezer because it was like a little heater in the Kitchen with the electric it was using!

At night we are using around 160 W per hour.

Sterlingtimes

The day finished at 2.9 Os.

Oscargrouch

legoman62 wrote: »

I also unplug everything...would turn the F/F off too, but Mrs l would not appreciate;)

http://wattson.energyhive.com/dashboard/legomansenergy

Me thinks that your EnergyHive info illustrates your base line overnight better if you would care to post....

Thank you to 'Mart'; rubbish day today....3.76 O's cheers Mart.............

legoman62

Oscargrouch wrote: »

Me thinks that your EnergyHive info illustrates your base line overnight better if you would care to post....

Thank you to 'Mart'; rubbish day today....3.76 O's cheers Mart.............

Also say's I've used £25.00 worth of leccy this month when I've only used £7.00 + S/C;)

https://www.energyhive.com/dashboard/legomans

Dull here, with more to come this week:( 3.3 O's for me today:D

Oscargrouch

legoman62 wrote: »

Also say's I've used £25.00 worth of leccy this month when I've only used £7.00 + S/C;)

https://www.energyhive.com/dashboard/legomans

Dull here, with more to come this week:( 3.3 O's for me today:D

EnergyHive Dashboard does not take into account what you have used from PV.
My E/H says I have used £15.37. yet only used £5.61 as of 15th of May(meter).

theboylard

+ Hawaii and a half today, lovely stuff

- stuck in Tenerife. Broken engine, scheduled dep at 11.20, in nice hotel other end of island for 3 pm! Looks like won't be home until early brekkie tomorrow

Boarding plane now, brum here we come

Martyn1981

Oscargrouch wrote: »

Thank you to 'Mart'; rubbish day today....3.76 O's cheers Mart.............

Got 4+ Os, so not too bad.

Just been reading in New Scientist that California is 15yrs into a drought. 5 more and they get to call it a Megadrought. Shall I offer my services?

I'll just pop over and comment on how nice the weather is!

Mart.

mac2008

Was my 2ndPV anniversary yesterday. I was hoping to break the 5MWh mark, but alas I was a few units short at 4,956.9kWh at close of generation yesterday.

Anyway, nicely above official target and in line with PVGIS. Zero maintenance cost, zero problems and the Wattson monitoring has made us more aware of our usage more generallly too. Long term average of 50% of generated leccy used is about right due to other half being in several days per week and using dishwasher and WM on timers So a decent saving there too. I use Good Energy for gas, electricity and FiT and whilst they are slow at paying, they are consistently slow, so still get the money every 3 months.

Roll on the next 6 years, after which the system should have paid for itself. Then I'll replace the inverter when it goes with a new one and a load of batteries, which should cost about the same as a packet of cornflakes by then