Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

SavingFish

First complete month with our system.

Just over 358kwh, or just under 60 Os, which puts us at 105% of target.

Now wondering if I made a mistake in my calculations. Still, I'd rather have underestimated than overestimated

Markj1110

Only managed 0.66 "O" yesterday.:( and only 76% of October pvgis target reached, 187kWh/245kWh.

Pulpdiction

Managed 91.89% of pvgis target for October - very poor month overall, 8 days in the month where I had less than 3kwh per day - and just 0.5kwh in the whole day on the 30th.

EricMears

October results now calculated at 8% below PVGIS (Climate - SAF ) .
October's always been a variable month:-
2011 +18%
2012 +10%
2013 -16%
2014 -19%
2015 -8%

Sterlingtimes

If solar funding is critically reduced on 1 January 2016 will that effectively mark the end of warranties for our existing systems? Presumably, many of our past installers will go belly-up.

EricMears

Sterlingtimes wrote: »

If solar funding is critically reduced on 1 January 2016 will that effectively mark the end of warranties for our existing systems? Presumably, many of our past installers will go belly-up.

Maybe - but probably not.

The warranty on the panels will (hopefully) be registered with the manufacturers of the panels who (again hopefully) won't be affected by a very small drop in their worldwide demand. Likewise, any warranties on inverters or other major components.

What might be at risk would be the warranty on the workmanship involved in installing the system. If you chose the cheapest installer you could find and are relying upon them staying in business to honour their own warranty then you could have problems. If you picked an established local firm with a good name to protect and insisted that any warranty was insurance backed then you're unlikely to have any bother.

ajbell

Aren't warranties insurance based rather than with the installer?.

ajbell

So typically what are you getting right now in KW's i am trying to gauge what i will be able to run when i get my install in 2 weeks time.

EricMears

ajbell wrote: »

Aren't warranties insurance based rather than with the installer?.

Many (possibly even a majority) are but not all. There was a post in this forum recently quoting a particular installer boasting that because they were part of a large group their warranties were safer than any offered by small companies. If both warranties were insurance backed, there would be no point in making such a claim !

rodee13

Newbie in the solar panel world, installed last tuesday and checking the output every now and then on both solaredge and pvoutput :j
As per PVGIS my target for november is 110Kwh and I achieved 100% daily target for today which is 3.667KWh