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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,062 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Reasonable morning then dull and rain PM =1.6 O's here today:D
    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.
  • carbry
    carbry Posts: 228 Forumite
    Fourth Anniversary
    3.38 O's for me quite sunny in lincolnshire today
    3.13 kWp system, south facing, East Coast lincolnshire. Installed dec 2015
  • ispookie666
    ispookie666 Posts: 1,194 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Another 3.3 O's today.
    The peak power for each system is very individualised and depends on multitude of variables - position of sun and orientation of the panel would be high up... just my two cents
    “Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." - Desmond Tutu

    System 1 - 14 x 250W SunModule SW + Enphase ME215 microinverters (July 2015)
    System 2 - 9.2 KWp + Enphase IQ7+ and IQ8AC (Feb 22 & Sep 24) + Givenergy AC Coupled inverter + 2 * 8.2KWh Battery (May 2022) + Mitsubishi 7.1 KW and 2* Daikin 2.5 KW A2A Heat Pump
  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    carbry wrote: »
    3.38 O's for me quite sunny in lincolnshire today

    Apparently, not the part Leggo is in....smiley-laughing021.gif..coffee.gif
    2.5 kWp PV system, SSW facing, 45 Deg Roof. ABB Inverter, Monitor: 'Wattson'.
    Reg. for FIT Nov 2011. "It's not what you generate; it's how you use it that matters". One very clean Vauxhall Diesel Sri, £30.00 Road Tax: B)

    Definition of 'O's = kWh/kWp (kWh = your daily & accurate Generation figure) (kWp = the rated output of your PV Panels).
  • Crowmann
    Crowmann Posts: 136 Forumite
    edited 20 February 2016 at 10:23AM
    Merlin139 wrote: »
    Hope you have great sun during the year.

    I was predicting 4400 last year around the end of Sept and ended the year of 2015 with 4156 Oct - Dec very bad.

    You just never know!

    3600 seems a low figure for 4.2 kW?


    It is - the installers fitted 265 watt panels thinking they were fitting only fifteen - so the 3608 was based on 3975 total system.


    Recalculating the numbers with what is on the roof and the PVGIS is 3846.


    My/Their bad.


    I will not name the installers but they were easily the most incompetent shower of xxxx I have ever dealt with. They did not have a clue what they were doing. Atrocious.
    16 265w panels South facing, 45 degrees, West Norfolk.
  • ajbell
    ajbell Posts: 1,151 Forumite
    4.15 Os yesterday.
    4kWp, South facing, 16 x phono solar panels, Solis inverter, Lincolnshire.
  • jonokimber
    jonokimber Posts: 13 Forumite
    EricMears wrote: »
    However, you can (sort of) post links by dong something like this :-
    (3ws), dot , Mywebsite domain name, dotORGdotUK, slash, filename

    As long as it doesn't try to form a valid url it will probably be allowed. A mod (i.e. a real live human being) might look at it later and would have the power to zap it but probably wouldn't bother if it looked a reasonable addition to a thread.

    Here goes for my pic post then...

    Damn, still wouldn't let me do it. I'll keep posting and trying...

    Sorry if i seem to be posting lots in order to get my total up.

    Jon
    14 x 285w panels from "8.33" in 2 strings = 3.99kw Growatt 3600MTL 3.6kw Inverter with wifi dongle. Installed Dec 2015, Shrewsbury UK.
  • jonokimber
    jonokimber Posts: 13 Forumite
    I'm liking the suncalc website, gives me a good idea of timings for absolute optimum sun position. Thanks Oscar.

    Jon
    14 x 285w panels from "8.33" in 2 strings = 3.99kw Growatt 3600MTL 3.6kw Inverter with wifi dongle. Installed Dec 2015, Shrewsbury UK.
  • jonokimber
    jonokimber Posts: 13 Forumite
    Right, i've added a signature now, and this is one more post towards being able to post a picture hopefully. Back later and sorry for bombarding, it's quite ironic!
    14 x 285w panels from "8.33" in 2 strings = 3.99kw Growatt 3600MTL 3.6kw Inverter with wifi dongle. Installed Dec 2015, Shrewsbury UK.
  • jonokimber
    jonokimber Posts: 13 Forumite
    Just been looking at my generation for January against PVGIS calcs that are as accurate as I can make them. 117kwh generated versus 109kwh estimated. Also for February so far I am on 146kwh out of 161kwh estimated. Does this match up with other's expectation and realities given the weather? I know it's a locality thing generally but what has the concensus been?

    Thanks

    Jono
    14 x 285w panels from "8.33" in 2 strings = 3.99kw Growatt 3600MTL 3.6kw Inverter with wifi dongle. Installed Dec 2015, Shrewsbury UK.
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