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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,032 Forumite
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    edited 31 May 2016 at 5:07PM
    legoman62 wrote: »
    4.325 O's here today...most of it made this afternoon:T

    Need 3 O's to hit 500kWh for May:D

    Torrential rain forecast tomorrow:eek:

    Only need 12kWh to hit 500kWh for May...Not PVGIS, that's 517kWh:eek:

    Made 0.624kWh today so far (12.45)...No chance! What a day here:mad:
    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.
  • EricMears
    EricMears Posts: 3,313 Forumite
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    PVGIS May Forecast : 474kWh
    Actual Gen : 505kWh
    'surplus' 31kWh (or 6.5%)


    The month really hasn't felt all that special but the figures probably owe a lot to the shallow angle collecting a lot of 'background scatter' from clouds as well as the direct sunshine.
    NE Derbyshire.4kWp S Facing 17.5deg slope (dormer roof).24kWh of Pylontech batteries with Lux controller BEV : Hyundai Ioniq5
  • ajbell
    ajbell Posts: 1,151 Forumite
    Declaring early today as no sun here.
    0.56 Os today.


    528kWh for May, 113% of PVGIS and only 68kWh taken from grid in May.
    4kWp, South facing, 16 x phono solar panels, Solis inverter, Lincolnshire.
  • ASavvyBuyer
    ASavvyBuyer Posts: 1,737 Forumite
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    edited 31 May 2016 at 7:30PM
    Just gone through 500kwh today for May. PVGIS estimate was 428kwh.
    Average of just over 4 O's per day for the month. Not bad for a west facing system.
  • carbry
    carbry Posts: 228 Forumite
    Fourth Anniversary
    wet miserable day 0.4 O's
    3.13 kWp system, south facing, East Coast lincolnshire. Installed dec 2015
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,032 Forumite
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    Deeesastrous day here today. Made 0.4 O's:(

    Total for May = 489.3kWh compared to:-
    May 2015 517kWh:beer:
    May 2014 483.7kWh

    May 2013 497kWh

    May 2012 497.7kWh

    And May is supposed to be my best month...:eek:
    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.
  • zeupater
    zeupater Posts: 5,390 Forumite
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    zeupater wrote: »
    zeupater wrote: »
    Two more fifth month totals passed today ('15 & '13) - slowly clawing back the poor performance over last winter and it's still possible to end up with this month's total sitting at the top of the May list ...

    Z

    May 2011 total passed just before midday .... chasing down that of table-topping 2012 now ...

    Z
    That's it for the day - Ended up bettering May 2012 and raising the bar by ~1%, so pretty reasonable .....

    Z
    "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit. " ...... Aristotle
    B)
  • Merlin139
    Merlin139 Posts: 7,281 Forumite
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    1.88 O's here today.

    Not happy! No rain I want my Butt filled and the wife wants hers filled! ;)

    Ended the month on 533.33 kWh 111.8% :)

    May 2015 547 kWh

    Original Estimate 490 kWh Adjusted 477 kWh

    1.66 MWh for the year or 46.6% of Estimate for the year. :j
    3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds

  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    edited 1 June 2016 at 7:39AM
    ajbell wrote: »
    Declaring early today as no sun here.
    0.56 Os today.
    I waited, but I think the chance of any sun has now been passed..flame.gif:mad: Ended today with 0.84 O's = 3.32 O's short from May '15 result...:eek:...tears-of-joy-smiley-emoticon.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).
  • theboylard
    theboylard Posts: 1,211 Forumite
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    Crunching numbers for changing tarriffs - need me pit I'm knackered!

    But as I'm here...

    ended May with 512kWh/116% of target.

    Surprisingly, it is my second best month since install, but you'd never know it with the weather over the past week!!

    That's me at 31.82% for my solar year (22/3 to 21/3), or 45.22% for the calndar year (Jan to date).

    ttfn
    4kWp, SSE, SolarEdge P300 optimisers & SE3500 Inverter, in occasionally sunny Corby, Northants.
    Now with added Sunsynk 5kw hybrid ecco inverter & 15kWh Fogstar batteries. Oh Octopus Energy too.
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