Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Oscargrouch

Merlin139 wrote: »

4.73 O's

Heat and cloud kept production down from around 4pm.

Thought when I got in tonight I was going to see Hawaii's every where posted. All in a similar 'sinking boat' me thinks........3.4 O's here...

legoman62

Oscargrouch wrote: »

Thought when I got in tonight I was going to see Hawaii's every where posted. All in a similar 'sinking boat' me thinks........3.4 O's here...

Same here. 3.4 O's....well I think it was:eek:

Back to normal tomorrow:D

defaultdriver

4.14 O's today. Next two days look good.

ajbell

4.99 Os today. And now 19kWh ahead for this month.

SalsaDanca

Sun 11th: 5.5 O's
Mon 12th: 4.8
Tues 13th: 4.0

Now about 3 O's ahead of target for the month.

Markj1110

4.48 O's yesterday, very humid. Today has started misty!

Rheumatoid

Rather miserable 3.925 O's yesterday. today expected to be cloudless all day although it is a bit hazy at the moment and not getting over 2kW yet.

SalsaDanca

I've finally received the first FIT payment for my solar panels from SSE, after sending them the first set of paperwork in April. Over £620 for the three months from early April to early July, and I'm expecting another £600 from the next payment in October. Very pleased with that, as the previous owner of the house told me to expect an income of £1,000 per year from the solar panels.

SalsaDanca

How do you monitor the output from your solar panels? My panels were installed in 2011, and at the time there were no monitoring systems available. I take daily readings from the generation meter, and that's all the information I have except for the red/green light on the Immersun that shows whether there is enough surplus solar energy to run the immersion heater.

I'd like to be able to monitor power generation and know when the house is importing power, preferably from my iPad or a web browser on my PC. Should I ask the electricity company to install a smart meter, or should I install my own monitoring system inside the house? I've been considering the Open Energy Monitor system, which has very customisable reports and can have extra sensors connected to monitor specific appliances, but at £200 for the basic system that might be overkill.

EricMears

SalsaDanca wrote: »

How do you monitor the output from your solar panels? My panels were installed in 2011, and at the time there were no monitoring systems available. I take daily readings from the generation meter, and that's all the information I have except for the red/green light on the Immersun that shows whether there is enough surplus solar energy to run the immersion heater.

I'd like to be able to monitor power generation and know when the house is importing power, preferably from my iPad or a web browser on my PC. Should I ask the electricity company to install a smart meter, or should I install my own monitoring system inside the house? I've been considering the Open Energy Monitor system, which has very customisable reports and can have extra sensors connected to monitor specific appliances, but at £200 for the basic system that might be overkill.

My panels were also installed in 2011 - along with a Sunny Boy inverter which communicates with my computer (running the Sunny Explorer software) via Bluetooth. Don't most other inverters have a similar facility ?

I also have an Immersun which is fitted with the MyImmersun bridge. There are however two snags to that : 1. That wouldn't be compatible with an Immersun fitted in 2011 & of course 2. the company that makes Immersun recently failed and although they've been taken over I'm not sure what the new owners are doing.