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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • ASavvyBuyer
    ASavvyBuyer Posts: 1,737 Forumite
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    4.5 O's today.
  • countryman_2
    countryman_2 Posts: 421 Forumite
    Hawaii and .1 O's today in sunny Lincolnshire :j
    4kw PV fitted 4th July 2014 (Green Energy NW £5600). WSW facing, 30 deg Pitch, Unshaded, Samil Solar River inverter, 16 Solar World Mono panels, Iboost on Immersion Heater. located in mid Lincolnshire.
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 4,998 Forumite
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    4.75 O's here today:)

    Getting close to Hawaii. Will be closer this week.....well 2500 miles closer;)
    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.
  • old_grouser
    old_grouser Posts: 176 Forumite
    6.1 Os yesterday, and 6.3 Os today, and a forecast of sun all day tomorrow on the sunny south coast. Boring! I made a suggestion in a post on St Patrick's Day that 25 Os over five days would really be something to celebrate, as opposed to the occasional Hawaii. Now I realise I'll be there by about 9am tomorrow, and the dream score ought to be 30 Os over five days - a really high five! I wonder if I or anyone else will manage this.
    O G :cool: Somewhere on the South Downs
    3.29kWp S by E
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  • Oscargrouch
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    old_grouser wrote: »
    6.1 Os yesterday, and 6.3 Os today, and a forecast of sun all day tomorrow on the sunny south coast. Boring! I made a suggestion in a post on St Patrick's Day that 25 Os over five days would really be something to celebrate, as opposed to the occasional Hawaii. Now I realise I'll be there by about 9am tomorrow, and the dream score ought to be 30 Os over five days - a really high five! I wonder if I or anyone else will manage this.
    I can't at the moment, but soon to be back..eusa_think.gif..0.00 O's again today..:(...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).
  • Merlin139
    Merlin139 Posts: 7,259 Forumite
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    Yesterday was good. More like a cone than a curve. Still best day of the year, just!

    6.17 O's Have to break the 25 kWh barrier. Maybe today?
    3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds

  • NigeWick
    NigeWick Posts: 2,729 Forumite
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    ajbell wrote: »
    6.25 O's today.
    Same 6.25 for me in Spalding.
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  • Martyn1981
    Martyn1981 Posts: 15,404 Forumite
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    National Grid reported a record yesterday with 8GW of PV generation, supplying 25% of demand at times.

    Gridwatch have changed the relevant graph from 7GW to 8GW as PV was going into the headings at 7GW, but is now doing the same at 8GW.
    Mart. Cardiff. 8.72 kWp PV systems (2.12 SSW 4.6 ESE & 2.0 WNW). 20kWh battery storage. Two A2A units for cleaner heating. Two BEV's for cleaner driving.

    For general PV advice please see the PV FAQ thread on the Green & Ethical Board.
  • Markj1110
    Markj1110 Posts: 912 Forumite
    5.45 O's yesterday. A HAWAII. :)
    3.96 kWp System, SSE Facing, 30 Degree Pitch, 12 x 330W BenQ Panels, Solar Edge Inverter, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. Installed 26th May 2015.
  • EricMears
    EricMears Posts: 3,309 Forumite
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    edited 9 April 2017 at 10:59AM
    Martyn1981 wrote: »
    National Grid reported a record yesterday with 8GW of PV generation, supplying 25% of demand at times.

    Gridwatch have changed the relevant graph from 7GW to 8GW as PV was going into the headings at 7GW, but is now doing the same at 8GW.
    I'd be interested to know how NG get their figures for PV generation. My guess would be that it can only include commercial solar farms who are measuring output and charging NG for it. They can't have any idea of how much I generated yesterday nor that of the majority of home PV systems.

    My 22 kWh is obviously trivial but if thousands of other system's output is going unrecorded then the true figure for total PV generation may well be even higher than published.


    Apparently Sheffield Uni are estimating what we might be generating by monitoring 244 individual sites and (presumably) multiplying it up by total kWp of such sites
    https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive
    NE Derbyshire.4kWp S Facing 17.5deg slope (dormer roof).24kWh of Pylontech batteries with Lux controller BEV : Hyundai Ioniq5
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