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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • Merlin139
    Merlin139 Posts: 7,274 Forumite
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    Better day today, a round 6 kWh's

    1.51 O's
    3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds

  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,029 Forumite
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    Close to the "O" zone:eek:...0.925 Os here: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.
  • ASavvyBuyer
    ASavvyBuyer Posts: 1,737 Forumite
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    0.42 O's today.
  • Markj1110
    Markj1110 Posts: 912 Forumite
    legoman62 wrote: »
    Close to the "O" zone:eek:...0.925 Os here:D

    A little bit closer to an "O" yesterday - 0.98 O's. Today its raining and dull!
    3.96 kWp System, SSE Facing, 30 Degree Pitch, 12 x 330W BenQ Panels, Solar Edge Inverter, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. Installed 26th May 2015.
  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    Markj1110 wrote: »
    A little bit closer to an "O" yesterday - 0.98 O's. Today its raining and dull!
    'Lucky Man'; 0.16 O's today..:mad:..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: 7,274 Forumite
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    Oscargrouch wrote: »
    'Lucky Man'; 0.16 O's today..:mad:..coffee.gif

    Lucky for you! 0.139 O's

    My worst of the month!
    3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds

  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,029 Forumite
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    Merlin139 wrote: »
    Lucky for you! 0.139 O's

    My worst of the month!
    Inbetweener:) 0.15 O’s for me 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.
  • Markj1110
    Markj1110 Posts: 912 Forumite
    Oh dear, 0.11 O's yesterday! worst day this month!!
    3.96 kWp System, SSE Facing, 30 Degree Pitch, 12 x 330W BenQ Panels, Solar Edge Inverter, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. Installed 26th May 2015.
  • zeupater
    zeupater Posts: 5,390 Forumite
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    edited 18 December 2017 at 7:02PM
    Hi All

    18 days into December & we've just had our first day above 1kWh/kWp (1.14) for the month ... currently hitting ~48% of the daily target - 5 days without any generation in addition to the other poor days leaves the optimism tank more than a little light!

    The pile of snow from the panels finished melting away today, so I've spent half of the afternoon daylight hours (there's not many!) up a ladder sorting the guttering out. The weight of the snow overhang actually bent the plastic brackets out of shape and the guttering was twisted to 45degrees & jammed against the roof tiles ... took ages (& plenty of water running up a sleeve) to get it to clip back under the tiles then a while longer with a heat-gun to re-shape the brackets, but all looks well now ..,

    Panels look really clean, guessed they would seeing the dirt which was in the pile of snow which slid off, but two thing have had to go onto my 'to do later' list .. scrubbing the rounded aluminium profile at the bottom edge of the mounting frame as it's a little green - and I noticed that a couple of cable ties have failed leaving cables & connectors lying on the tiles, so I'll have a think about how to lift them without removing the panels ...

    HTH
    Z
    "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit. " ...... Aristotle
    B)
  • SalsaDanca
    SalsaDanca Posts: 434 Forumite
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    I now have a whole year's data from my energy monitor

    Total consumption: 3,283 kWh
    Total solar: 3,640 kWh

    Consumption from grid: 1,754 (53% of consumption)
    Consumption from solar: 1,529 (47% of consumption)

    Solar exported: 2,111 kWh (58% of solar generation)
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