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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • EricMears
    EricMears Posts: 3,313 Forumite
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    Martyn1981 wrote: »
    Weird weather!
    Afraid it's pretty normal for time of year. Apparently, a 'white easter' happens far more often than a 'white xmas' ! And of course this year's easter is earlier than usual.

    As ever, weather forecasters managed to supply very misleading forecasts. Yesterday was supposed to be mainly sunny but we only saw brief sunny intervals (totalling 4kWh). Today was supposed to be rainy with chance of snow on high ground; we're not on high ground but woke up to see an inch of snow on ground and still snowing. That turned to rain eventually and has now stopped but snow on panels has yet to thaw so generating nothing.
    NE Derbyshire.4kWp S Facing 17.5deg slope (dormer roof).24kWh of Pylontech batteries with Lux controller BEV : Hyundai Ioniq5
  • Crowmann
    Crowmann Posts: 136 Forumite
    zeupater wrote: »
    Hi

    That's ever so high .. I was talking to someone from that area over the weekend and they've just about achieved 250kWh with a 4kWp south facing system which is around 30% down on a target of ~350kWh, so a 4.2kWh would more likely be around 263kWh, not 363 ...

    Around here we're well behind target too, we hit just over 60%, but I was told that it's been pretty miserable over there too as we were talking about how poor it's been for a while (as you do!) .... are you sure that the reading is correct?

    HTH
    Z

    Z - Hmmm I ran back through the numbers and you are correct - March production was a less than impressive 325 V target of 388. 84%.

    I have been just jotting the numbers down on a rather embarrassing collection of bits of paper since install - stapled together mind LOL with even Post-its stuck on - sadly this saw me lose Febs numbers so I popped in what I thought they were in the new and back dated Excel spreadsheet.

    Wrong. Happily I recalled I had posted them on here and corrected the stats from looking at my post history.
    16 265w panels South facing, 45 degrees, West Norfolk.
  • django01
    django01 Posts: 95 Forumite
    71% of PVGIS. 254 kwh vs 356 kwh. Improved numbers from Feb will go someway towards the catch up.. April too has got off to a 'flying start'!!
    4.65kw PV LG 310w, SMA inverter and monitoring. SW London. Installed - 12/10/16
    Heat Genius smart home heating - 12/02/15
  • EricMears
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    After a slow start (under 2" of snow") panels burst into life at 1:25pm managing a magnificent 57Wh during the afternoon :D Oh well, another day tomorrow.
    NE Derbyshire.4kWp S Facing 17.5deg slope (dormer roof).24kWh of Pylontech batteries with Lux controller BEV : Hyundai Ioniq5
  • cjmillsnun
    cjmillsnun Posts: 615 Forumite
    Meh... 0.774 O's or 2.23kWh for those not working in O's.
    2.88 kWp System, SE Facing, 30 Degree Pitch, 12 x 240W Conergy Panels, Samil Solar River Inverter, Havant, Hampshire. Installed July 2012, acquired by me on purchase of house in August 2017
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,064 Forumite
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    Torrential rain most of today = 0.375 O’s: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.
  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    Yesterday made 1.92 O's...:(
    legoman62 wrote: »
    Torrential rain most of today = 0.375 O’s:D
    Today made 1.12 O's..: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: 7,314 Forumite
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    edited 3 April 2018 at 8:24AM
    Aprils continues with the Crap start!

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

  • ASavvyBuyer
    ASavvyBuyer Posts: 1,737 Forumite
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    2.8 O's for today.
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,064 Forumite
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    Better day here today 2.875 O’s: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.
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