Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

KevinG

Well that's it, 0.1kWh to end a terrible month, easily my worst ever at 40.47kWh. 11.4% below PVGIS and 33.3% below PVGIS climate. Time to submit my quarterly reading, which will gain me the princely sum of £100.11.

shafeeq

Hi

0.45 kwh today making 70.65 for the month and 113% of PVGIS, first time it achieved 100% or above.

EricMears

shafeeq wrote: »

Hi

0.45 kwh today making 70.65 for the month and 113% of PVGIS, first time it achieved 100% or above.

Suspect that'll be down to next door's tree not having any leaves this month. In which case you can expect another couple of better than forecast months.

Really time that tree had an accident . . . .

Oscargrouch

Happy New Year to all on the thread, here's wishing you all a Great New Year with plenty of ..........

tunnel

Happy new generating year:T
Tunnel

sly_dog_jonah

Ended up with a PVGIS classic +44% in December, mainly thanks to first couple of weeks. In 2011 December was a +16% so a marked improvement in 2012, despite the moistness in Cider Country. Will check the annual figures tomorrow.

Happy New Year PVers

sly_dog_jonah

Even @Bristol's 50kWp array was only kicking out less than 1 Kw this afternoon, even so 0.92kW on a dank afternoon isn't too bad.

Since installation in Feb 2012 (not sure of exact date) it has clocked up 45774 kWh of generation. Looks like it might suffer from shading at some times of the year since it is mounted on a flat roof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQpRqXy19J8&feature=youtu.be

Martyn1981

With my first install in Aug 2011, last year is the first full calendar year for me. Despite it being 'a bit wet' I'm very happy with generation.

Got 3262, against target of 3308. Numbers include extension late July, and target is PVGIS climate.

Crucially, the target takes no account of shading, which the ESE gets a bit, and the WNW gets a lot, so 98.6% of target is fantastic news, especially for 'that' year.

This year target is 4247, wish me luck!

Mart.

sly_dog_jonah

2012 total generation was 3529.2kWh here in Cider Country, against PVGIS Classic of 3203kWh (+10.2%) and PVGIS Climate of 3260kWh (if memory serves me correctly, which we beat by 8.3%). Normalising for the size of our system (3.7kWp panels, 3.68kWp inverter output) that's 954kWh/kWp. Not bad considering our non-Southerly orientation.

I don't have a previous calendar year to compare against, but very happy with those figures given that we had such a wet 2012 and we missed PVGIS targets in June & August.

Oscargrouch

Martyn1981 wrote: »

This year target is 4247, wish me luck!
Mart.

Good Luck Mart; hope it rubs off on all of us..:D

Got a good feeling that today may prove to be my best day 'so far' this year. :rotfl: