Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Kernel_Sanders

Coastalwatch wrote: »

Just to level matters up a little, 2.05 O's today with 83% donated to the grid.

And just how much will you be paid for this 'donation'?

Merlin139

Worst day of the month again!

1.48 O's

M0ney

Hi guys,


I'm quite new to this, I had solar installed in March 14th, to date I have produced 2795Kwh and my system is 4.56Kwp, I'm hoping that I will be able to produce at least 4000, I'm in northern Scotland (Moray) and my roof is fairly shallow, at a guess I would say 30-35degrees but I'm not sure, my roof faces 200 degree so just a little off due south slightly towards the west, is anyone able to give me an idea of how much lower my generation will be over the next 6 months as opposed to the previous 6 months?


Also, can I ask....What are "O's"?

zeupater

M0ney wrote: »

Hi guys,


I'm quite new to this, I had solar installed in March 14th, to date I have produced 2795Kwh and my system is 4.56Kwp, I'm hoping that I will be able to produce at least 4000, I'm in northern Scotland (Moray) and my roof is fairly shallow, at a guess I would say 30-35degrees but I'm not sure, my roof faces 200 degree so just a little off due south slightly towards the west, is anyone able to give me an idea of how much lower my generation will be over the next 6 months as opposed to the previous 6 months?


Also, can I ask....What are "O's"?

Hi

Run a quick search on 'PVGIS4' or 'PVGIS5' (latest beta release), either should turn up results linking to a tool which will provide a breakdown of generation by month.

HTH
Z

# Edit : An 'O' represents levelised energy generation in terms kWh/kWp for comparison purposes ... it's a form of abbreviation only used on this forum!

KevinG

M0ney wrote: »

is anyone able to give me an idea of how much lower my generation will be over the next 6 months as opposed to the previous 6 months?

Based on my PVGIS estimates, my generation from September to February is about 46% of my generation from March to August. In practice it's less than that as I have a bit of shading in the winter and tend to exceed PVGIS more often in Summer. So, if your figures are similar you should be roughly on track for 4000kWh.

Coastalwatch

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

And just how much will you be paid for this 'donation'?

By a strange coincidence based on the export rate only, 83p.

Didn't sleep that well either!:o

Martyn1981

M0ney wrote: »

Hi guys,


I'm quite new to this, I had solar installed in March 14th, to date I have produced 2795Kwh and my system is 4.56Kwp, I'm hoping that I will be able to produce at least 4000, I'm in northern Scotland (Moray) and my roof is fairly shallow, at a guess I would say 30-35degrees but I'm not sure, my roof faces 200 degree so just a little off due south slightly towards the west, is anyone able to give me an idea of how much lower my generation will be over the next 6 months as opposed to the previous 6 months?


Also, can I ask....What are "O's"?

Hiya. I had a quick play on PVGIS using the info you posted, but you can be more accurate as I just stuck a pin in Moray. Here are the monthly generation estimates based on an average year, so obviously expect them to vary depending on the weather.

Jan 110
Feb 199
Mar 361
Apr 467
May 563
Jun 480
Jul 475
Aug 414
Sep 349
Oct 227
Nov 139
Dec 86.6

Total for year 3870

Have fun.

M0ney

Thanks very much everyone, hopefully I will meet my target...I do have a wee spreadsheet for my generation I do record O's too, I also have gone on to timeanddate.com and recorded the number of Kwhs generated per hour of daylight (time between sunrise and sunset) unfortunately the nearest location to me is Inverness which is about 50 miles or Fraserburgh, which I would say is about this same distance away. Does anyone else measure their generation against daylight hours?

shavy65

Aright M0ney! Nice to have someone else up this neck of the woods for me to compare against.
I think you`ll find the PVGIS estimates quite accurate across the duration of a year!

zeupater

M0ney wrote: »

Thanks very much everyone, hopefully I will meet my target...I do have a wee spreadsheet for my generation I do record O's too, I also have gone on to timeanddate.com and recorded the number of Kwhs generated per hour of daylight (time between sunrise and sunset) unfortunately the nearest location to me is Inverness which is about 50 miles or Fraserburgh, which I would say is about this same distance away. Does anyone else measure their generation against daylight hours?

Hi

There's probably a couple of local(ish) systems to compare your generation to on the PVOutput website ... have a quick search for - 'pvoutput solar monitoring & comparison' ..

Have a look into teams & select the United Kingdom then select Map & zoom in on your area ...

HTH
Z