Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

legoman62

Rain all day:mad: = 0.125 O's:eek:

Oscargrouch

legoman62 wrote: »

Rain all day:mad: = 0.125 O's:eek:

Well I did romp past you today? A shocking 0.2 O's here..:mad::mad::(..

JKenH

1.05 kWh 0.13 Os

Coastalwatch

After yesterdays Zenith, down to earth today at 0.24 O's or 30% of pvgis.



On the plus side November returned 121%.

ASavvyBuyer

Achieved 97.4% of PVGIS estimate for November.

Not the worst November, but also not the best.

Living_proof

There's an article in the Mail today about families prepping for Brexit and one, in Cornwall, have had solar panels installed in the belief that this would provide them with electricity in times of power cuts. I thought this not to be the case, but have never tested it out. I thought you needed power to change the ac/dc bit so could someone explain please?

Martyn1981

Living_proof wrote: »

There's an article in the Mail today about families prepping for Brexit and one, in Cornwall, have had solar panels installed in the belief that this would provide them with electricity in times of power cuts. I thought this not to be the case, but have never tested it out. I thought you needed power to change the ac/dc bit so could someone explain please?

Hiya, you don't need power from the grid, as the PV is generating power/energy, but for safety reasons the inverter will shutdown if it sees that the grid has lost power.

This prevents any export which could be dangerous to workers, and would also probably cause all sorts of issues given the size of a domestic PV install, v's the local grid it's connected too.

However, there are inverters that can work with, or without the grid, commonly known as 'Islanding'. In the case of a power cut these would not export any leccy but would still provide power to batts and a separate circuit.

Also, many (most?) domestic battery offerings will have a way of providing power in a power cut, such as a simple AC socket into which you could plug say, lights, or a phone charger, torch charger etc etc to help deal with the situation.

legoman62

0.7 O's here today...nearly at the bottom of the barrel:eek::mad:

JKenH

3.85kwh 0.49 Os. At least the daily target was surpassed.

Oscargrouch

Living_proof wrote: »

There's an article in the Mail today about families prepping for Brexit and one, in Cornwall, have had solar panels installed in the belief that this would provide them with electricity in times of power cuts. I thought this not to be the case, but have never tested it out. I thought you needed power to change the ac/dc bit so could someone explain please?

Luckily, there is no Border on Power Lines that the EU can attempt to control. Project Fear continues, but the financial gain will prevail in respect of Power Supplies. 0.68 O's here and today:D..