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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • The sun wasn't forecast to come out until after lunch today so what a pleasant surprise when it was with us for breakfast. It stayed until mid afternoon when the mist and cloud rolled in but too late to stop the panels generating 3.05 O's taking us nicely beyond pvgis for the entire month! :)
    East coast, lat 51.97. 8.26kw SSE, 23° pitch + 0.59kw WSW vertical. Nissan Leaf plus Zappi charger and 2 x ASHP's. Givenergy 8.2 & 9.5 kWh batts, 2 x 3 kW ac inverters. Indra V2H . CoCharger Host, Interest in Ripple Energy & Abundance.
  • legoman62
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    2.425 O's here 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.
  • Oscargrouch
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    legoman62 wrote: »
    2.425 O's here today:D
    Nice little 3.72 O's here and today..:T Giving £129.48p. in payment just being claimed...:beer::beer: Account now, in 8yrs; Panels Paid for and being £1,844.22p in profit...:j:beer::beer:...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).
  • Zarch
    Zarch Posts: 393 Forumite
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    200% of PVGIS for today and 2.8 O....... a very nice day! :)
    17 x 300W panels (5.1kW) on a 3.68kW SolarEdge system in Sunny Sheffield.
    12kW Pylontech battery storage system with Lux AC controller
    Creator of the Energy Stats UK website and @energystatsuk Twitter Feed
  • 2.17 Os yesterday here and currently at 108% PVGIS for the month.

    If only I'd owned long enough ago to get FIT payments like that!
    On the flip side, I reckon they perhaps envy you on the scale of your layout.;)
    East coast, lat 51.97. 8.26kw SSE, 23° pitch + 0.59kw WSW vertical. Nissan Leaf plus Zappi charger and 2 x ASHP's. Givenergy 8.2 & 9.5 kWh batts, 2 x 3 kW ac inverters. Indra V2H . CoCharger Host, Interest in Ripple Energy & Abundance.
  • Had to wait a week, but another best day of the year. 1.39 O's today.
    And another, 1.68 O's for yesterday. Highest gen this early in Feb since installation. :j
  • legoman62
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    2.5 O's here today...best day this year:T
    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
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    And another, 1.68 O's for yesterday. Highest gen this early in Feb since installation. :j
    And another today here with 3.56 O's..:beer:...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).
  • KevinG
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    3.88 Os today, best since early October :)
    2kWp Solar PV - 10*200W Kioto, SMA Sunny Boy 2000HF, SSE facing, some shading in winter, 37° pitch, installed Jun-2011, inverter replaced Sep-2017 AND Feb-2022.
  • Best Feb day ever at 3.91 O's here.
    Oh for a cost effective priced storage battery.:D
    East coast, lat 51.97. 8.26kw SSE, 23° pitch + 0.59kw WSW vertical. Nissan Leaf plus Zappi charger and 2 x ASHP's. Givenergy 8.2 & 9.5 kWh batts, 2 x 3 kW ac inverters. Indra V2H . CoCharger Host, Interest in Ripple Energy & Abundance.
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