Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

1961Nick

3.73 O's for the day.

118.75 O's for the month

Exceeded April PVGIS by 25.6%

JKenH

3.28 Os today.

Monthly stats

Generation 738.13 kWh
94.6 Os
103.5% of PVGIS

YTD
Generation 1628.88 kWh
208.8 Os
102.5% of PVGIS

legoman62

4.9 O's here today. April total 459.2 kWh:T
Previous April totals
2012 346 kWh
2013 483 kWh:D
2014 373.2 kWh
2015 477 kWh
2016 381.8 kWh
2017 390.4 kWh
2018 311.4 kWh:mad:

Oscargrouch

A Nice little a/an Hawaii today + 00.4 O's..:beer::beer:..

Merlin139

A nice afternoon after a foggy morning.

3.8 O's

My 2nd best April with 124.3 O's

122.1 % of Estimate.

Year since 01/05/2018 = 4534 kWh's

Coastalwatch

After a cloudy morning recovered to 3.53 O's for today taking generation for the month to 102.6% of pvgis v5. That's eleven months out of twelve above forecast. Lucky indeed.

Martyn1981

Nice April gen with 545.7kWh, 105% and 97.8 O's. Second best April, (608kWh 2015).

Import was 105kWh, total household consumption 262kWh and export 388kWh.

Consumption not too bad considering how cold some of April was, so ASHP running all day (8am to 7pm) for the first week or two, and almost no GCH, as reflected in gas consumption of 13 units (~143kWh).

1961Nick

Generated: 475 kWh (PVGIS 378 kWh)
Total consumption: 504 kWh
Direct solar use: 187 kWh
Battery discharge: 212 kWh
Export: 47 kWh
Import: 102 kWh
Round trip loss: 29 kWh (12%)

(Of the 29 kWh round trip loss, approximately 13 kWh would have been exported.)

Zarch

Finished April at 99% of PVGIS.... just 6kWh shy, ah well!

Used only 33% of what I generated... the last three months used have been 33%, 36% and 40% in that regard..... I can see this only dropping further as we get in to summer.

So as this means i'm exporting 67%, 64% and 60% i'm really considering moving away from deemed 50% and onto actual export.

We have a Combi and have no plans or physical space (in next ten years) to retrofit install any sort of header tank/thermal store, so no Immersun/iBoost planned.

Maybe a EV, but that is probably not going to be for another 3 or 4 years when prices drop.

Bottom line, I have no equipment that can make best use of all this free solar energy!!

Moving to actual export isn't going to make me a rich man, but its likely going to yield a few more pennies that deemed 50%.

ASavvyBuyer

Achieved 104.6% of PVGIS estimate for April.

Managed to use 64.2% of generated, by use of Air Conditioner/Heat Pump, water heating and charging the EV, etc.

Gas consumption down by over 40% compared to before the heat pump install.

Average cost of all imported electric 7.54p/kWh (inc VAT) on Octopus Go tariff.