Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

legoman62

7.34kWh for me today

Best day for almost 3 months(2/11):D
Monthly total of 71kWh = 75% of Jan PVGIS
Jan 2012 I made almost 100kWh

Beginning to think my system had hibernated

Then I noticed the Sunny Beam reading 2.21kW just after lunch:rotfl:
Free hot water today too!

jackieblack

7kWh here today :j
Finished Jan 8kWh (almost 12%) over PVGIS target thanks to a handful of great days compensating for all the dreadful ones.

Far from being worst ever month - if judging purely by kWh generated that title belongs to Dec 2010 when we generated only 50kWh (104% of target), if judging by % of target then Feb 2011 was the worst when only 72% of PVGIS target was generated (71kWh)

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

Today marked the end of my first year of generation; 366 days since 2012 was a leap year.

PVGIS-classic...PVGIS-climate...Actual
3350kWh.........3500kWh.........3681kWh

4kWp system with SolarEdge SE4000 inverter, orientation 68° (approx WSW) in South Devon

My original plan last year had been to get an E.ON rent-a-roof system and buy them out after 2 or 3 years. After looking at my house on Google they refused even to quote, due to the non-southerly aspect. I decided to use part of my Cash ISA to pay for my own system and the rest is history. I got in before the FIT rate was drastically reduced so am really pleased.

EricMears

EricMears wrote: »

However, unless I generate 90 kWh tomorrow (and perhaps inverter will deign to use the 'k' if I do) I'll not get to PVGIS. More likely that I'll be reporting my worst ever month and something around 50% of PVGIS.

You won't be too surprised to learn that we didn't generate 90 kWh today You would of course have noticed if the Sun had turned into a supernova :eek:

It was quite a good day though : 6,447 Wh 70.2kWh for month.

Definitely my worst ever month both in absolute terms and as %PVGIS (approx 47%) but at least I avoided having to say money would have earnt more in an ISA.

Whoops !

I was reading across a spreadsheet and got the January target wrong !

Jan was still the worst ever month in real terms but that was about half the Feb target rather than Jan's. Jan was actually 22% below PVGIS NOT 53%.

shafeeq

4.10 kwh today.

58.70 for the month 66% of PVGIS.. oh well there is always tomorrow.

Martyn1981

Thanks everyone for cheering me up. Apart from Jackie Black - bit of a blinder there, wow.

Actually in fairness not too bad here, got 89% of PVGIS climate, which looks pretty good given some of the results just posted.

The ESE system generated 67, compared to 72 for 2012, so no great change in the scheme of things. Time to see what Feb can do.

@F&NC 1 down, 24 to go and well above target during a messy year. Tidy!

Mart.

Oscargrouch

edwink wrote: »

Hello Edwink here from the rainforest
:mad:

Edwink x

Problem you may have; leaves start coming out in 3 months which may hinder.. :rotfl:

shafeeq wrote: »

4.10 kwh today.

Feel really Sad for you..:)

KevinG wrote: »

Dreadful, dreadful, dreadful month, worst ever.

D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better (TOTP) 06-01-1994 -

Back to Anorak business:-

4.5 kWh today.

59.30 kWh for Jan 2013.
34.1 kWh short of last Jan 2012.
28 kWh less than Dec 2012.
22 days to make £47.06p to equal last years 1/4 for same period.
83.4% of PVGIS for this month.
72.3% PV power has been used in House.
16% of power consumed/used comes from PV.

Have I left anything out? Ahhh yes; Stella is great..

edwink

Hello Oscar

No the leaves on the trees will not hinder our generation much more now because the sun is now reaching the tops of the trees. The trees are about 300ft or so away and the sun has been hiding behind them all winter. Our summer generation was above average but the winter was lower so should level out over the year.

Trouble is neighbour has 2 huge trees 100ft up their garden which takes some of the sun from11am to 12.30pm. But, once the sun has moved behind them the sun is directly on to the panels this time of year. During the summer the sun is then much higher than their horrible non native trees in their garden.

So generation should pick up from around mid Feb onwards. Hopefully.

Edwink x

2001GT

98 KWh from my new system.
Installed on 3rd Jan 2013...16 Linuo 235w Panels, Fronius IGplus 35 Inverter on a SSE facing roof with no shading.
Just wish EON would hurry up with the FIT registration....

jackieblack

Martyn1981 wrote: »

Thanks everyone for cheering me up. Apart from Jackie Black - bit of a blinder there, wow.

We do seem to be very lucky with the weather here

Hoping for a few more good days before the next FIT quarter is up (12th Feb)