Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Martyn1981

sly_dog_jonah wrote: »

You're time will come Martin, especially as the days get longer and your NW system delivers the late in the day generation.

Funny you should say that, today was a good day but not excellent, but the WNW generated 2.3, it's previous high this year, 5 days ago was 1.6, so it's really started to 'see' the sun again. First year with such a summer specialist, and looks like it misses the sun for approx 6 weeks either side of shortest day. Average during those 2*6 weeks was about 0.8kWh/day.

My ESE (6 today) has a 7:1 ratio of June to December, but the WNW is 11:1. I'd guess your 'steeper' is around 4:1?

Edit: Congrats on the 4MWh.

legoman62 wrote: »

Spot on there Mart...my 28° roof pitch is keeping my daily output way, way down on SDJ's

Hiya Legoman, similar pitches here, WNW 30deg, and ESE 27deg (or in truth 2/3 @ 30deg and 1/3 @ 20deg). One nice thing today is that generation touched 5pm, only just, but that's important to me, as 5pm GMT is 6pm BST so it's well on it's way to supplying a bit towards the 6pm cooking. On a good day it should provide about 1kW right up to 6pm minimum for the 6 BST months.

I do enjoy my little PV systems! :T

Mart.

Oscargrouch

EricMears wrote: »

I'm sure that means 4MWh in 3 years (or whatever) rather than doing it all yesterday - but in case not, do please share your secret

I am up to 2.6735 Mwh in 15 months....I think.. 2,673.5 kWh ? numbers are too high to comprehend..:rotfl:
2.3 kWh today, no snow, no Mwh today...

shafeeq

Oscargrouch wrote: »

2.3 kWh today, no snow, no Mwh today...

You think you done well...... well think again :j


and again..

Actually you have compare to me:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

2.00kwh......

EricMears

EricMears wrote: »

Today looks even brighter and sunnier than was yesterday :j:j

At least, for most of the time, in between it keeps snowing. And (you've guessed it !) my shallow panels have a thin layer of snow so are pumping out a magnificent 0.000W :mad:

Can but hope some of the covering melts in the sun, but not really confident it will.

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Managed to peak at 140W around Noon and have generated a total of 291Wh today.

Only glimmer of hope is that some of the weather forecasts are promising me some overnight rain and a bright start tomorrow - but (as I may have casually mentioned before) they usually get it wrong.

Weather today wasn't all that special. BUT all the snow had melted overnight and a bright start to the day (contrary to forecast) meant we were producing 1.5kW by 10am. Peaked at 1.9kW just before noon but cloud thickened after that (again contrary to forecast - why do I bother looking !) so day's total was only 4.1 kWh (or 14 times as much as yeterday).:D

EricMears

sly_dog_jonah wrote: »

4MWh in less than 16months actually! That's our total generation since 21st Oct 2011.

We've managed 4604 kWh since 16/08/2011

or

3885kWh since 21/10/2011

But of course we're up here in the frozen North with a roof that's too shallow even on Summer Solstice day and nearly a week of this year with panels hidden under the snow.

edwink

We generated 2.13Kwh today in the Hertfordshire rainforest.

Generation is getting better now the sun is higher now.

Edwink :j

sly_dog_jonah

Martyn1981 wrote: »

My ESE (6 today) has a 7:1 ratio of June to December, but the WNW is 11:1. I'd guess your 'steeper' is around 4:1?

PVGIS-Classic estimate for June & Dec respectively is 417kWh and 82.3kWh, so a ratio of a tad over 5:1.

6.8kWh today (or rather yesterday). No Solar PV at this time of night so time to hit the sack (and hibernate the lappy)!

Oscargrouch

2.3 kWh today, beat that if you can Shafeeq..

edwink

We generated 2.94 Kwh in the rainforest!!!

Generation going up and up at long last!!!;)

Edwink x

InVestor_2

5.9 kWh yesterday, 11.6 kWh today. Still ahead of climate estimate for the month.

Managed 1 full dishwash, 3 wash loads, halogen heater heating through the house for most of the day and even the immersion on for a bit. Got to minimize exporting my free leccy