Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

k66

Oscargrouch wrote: »

And, if you set it on a low setting it would not work unless you were genarating sufficient power in order to use it... Are you getting energy wise? :rotfl:

He would divorce me if I stopped him playing with his power hungry toys.

zeupater

Hi All

Early into March and we're seeing 16kWh+ already (chalk one of those up for here too ) ... guess that's just an omen for a week of grey skies ahead ....

Z

EricMears

legoman62 wrote: »

Think my area weather forecasters are improving.

Probably not ! :mad: If you write half a dozen typically vague forecasts on bits of paper, drop them in a hat and pull out one when the fancy takes you there's a reasonable chance it will be correct occasionally Do weather forecasters consistently do better than that ?

We did very well yesterday (16.15kWh); not so well Friday (just over 4) & pretty well Thursday (14.7). Can't say that any forecast accurately predicted that.

For today, BBC & Met Office are both saying cloudy all day. Metcheck are saying some sunny intervals. We're currently having a sunny interval which has lasted about an hour so far but no idea how much longer it will last (no doubt turning on washing machine would bring it to an abrupt end !).

WestonDave

Trouble is at this time of year high pressure is a bit of an unpredictable animal - you might get a nice clear day of sun or you might get a day of gloomy mirk (anti cyclonic gloom). Many of the computer modelling systems rely heavily on a "high pressure = clear sun" model which doesn't always follow. At the moment for us Met Office is correctly saying gloom, Met Check and Netweather are both saying sun, Accuweather is saying partly cloudy. Mark 1 double glazed window says solid cloud, and my guess is it won't warm up enough to burn the cloud off.

EricMears

WestonDave wrote: »

Trouble is at this time of year high pressure is a bit of an unpredictable animal

No quarrel with that. Indeed it's pretty unpredictable most of the time.

My 'complaint' is that we're paying (one way or another) people to give us their guesses of what the weather might do but they never actually admit the high degree of uncertainty in their predictions.

Stop Press: 7.46 kWh today i.e. quite a lot of sunny intervals. Half a thanks to Metcheck ; 'could do better' for BBC & Met Office :mad:

shafeeq

3.87 kwh today. cloudy today

Oscargrouch

shafeeq wrote: »

3.87 kwh today. cloudy today

Shame, 2kWp (5kWh) for me; you must try harder....

John_Pierpoint

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

As you can see it dawned foggy again today BUT the dun has broken through by 10:30 [The weather forecast says it won't last but at least we are generating > 1 kW now.

Here is a bit more information about the Arabs importing Chinese cranes into triple dip UK. (Brunel must be spinning in his grave).

http://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2013-03-01/a-new-gateway-to-london/


3.6 kWp inverter North side of Thames estuary facing SE on 30 degree roof that cannot see the monster cranes.:

kWh
01.23 25/02 Monday
00.93 26/02 Tuesday
04.94 27/02 Wednesday
04.47 28/02 Thursday
03.25 01/03 Friday
04.58 02/03 Saturday
06.15 03/03 Sunday

Last year there was a feeling of resignation about the ending of the "gold rush" to instal PV panels.

Tuesday is the start of the three day "free" jolly in East London Docklands:
http://www.ecobuild.co.uk/uploads/eb-2013-floor-plan-28-02-13.pdf

Anyone else going along?
Anything likely to be this year's taking point, like "Solar Edge" last year?

I will report back on anything unexpected - like a budget leak - that comes to light.

Anyone know someone who thinks "The Green Deal" will really take off?

"You are already in debt so do your bit and have some more".

Oscargrouch

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Here is a bit more information about the Arabs importing Chinese cranes into triple dip UK. (Brunel must be spinning in his grave).

http://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2013-03-01/a-new-gateway-to-london/

"You are already in debt so do your bit and have some more".

What do you expect from the current Condemnation Gov. "You are already in debt so do your bit and have some more". Make my mates; the Bankers, have an even bigger BONUS . "It was the last Gov. fault, honest me Lord"! :rotfl: Good post though John..:mad:

KevinG

A bit late, but February brought a pathetic 77.63 kWh, 11% below SAF PVGIS and 25% down on 2012. The start of March has also been very poor so far, with Saturday's 2.19 kWh being the highest. Sun forecast for Monday or Tuesday, depending on whose forecast you use.