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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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Bright here for a reasonable part of the day.2.98kWh, 1.10 O'sMerlin139 said:Cannot believe it was the worst day of the month!
Spies said:
As others have said, one of the registers on your smart meter will be for export. Depending on your meter it will be more or less obvious which one it is. Mine look something like this:
How do you track export? I know my smart meter will but I'd have to wait for a bill from Octopus to see the credits, I can only estimate my export with my CT clamp which gets confused as to which direction electricity is flowing!
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 34 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.6 -
A bit under par for Dec, 0.66666 O's. Ave around 0.75 apparently!
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.6 -
Don't know what to say, apart from 0.48 O's today...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:
Definition of 'O's = kWh/kWp (kWh = your daily & accurate Generation figure) (kWp = the rated output of your PV Panels).6 -
A record 2.5 O's today!
6.7kW split Solaredge PV system (2.4kW SE, 4.3kW SW). Installed Nov 2021. Located in Southampton.4 -
It looked so promising this morning and then it clouded over
1.16 O's4.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria.5 -
0.71 O's here today.Scott in Fife, 2.9kwp pv SSW facing, 2.7kw Fronius inverter installed Jan 2012 - 14.3kwh Seplos Mason battery storage with Lux ac controller - Renault Zoe 40kwh, Corsa-e 50kwh, Zappi EV charger and Octopus Go6
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1.98 O's today, even managed to get a few in the in the EV before going out and of course a full tank of DHW.
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.6 -
Best day of the month!
2.39 O's
Not bad as I was driving through a blizzard from the house to Bridlington at 07.40 this morning. Cracking day at home but very on and off 12 miles away in Brid.3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds6 -
2nd day - 1.19 O's2 Separate arrays, 7 x JASolar 380w panels (2.66kWp) south facing, 4 x JASolar 380w panels (1.52kWp) east facing, 11 x Tigo optimizers & cloud, Growatt SPH5000, Growatt 6.5kWh Hybrid battery (Go-live 01/12/21) - Additional reporting via Solar Assistant.5
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