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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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Today was a measly <0.1 O's (Southampton). At least it answered my question of "what is the lowest daily generation I can achieve?"
The other positive thing was that it was blowing a gale and all the panels and the roof are still where they should be.
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Well storm Barra brought us gales, snow, rain and practically no pv !
Our inverter only fired up for an hour this afternoon producing the sum total of 0.005 O's.
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 -
Stunning! I never knew such darkness existed.EVandPV said:Well storm Barra brought us gales, snow, rain and practically no pv !
Our inverter only fired up for an hour this afternoon producing the sum total of 0.005 O's.2 -
Oh, it can get worse. Some days in the winter, our inverter doesn't get going at all.2nd_time_buyer said:
Stunning! I never knew such darkness existed.EVandPV said:Well storm Barra brought us gales, snow, rain and practically no pv !
Our inverter only fired up for an hour this afternoon producing the sum total of 0.005 O's.
I'm only surprised today wasn't one of those days once the storm got going but it blew over as quick as it came and the day ended a little brighter.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 Go5 -
Ah, my 0.2 O doesn't sound quite so bad then!
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 -
Grim down south, 0.048 O's.2 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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Awful day, 0.15 O’sSolar install Aug 2021, Lancashire
4.74kW array, 4.6kW Solis inverter. SSW roof. 21° pitch. No shading. Pigeon Proofed.
12 x 395W Jinko Tiger panels
Powerwall install Nov 21
Octopus Go Faster tariff - 3 hours @ 4.5p/kW 20:30-23:30 and 15.78p/kW peak rate4 -
Greater grim here in East Midlands 0.12 O's
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).7 -
Grim all around, it seems.0.17kWh, 0.063 O's
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill member.
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 34 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.Not exactly back from my break, but dipping in and out of the forum.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!7
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