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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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Third best day of the month for me (yes I know it;s only the 10th).4.84kWh, 1.78 O'sN. 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!5 -
Poor for me yesterday by the look of it - 0.68 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 rate3 -
Out of interest, I had a look at the effect the solaredge optimisers are having with my system over the last week.
The shading is fairly minimal. The main reason I got the optimisers was in case the neighbor's did a hip to gable extension at some point.
Assuming that the output of the string would have been governed by the output of the lowest power panel if I didn't have optimisers. The optimisers have increased output by between 10 and 20%. With more on sunny days and the panels higher in the roof, generally performing better. This is mainly from differences as the sun rises/sets and the panels come in/out of shade of the surrounding roof lines. I would expect their effect will be much lesser in the summer when for most of the day the sun is higher in the sky.
Probably only marginally interesting, but there you go!
6.7kW split Solaredge PV system (2.4kW SE, 4.3kW SW). Installed Nov 2021. Located in Southampton.4 -
Back to rubbish!
0.24 O's3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds6 -
Merlin139 said:Back to rubbish!
0.24 O'sScott 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 -
legoman62 said:Merlin139 said:Back to rubbish!
0.24 O's0.32 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).6 -
0.17 O’s for me 😩Solar 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 rate2 -
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Rain pretty much all day.4.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria.2 -
Oscargrouch said:I'd double it and add some, if only I could................ 0.6 O's.Scores for November:-Generation 389 kWh's of which 318 consumed 81.7%, 71 exported.Import 590.7, total consumption 908.Ashp's 188 kWh's, hours 408, ave 0.46 kW/h.EV grid 57 Solar 82. miles 437, 3.14 m/kWh.Gas - zeroWood - zeroOil - 100ml (Sunflower - cooking)!
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
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