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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • Laycity
    Laycity Posts: 1,893 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Grey day as well - 0.86 O’s
    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 rate 

  • QrizB
    QrizB Posts: 18,461 Forumite
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    Very moist here today, started misty then turned to rain without any sight of the sun.
    0.63kWh, 0.23 O's :(
    The forecast, however, looks good for as far as it goes :smiley:
    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!
  • It has been the best day today since I took an interest and started monitoring my system. 8.7kWh for 4.34Os. 

    Previously my best was the 8th Mar with almost no cloud. 

    Today I replaced my Sunnyboy with a Glowatt and this has yielded some interesting results. Despite the day having intermittent clouds and despite the system only running from 09:37 the yield has been better - the inverter is more efficient and I believe is not constraining in peak conditions - I saw my highest peak ever - 2.0kW (measured on Geo monitor) vs previous peak of 1.7kW. I was quite surprised to see that value (albeit briefly) from 11 year old panels.



    This draws a line under my optimisations - which have included adding Tigo optimisers, removing panels from roof and cleaning and then replacing in a more optimal layout, and now adding the more modern inverter. Looking forward to the weekend - I think I'll be good for a 5-O. The optimisations were triggered by a neighbour removing a shading Silverbirch.

    Central Beds, 2.02kWp (9 x 225W) south facing with some morning shade, installed 2011 (£7.16/Wp). Tigo monitoring/optimisers on all panels, Growatt MIC 2000 TL-X Inverter and Solar iBoost installed 2022. (4 x 415W + 6 x 405W garden experiment connected to SunSynk 3.6 hybrid inverter & 2 x 5.3kWh SynSynk batteries) (4 x 405W panels queued to go somewhere)
  • Spies
    Spies Posts: 2,267 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    A lowly 0.89 today, need to make haste to get back on track, currently only 81% of target
    4.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria. 
  • ispookie666
    ispookie666 Posts: 1,194 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    5.2 and 3 O's 
    First hawaii of the year.  Exported 15KW, joys of not being home  :/
    “Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." - Desmond Tutu

    System 1 - 14 x 250W SunModule SW + Enphase ME215 microinverters (July 2015)
    System 2 - 9.2 KWp + Enphase IQ7+ and IQ8AC (Feb 22 & Sep 24) + Givenergy AC Coupled inverter + 2 * 8.2KWh Battery (May 2022) + Mitsubishi 7.1 KW and 2* Daikin 2.5 KW A2A Heat Pump
  • Magnitio
    Magnitio Posts: 1,213 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Name Dropper
    4.5 O's. Great morning, mixed afternoon.
    6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.
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