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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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Best day of the month. Very up and down day similar to yesterday but not as bad. Only 1 bit of light snow.
Another Hawaii + 0.16 O's
9.56 kWh diverted to iBoost.
3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds7 -
April has started better than expected! Seriously, the Met Office were forecasting a bit of broken sun at 8am then cloud all day. However, it turned out different ...12.11kWh, 4.45 O's - a solid Wink!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.7 -
Best day this year. 4.375 O's today👏16 Sanyo Hit 250s.4kWp SMA 3.8kWp inverter. SW roof. 28° pitch. Minimal shade. Nov 2011 install. Hybrid car. Ripple Kirk Hill. N.E Lincs Coast.5
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3..65 O’s today , decent start to April 😀3
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Bestest day this Month 4.36 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).5 -
A very unexpected 4.8 O's yesterday. Clouds causing multiple spikes of 6+kw which battery and inverter seem to consume without issue.
6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.4 -
A 'can't be sniffed at' wink yesterday - 4.32 O's, and 3.90 O's on the 31st.
I'm heading for being well up on last years quarter.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)3 -
What a weird day yesterday was. Some people had snow, we had ice in the morning, surprisingly cold. But able to pop the small heat pump on by 7.30 (all PV). Then Wifey switched it off about 5.30 as we were only generating about 200W. Fair enough. Then I looked at the generation displays and they were 80W ESE and 120W WNW ....... NO ... 1.20kW WNW, didn't expect that, and stayed high enough to leave the HP on till 6.30.
1st of April delivered our first Wink of the year with 4.05 O's.Mart. Cardiff. 8.72 kWp PV systems (2.12 SSW 4.6 ESE & 2.0 WNW). 28kWh battery storage. Two A2A units for cleaner heating. Two BEV's for cleaner driving.
For general PV advice please see the PV FAQ thread on the Green & Ethical Board.7 -
Oops forgot March results.
Seemed like a warm March, low heating.
Good month with 106% of target. Negligible spread, with 107% for the ESE and 106% for the WNW.
Generated 387.5kWh (69.44 O's).
Imported 542kWh.
Exported 219kWh.
Consumed 711kWh.
Gas was ~506kWh. Low start to the year, Q1 consumption approx 2,134kWh.
Really bad leccy month, with high import and export. Lots of BEV driving by Wifey due to family illness so home charging on E7 night rate, hardly any opportunities to charge on PV. Lots of heatpump use though, largely PV, which knocked down gas consumption.
Looks like annual leccy consumption will be around 5,800kWh, up from ~3,000kWh prior to BEV's and small heatpumps.
Mart. Cardiff. 8.72 kWp PV systems (2.12 SSW 4.6 ESE & 2.0 WNW). 28kWh battery storage. Two A2A units for cleaner heating. Two BEV's for cleaner driving.
For general PV advice please see the PV FAQ thread on the Green & Ethical Board.7 -
Second wink of April (4.26 O's), and fitted my iBoost Solar today too.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)3
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