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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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New high for the year - 5.87 O's. Almost a maiden today - thwarted by a small amount of cloud in the afternoon. 5th 5-O for the month I believe.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)4
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Another best day of the year. 25.65 kWh
Maiden + 0.46 O's
Another 7 kWh diverted to i-Boost.
Sadly most of today's production went back to the Grid as I was riding my motorbike all over Yorkshire. Managed just over 300 miles. Practice for a 1000 miles ride in 24 hours in June.3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds8 -
Hawaii! +0.68That's 24.4kw generated and an almost perfect curve (just a single blip).That's put me on track of 92% of PVGIS.
Most of it exported at a pretty low rate unfortunately as I'm really struggling to use it up! Looking for used first gen leafs as that's all I could stretch to.4.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria.4 -
Merlin139 said:Another best day of the year. 25.65 kWh
Maiden + 0.46 O's
Another 7 kWh diverted to i-Boost.
Sadly most of today's production went back to the Grid as I was riding my motorbike all over Yorkshire. Managed just over 300 miles. Practice for a 1000 miles ride in 24 hours in June.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.6 -
Still no Hawaii for me in April….but I do have my first Maiden!!! 😀😀😀Best day since installation last year with 6.37 O’s 👊5
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Best day so far - 5.89 O's.
6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.3 -
Poor today compared to yesterday: only A/an
+ 0.52 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 -
5.9 Os yesterday. Just a smidge off 65.2kW (13 x Hyundai 400w), SSE, Central Bedfordshire. Panels installed Dec 2021. Hyundia e-Kona.6
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A near perfect day 5.87 O's for PV plus 0.89 O's for wind.At last on a par with pvgis for the month and contributing 65 kWh's on the day to the grid.Apart from what we consumed of course.Edit. For yesterday that is.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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Could someone post regular terminology explanations? A short glossary? Maiden, Hawaii...?
London. 6.4kwh system, South facing. 16 Hyundai 400kw all black panels w/ optimisers, 6kw Solaredge HD Wave inverter, Solar Iboost with two immersion heaters on one 240l hw tank. Octopus Flux. Ivar 5 Wood Burning Stove. Leaf 62kwh plus Zappi. Two chickens: 1 Light Sussex, 1 Speckled Rock. Omlet walk-in run. Approx 1.5 eggs per day egg generation rate using Marriage's organic layers pellets.1
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