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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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No Hawaii, but a good 4.625 O's here 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.6
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Steady 4.2 O’s here 😀5
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No Hawai'i here either, but we got close!13.45kWh, 4.94 O'sN. 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 -
Sorry, have not posted for a couple of days; still alive.
PC crashed, lost MS Office incl. Excel data with PV results trying to restore; may take a couple of weeks
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 -
Oscargrouch said:Sorry, have not posted for a couple of days; still alive.
PC crashed, lost MS Office incl. Excel data with PV results trying to restore; may take a couple of weeks
Hope you get it all back safely.3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds5 -
Solid Hawaii yesterday - 5.75 O's.
Finally received a statement from SSE suggesting I might get paid for the previous 6 months of FIT generation.
Decent enough forecast for 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)7 -
Scraped an Hawaii yesterday 5.02 and strangely zero showing for wind!Edit. Website updated to show yesterdays total at 0.57 O's together with it's actual monetary value as a return at 91.9p which equates to 9.633p/kWh.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.5
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Chart shows 22.22 kWh for today. 5.59 O's
Must have been warm here as low peak rate of 2.723 kW and very up and down for most of the day.
Been down to Godstone in Surrey and back so have missed all of it. Seen lots of sun on my travels.3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds5 -
Average morning but excellent afternoon - 5.66 O's.
6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.4 -
Nice Hawaii here as well with 5.04 O’s4
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