Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Magnitio · 1 June 2022 at 10:21AM

4.15 O's for yesterday. May was 101% of PVGIS.

Totals for May:

Generated 813.6 kWh

Imported 3.44 kWh

Consumed 301.11 kWh

Exported 474.96 kWh

Gas 29.4kWh

First month with no battery charging from grid, so import was just to cover the very rare usage over 5.5kW and inverter reaction to changing load/generation.

Exiled_Tyke · 1 June 2022 at 11:38AM

Martyn1981 said:

I've created a monster! Popped to my sister's house/small holding on the weekend and was chatting about PV. They had a system fitted in the Autumn last year. I explained the story of the 'Oscars', and the nicknames. And how I'd got a Maiden, which some years doesn't happen, because of the cold north wind we're getting.

Got home and she texted me that on 28/5 they'd got a Heaven with 74.7kWh (7.25 O's).

Told her I didn't want to play anymore.

Which got me wondering. When exactly was the Oscar 'invented'? So I ploughed through the thread and discovered that Oscargrouch proposed the measure and Martyn proposed the name 'Oscar' on the 5th March 2013. So I am now going to propose (if it hasn't been done before) that 5th March becomes a national holiday for all PVers in honour of Oscargrouch, the inventor of the unit of measure, the Oscar.

Merlin139 · 1 June 2022 at 5:37PM

A train wreck yesterday! Rain and rather a large amount between 11 and 2. At least the panels look very clean!

2.61 O's

Total for May:

Generated 507.3 kWh

Diverted 151.66 kWh (i-Boost)

Imported 95.1 kWh

Exported No Idea as I cannot measure it!

In terms of how good may was 108.8 % of PVGIS

Ranks 6 out of 8 for Full months of May.

Total for first 5 months of the year. 484.7 O's and only 5 behind the best. Worst start. 2018 with 404.3 O's

Coastalwatch · 1 June 2022 at 7:02PM

2.62 O's for last day of May with the month return being but 90% of pvgis and the least since installation in 2018. Thankfully being May it was more than sufficient to cover our domestic needs.

PV Output 1072 kWh's of which 77.5% consumed

Export 241 kWh's Import 52 kWh's

DHW 124 kWh's, ashp's 44 kWh's

EV's Grid 21.05, Solar 191 kWh's

Wind returned but 0.41 O for the day and totalled just 50% of annual monthly average. Perhaps not a great surprise as the summer months tend to have lower wind speeds. Equally the months return of £25.02 is likely to surpass the leccy bill for the month.

Edit. Disclaimer:- No FF's were knowingly harmed in the compilation of the above figures.

QrizB · 1 June 2022 at 9:06PM

June's off to a reasonable start; it was cloudy at times but cleared up this evening. Currently the dying sun is shining on the *north* side of my house, which only happens for a few weeks either side of Midsummer!

12.86kWh, 4.72 O's

June has the highest PVGIS forecast of the year, working out at 3.84 O's per day.

Today is also the first day my 5.2kWh homebrew battery has been in commission. So far, so good ...