Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

legoman62

Heavy rain and thunderstorms til mid afternoon, then some sunshine.
2.125 today👏

Alnat1

When the sun did make a few brief appearances between the torrential downpours and the hailstorms it was very bright 2.17 O's

Merlin139

Poor day with rain and clouds.

1.73 O's

Grandad2b

9kWh and just 2.03 O's

After 10 days at 38% of PVGIS

Magnitio

4.78 O's for Sunday and 2.3 for yesterday. Not a cloud in the sky this morning, but apparently that won't last long

Bill73

Forgive my ignorance - I'm a wind man - but what is the definition of "O's" ?

Grandad2b

It's given up for today: 19.9kWh and 4.48 O's

Grandad2b

Bill73 said:

Forgive my ignorance - I'm a wind man - but what is the definition of "O's" ?

A measure of the number of full output hours produced by the panels. My system is 4.44kWp but limited by the inverter to 3.6kW so on a bright day I don't do so well. On moderately bright days I do Ok

Merlin139

Bill73 said:

Forgive my ignorance - I'm a wind man - but what is the definition of "O's" ?

Definition of 'O's = kWh/kWp (kWh = your daily & accurate Generation figure) (kWp = the rated output of your PV Panels).

Taken from Oscargrough's Signature.

The idea being a way to compare production levels. Although it does not take into account the Latitude that the panels sit on. An example being if I moved my house 300 miles south to the coast on the same Longitude PVGIS for my system would be 750 kWh per year higher.

Alnat1

Decent morning, very wet afternoon 2.42 O's