Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

sly_dog_jonah

zeupater wrote: »

Hi
Apologies to whoever setup the MSE group on PVOutput, I can't remember who it was and no longer see any reference to it on this site .... also, we're generating 396W now and it's just started to rain!

Apology accepted, I'd almost forgotten about it too! I haven't uploaded data in over a year, I should probably get round to that sometime! The group is here:

http://pvoutput.org/listteam.jsp?tid=338

zeupater

Dave_Fowler wrote: »

The pvoutput.org site has a column marked 'efficiency' both on the weekly overview and the daily analysis. This is the same as the Os.

Hi Dave

Were you responsible for setting up the MSE team on the PVOutput site ? .....

I tend to check the PVOutput site out every now and then to see how our long-term performance compares to average, but mainly check the panel calibrated test data against our own PVGIS target flexed against Met Office anomalies for our own location - If there was a house next door with a similar system (spec & orientation) then I might directly compare short-term performance with that on a regular basis, but anything else involves too many variables to take seriously ...

HTH
Z

zeupater

sly_dog_jonah wrote: »

Apology accepted, I'd almost forgotten about it too! I haven't uploaded data in over a year, I should probably get round to that sometime! The group is here:

http://pvoutput.org/listteam.jsp?tid=338

Hi

Looks like you answered my question to Dave then ....

Z

zeupater

Dave_Fowler wrote: »

The pvoutput.org site has a column marked 'efficiency' both on the weekly overview and the daily analysis. This is the same as the Os.

.... and the beauty is that performance data is both available to be analysed and presented as being fully analysed over the short, medium and long-term .... much better than building your own spread-sheet and manually entering data from this thread, if that's what members want to do .... :D

Z

Martyn1981

So, yesterday got 27.3kWh's or 4.9 O's and today got 19.6kWh's or 3.51 O's.

Lots of silly numbers and predictions, just to confuse further:

Just a few kWh's under 0.5MWh for the month, so my first 1/2 Meg ever (in a month). Aug 2012 & Apr 2013 were both 491kWh's. On target for 630kWh's fingers crossed.

ESE system is currently predicting 2.5% over target, whilst WNW is predicting 10% over. So guess which end of the days have been a little better.

Current weather forecast for Sat & Sun is a solid sun (no cloud) every hour of daylight - so, that'll mean rain then!

Mart.

legoman62

2.84 O's for me yesterday
Hope to to reach 5MWh total output by end of May:D

csh_2

Hi, how do you go about measuring the output?! As in, where do you look....
I.'ve bought a house with solar panels but Don't really know much about them.
I have a meter of some sort next to the ordinary electric meter, what would this be? (The meter reader said it was the solar meter)

I've just had my first electricity bill for this house, 142 units in 7 weeks amounting to £13.35 (£6 day & £8 night) before vat and charges. I'd say we were heavy users of electricity washing machine, tumble dryer & dishwasher on every day. I paid around £65 a month in the last house.
I had read that electricity savings would only be around £200 a year so just looking to see how I go about measuring how much we are generating

Oscargrouch

csh wrote: »

Hi, how do you go about measuring the output?! As in, where do you look....
I.'ve bought a house with solar panels but Don't really know much about them.
I have a meter of some sort next to the ordinary electric meter, what would this be? (The meter reader said it was the solar meter)

I've just had my first electricity bill for this house, 142 units in 7 weeks amounting to £13.35 (£6 day & £8 night) before vat and charges. I'd say we were heavy users of electricity washing machine, tumble dryer & dishwasher on every day. I paid around £65 a month in the last house.
I had read that electricity savings would only be around £200 a year so just looking to see how I go about measuring how much we are generating

Could be a good one; first question is do you own the panels or were they installed on a 'rent a roof scheme' ? If you own them then you need to submit a reading every 1/4 to the Feed in Tarrif provider. Leave it with that first question for the time being.

2.68 O's yesterday.
7.16 O's today........:)

csh_2

Yeah I do own them, FIT account is still being transferred into our name at the moment so waiting to hear back from British Gas.
The last reading was submitted 6/4 by the girl who sold us the house. It was her Dads house but he died so she didn't have much info on the panels to pass along to us.

[Deleted User]

25kWh or 6.36 O's

Cheers

Edit, looks like another stunner today, pity i'm stuck the datacentre all day... again