Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

ggmf

Just to make you all feel better, 1.113 & 0.612 O's, worse than a winters day. It's not all conferences, holidaymakers, hen/stag parties, sea and sun down here. Just about holding PVGIS this month so far.

Netexporter

Ironically I'm wishing for fewer sunny and more interval, today, as the Agile prices are negative, so any solar is "costing" me 15p plus the negative price, which is a total of about 24p in the 15:00 to 15:30 slot. I suppose I should turn the solar off until 16:00.

John_Pierpoint

QrizB said:

John_Pierpoint said:

OK the money is pretty trivial, it won’t even pay for the cheapest draft pint in the “Spoons” BUT who is accusing me of fraud or is it false accounting?

I don't think anyone has accused you of anything, unless you've had comms from BG that you haven't mentioned.

John_Pierpoint said:

Does anyone else have this problem?

I can't speak for BGs FIT process but EON Next (and nPower before them) ask for readings four times a year, during the months of March, June, September and December, not later than the 25th of the month. This means that they have to estimate the readings for 1st of April, and (in my experience, when I've checked) they always estimate this as a higher reading than it really is.

That's not particularly relevant to your problem, of course. I'm sure BG have a complaints process; you should follow it.

QrizB, thanks for your reply.
“et tu Brute” or in American-English welcome to the “me too” club.

Your accounting situation is even worse than mine. It would appear that your contract with former government departments is based on quarter day accounting; 25 th of March being Lady Day, the day that the Virgin Mary conceived and a new (then) fiscal year began.
This April, thanks to Boris and Liz deficit financing of COVID’s cut in real income, the nation awarded a high inflation correction to the FiT rates, so the post-dating / pre-dating exercise probably increases the profit to the shareholders by £££££££££.

I am a retired systems analyst, trained by an American company. I was expected to get accounting accurate, right down to the pence rounding account. [statisticians and accountants do it differently].

 I expect we have both agreed to some sort of contract that says “We are always right, you are always wrong”; my reference to fraud / false accounting was the situation at the Post Office (not Royal Mail) where their suppliers of transactions were always wrong.

I think next year, I will take a photograph, with a date and time stamp of a minute past midnight.

Merlin139

Cloud and Rain. A few burst of Sun.

2.74 O's

Merlin139

A far better day than predicted. Clouds around most of the day with the wind keeping it cool to increase production.

Maiden + 0.09 O's

Passed PVGIS for the month today.

QrizB

More cloud than sky to begin but but brightened up as the day went on. Still generating a trickle but it's not going to change the outcome significantly.

16.7kWh, 6.14 Os

Car charged, water tank hot and Fogstar topped off. Might've got close to a Heaven if the skies had been clear!

Netexporter

7kWh 1.64 Os but the solar was off for about 7 hours whilst I feasted on paid-to-use leccy on Agile.

SuzeQStan

4.96 O’s - soaked 3rd day in a row in decidedly unsunny/windy/ torrential Blackpool

edit - thanks gawd holiday finished tomorrow ☔️💧🌧️🌂🌈

pete-20-11

4.88 Os, some rain early on. 

legoman62

Better than was forecast. Hawaii + 0.225 O’s today.