Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

shafeeq

7.957 today, alot better then yesterday.

Martyn1981

Not been doing so bad in Cardiff, got 11 for the third day running (target for June is 13 per day). I do however benefit slightly from bad weather by having an ESE system, since the better weather gives me less and less generation from 3pm onwards when I'm relying on reflection (or is it refraction?), so cloudy weather gives me better numbers, as long as it's not too cloudy.

Hopefully the weather will improve from next Monday, but doubt it can make up for the losses!

Mart.

EricMears

White fluffy clouds with several sunny intervals though still only a 2kW peak.

But long day (generation from 05:10 till 20:40) gave daily total of 11.56 kWh.

EricMears

Martyn1981 wrote: »

Hopefully the weather will improve from next Monday, but doubt it can make up for the losses!

Mart.

You don't really have 'losses' - just not quite such big gains as you might have hoped.

Martyn1981

EricMears wrote: »

You don't really have 'losses' - just not quite such big gains as you might have hoped.

You say 'potato', I say, 'where's my damned FITs money?'

Mart.

EricMears

Martyn1981 wrote: »

You say 'potato', I say, 'where's my damned FITs money?'

Mart.

Try applying my 'test'

"If I hadn't bought the SPs, what would I be earning (or not spending)"

In my case, it's lost interest on £12k which would is currently 3.1%pa or £31 per month.

Only when there's so little sunshine that I don't earn that can I be said to be 'losing' - and that didn't even happen in December ! If (say) someone borrowed the installation fee on a loan at 10% p.a. they might come closer to 'losing' occasionally - but no great danger of that on the pre 2012 installation rates.

RoxyK

Martyn1981 wrote: »

That's pretty impressive Oscar, I wasn't expecting numbers that high.

Similar chat here, when I was taking the mick out of RoxyK



Roxy was over by a similar amount to you, but on a bigger system.

Maybe it is over-reading a bit, but you will see some strange numbers at times when the panels get to cool down a bit (this only only takes a few minutes when a cloud passes over).

Did you manage to put the kettle on in time to use it?

Mart.

Ooh I thought my ears were burning

Interesting that my inverter under reads compared to Oscar's over reading one. Finally logged on with my first quarters reading of 1,220 from the generation meter. Unfortunately I have to send DH into the loft to get my inverter online again as I had to switch routers yesterday so I guess the connection needs to be reset.

I'll post what my inverter says when I manage to log in!

shafeeq

Todays figures 3,483 kw

My first week over and generated 41kw. Oh well things can only go up from here...... I hope

Oscargrouch

shafeeq wrote: »

Oh well things can only go up from here...... I hope

As some would say 'Don't count yer chickens, afore they hatch':rotfl: I only did 10kWh today, managed last night to deflect the street lights on to the SP's:j

mpn226

From the sunny highlands 13.4Kw from 2.35 system amd 21.7 Kw from 3.75 system