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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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Waited all Spring for a Maiden to appear then two together!☺️
East coast, lat 51.97. 8.26kw SSE, 23° pitch + 0.59kw WSW vertical. Nissan Leaf plus Zappi charger and 2 x ASHP's. Givenergy 8.2 & 9.5 kWh batts, 2 x 3 kW ac inverters. Indra V2H . CoCharger Host, Interest in Ripple Energy & Abundance.8 -
Very dull morning till around 11 am. No maiden here yesterday.
Hawaii + 0.76 O's
3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds6 -
Some cloud in the morning yesterday, so just missed out on a Maiden 5.94 O's
5.5kWp Solar PV System. South herts, SE facing 12 panels. 6kw inverter, 5 kwh Battery. Apr 2025 install6 -
The 23rd was my best day of the year so far. Likely to be one of my best days ever.
17.8kWh, 6.54 Os, a solid Maiden.
I rarely get to 17kWh and that's a higher daily total than I managed in any month of 2025!
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Kirk Hill Co-op member.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 35 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.6 -
Had another thought about your horns. Where is you inverter situated? If it is in the roof-space it may be getting too hot and throttling the output to stay within its safe temperature limits. Mine is in a reasonably cool garage but the top of it is too hot to touch when it is at maximum output.
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If it's a hybrid battery, could it also be clipping? (Just a guess).
E.g. once battery is full, clipped, heavy usage in the house, battery has capacity, generation increases and then tails off as the sun moves.
PPI success. Banding success. Double Dip PCN cancelled! South facing solar (Midlands) and battery. Savings Session supporter (is it worth it now!?)5 -
Inverter is in garage and it is south facing so it does take a bit of hammer when it’s hot. I’ve got a thick piece of old carpet I’m gonng to hang behind the garage door to hopefully help mitigate. It does have a party wall with the house which I think helps in winter
Lancashire
PV 5.04kWp SW facing
Solar Battery 6.5 kWh
🐙 Intelligent Go
Mortgage freedom January 2024 - paid off 7 years early by making overpayments where we could.4 -
I’ve been trying to find out if it is hybrid - this is ours
Lancashire
PV 5.04kWp SW facing
Solar Battery 6.5 kWh
🐙 Intelligent Go
Mortgage freedom January 2024 - paid off 7 years early by making overpayments where we could.0 -
6.08 Os for me today.
(No idea re the above, guess would need to know the inverter details to know if it's hybrid or not).
PPI success. Banding success. Double Dip PCN cancelled! South facing solar (Midlands) and battery. Savings Session supporter (is it worth it now!?)7 -
Another maiden 6.52 Os another 100 Wh, can it keep it up ?
4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
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