Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

EricMears

legoman62 wrote: »

Wish these weather forecasters would stop telling us the long warm spell will continue...tempting fate I reckon

When you're in the middle of a high pressure system giving sunny spells there are really only three things that can happen :-

1. It continues
2. We get a few thunderstorms
3. Pressure drops and it gets cloudier.

It's always easiest to say "tomorrow will be a bit like today" and that's usually a better guess than suggesting something wildly different.

The sunny spell will stop eventually and it's an odds on bet that it will either stop a day or two before the forecasters expect it to or carry on a bit longer than they expected

Sirlaughalot

Has anyone heard of PV magazine and how can you get hold of it?

SL

Martyn1981

Sirlaughalot wrote: »

Has anyone heard of PV magazine and how can you get hold of it?

SL

Hiya SL. I'm starting to feel like I'm stalking you! I think you are just doing what I did 2 years ago, and having a really good nose around, hence we keep crossing.

Anyways, every few days I just slap 'PV news' into google, create 3 duplicates, then select;

PV-Tech
Solarpowerportal
pv-magazine and
solardaily

and have a good read.

Here's pv-magazine

http://www.pv-magazine.com/#axzz2ZCQfOdeL

I just read them for free on-line.

Mart.

sly_dog_jonah

Just had a visit from our FiT supplier to take an 'annual reading' of our FiT meter. Not that we'd ever had one before in 21 months.

Was good timing as we just passed 6MWh today. He said everyone is reporting better performance this year than last, but made no comment as to whether ours was 'unexpectedly' good.

jackieblack

sly_dog_jonah wrote: »

Just had a visit from our FiT supplier to take an 'annual reading' of our FiT meter. Not that we'd ever had one before in 21 months.

Who is your supplier?
We've never had anyone come to take a reading :huh:

mickyduck

sly_dog_jonah wrote: »

Just had a visit from our FiT supplier to take an 'annual reading' of our FiT meter. Not that we'd ever had one before in 21 months.

Was good timing as we just passed 6MWh today. He said everyone is reporting better performance this year than last, but made no comment as to whether ours was 'unexpectedly' good.

I had a visit last week from an Eon rep to read my generation meter...

jackieblack

mickyduck wrote: »

I had a visit last week from an Eon rep to read my generation meter...

Must be a new thing.

sly_dog_jonah

jackieblack wrote: »

Who is your supplier?
We've never had anyone come to take a reading :huh:

EDF. Pretty sure the FiT contract stated they would inspect the meters and the application form must have stated where the meter was located as he knew it was in my study.

Hope no one has been telling porkies on their Q2 readings!

jackieblack

We had a guy from E-On turn up about a year ago to 'take a note of the serial number on the meter'....... I wonder if that was a pretext to check the reading?

My readings are always accurate when submitted, so I don't mind if they come to read it, but the man who comes to read the import meter seems to manage to avoid anytime I'm home with amazing efficiency......

zeupater

jackieblack wrote: »

Who is your supplier?
We've never had anyone come to take a reading :huh:

Hi Jackie

We had a meter reader around about a fortnight ago to read the TGM for Scottish Power, they came around once before ... probably last year, I can't remember exactly when but it was also not long after submitting a decent meter reading .... I suppose it's likely that they simply audit a random sample in each area, that's what I'd do ....

HTH
Z