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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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19.86 kWh today, just below 7 Os.
The cooler temperature and a slight breeze helped bump the numbers up. July is heading rapidly towards being our best ever month, lets hope it carries on that way.Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0 -
Sirlaughalot wrote: »Need help please. One salesman has told me that because i have the old type analogue electric meter because these don`t work with correctly with PV systems i will have to get it replaced at a cost to me. Could add £300 - £500 to the cost. Is he correct?
Thanks
SL
No, he is totally incorrect.
The meter will work with PV. It may well go backwards which will be to your benefit not the electricity supplier but it is then down to them to change it. If it goes backwards then you are effectively "banking" electricity generated during the day to use overnight or over the coming months as the meter then goes forward again.Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0 -
Another pretty good day yield : 23.45 kWh
Again mostly sunny but a few passing clouds caused rapid loss of a few kW.
Month's total to date now 88% of pvgis for whole month. Or looking at it slightly differently, two or three more days like today and we'll be ahead of pvgis with ten 'bonus days' to follow.NE Derbyshire.4kWp S Facing 17.5deg slope (dormer roof).24kWh of Pylontech batteries with Lux controller BEV : Hyundai Ioniq50 -
6.28 O's today, happy with that..
£334.11. so far this 1/4. This 1/4 ends August 22nd.
92.25% of PVGIS acheived so far. Why, Why do we listen to these overpaid boffins? ( Thankfully,. I don't but still have to pay the price for all the 'Global warming, CRAP'
2.5 kWp PV system, SSW facing, 45 Deg Roof. ABB Inverter, Monitor: 'Wattson'.
Reg. for FIT Nov 2011. "It's not what you generate; it's how you use it that matters". One very clean Vauxhall Diesel Sri, £30.00 Road Tax:
Definition of 'O's = kWh/kWp (kWh = your daily & accurate Generation figure) (kWp = the rated output of your PV Panels).0 -
Oscargrouch wrote: »Why, Why do we listen to these overpaid boffins? ( Thankfully,. I don't but still have to pay the price for all the 'Global warming, CRAP'
I'm really surprised we haven't heard more from the GW 'high priests' claiming that this is the sort of weather they predicted and we can expect next year to be even hotter !
Of course, that falls down a bit when you remember that same ought to have happened last year !NE Derbyshire.4kWp S Facing 17.5deg slope (dormer roof).24kWh of Pylontech batteries with Lux controller BEV : Hyundai Ioniq50 -
6.4 O's yesterday:D
Over 25 O's or 100kWh up on last July so far:rotfl:
Local forecast for W/E not so good tho!16 Sanyo Hit 250s.4kWp SMA 3.8kWp inverter. SW roof. 28° pitch. Minimal shade. Nov 2011 install. Hybrid car. Ripple Kirk Hill. N.E Lincs Coast.0 -
A very disappointing 20kWh yesterday due to random spells of cloud, how rude. Still, thats 14 days at 20kWh or more in a row. Previous day was 22.4kWh. 360kWh in the bag already this month, 12 days to go. PVGIS target might be reached in next 3 days.Cider Country Solar PV generator: 3.7kWp Enfinity system on unshaded SE (-36deg azimuth) & 45deg roof0
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Wow! That's impressive!sly_dog_jonah wrote: »Previous day was 224kWh.
2.22kWp Solar PV system installed Oct 2010, Fronius IG20 Inverter, south facing (-5 deg), 30 degree pitch, no shadingEverything will be alright in the end so, if it’s not yet alright, it means it’s not yet the endMFW #4 OPs: 2018 £866.89, 2019 £1322.33, 2020 £1337.07
2021 £1250.00, 2022 £1500.00, 2023 £1500, 2024 £13502025 target = £1200, YTD £9190
Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur0 -
HiI'm really surprised we haven't heard more from the GW 'high priests' claiming that this is the sort of weather they predicted and we can expect next year to be even hotter !
Of course, that falls down a bit when you remember that same ought to have happened last year !
The first 6 months of this year were all below average temperature and July looks to be around 2C higher than average ... year to date is still well below average ....
If you look into 5year average temperatures, we in the UK have been cooling from a peak for a few years and are now back to where we were in the late 1980's .... place this into context, the current 5 year average is ~0.1C warmer than it was in 1779, the year that the 'Iron Bridge' was built which was a significant point in the industrialisation process and pretty close to the beginning of the period considered as being the 'industrial revolution' ..... looking at it another way, in the past 30 years of post industrialisation 'increased temperatures' there have been 11years which were warmer than when the 'Iron Bridge' was built ...
Doesn't mean that warming isn't happening, or not .... but does place many claims by those with 'vested interests' into context ....
HTH
Z"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit. " ...... Aristotle0 -
Hisly_dog_jonah wrote: »A very disappointing 20kWh yesterday due to random spells of cloud, how rude. Still, thats 14 days at 20kWh or more in a row ....
Sky's much clearer today as evidenced by the much deeper blue colour, our early generation was very low due to absence of refraction/relection which is always a clue ... so, it looks like a better day for generation, possibly the best yet this month ....
Z"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit. " ...... Aristotle0
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