Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

The_Green_Hornet

July 2013 has been the best generation month to date beating the previous best of May 2011, and brings year to date generation back on PVGIS Climate target following the disastrous start to the year in the first quarter.

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EricMears

Ferdy147 wrote: »

Best month ever....year to date (since install date 08/02) is 2393kw.....and there's 6 months left.....hopefully Aug-Oct can be something close to 1000kw and then there won't be much after that.

Aug-Oct last year we managed 1002kWh. Ours is a slightly bigger system but far too shallow for that time of year so your 1000 sounds a pretty conservative guess.

In Nov-Jan we managed another 250 - which may be better than you expected.

Dave_Fowler

July has been the best month ever - 407kWh on system 1. This beats the previous best of 351kWh in July 2010. System 2 also had best month ever and produced 431kWh.

Dave F

orrery

I'm happy too. I've got a roof back on, the panels are back up and working, and I've had my best month ever, even with 3 days missing!

EricMears

Even I'm not completely disappointed with zero output so far this month

This morning has been pretty gloomy so far (amazingly: just as predicted !) and my DNO's team decided it was easier to connect their generator to our side of the meter than it was to theirs so at least we're getting some free electricity even if we're not generating any :T

zeupater

jackieblack wrote: »

Finished July with a total of 335kWh generated :j, 134% of Classic and 127% of Climate predictions :T
July 2013 exceeded July 2012 generation by 22% and July 2011 by 25%
But May 2011 still remains unbeaten in terms of kWh generated

Hi

As a direct comparison here - July '13 beat '12 by 29% and '11 by 18% .... May 2011 stands in 6th place in performance terms.

HTH
Z

jackieblack

zeupater wrote: »

Hi

As a direct comparison here - July '13 beat '12 by 29% and '11 by 18% .... May 2011 stands in 6th place in performance terms.

HTH
Z

Interesting, the regional similarities/differences

Out of curiosity, which months are 1st-5th?

zeupater

jackieblack wrote: »

Interesting, the regional similarities/differences

Out of curiosity, which months are 1st-5th?

Hi

July'13
June'11
June'13
July'11
May'12

... it's not just the regional difference which are interesting ... we're somewhere between SW & WSW and have pretty significant generation differences to a SE system just a few miles away, there's also a system which is similar orientation to ours about 10 miles away, but has probably somewhere near 100m elevation clear-sky advantage over us on misty days ..

HTH
Z

jackieblack

zeupater wrote: »

July'13
June'11
June'13
July'11
May'12

Interesting....
Our top 6 months have been
May 11
July 13
April 11
June 11
May 13
Aug 12

So whereas on your side of the country you have had the best generation in June and July, it has been a bit more random here :think:

KevinG

Another top 6:

1. July 2013
2. July 2011
3. May 2013
4. May 2012
5. June 2013
6. August 2012

Had I had panels in May 2011, I'm sure that would have been top.