Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Martyn1981

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

As I am on "Economy 7" my chest freezer has been on a time switch for years.

Obviously no point in having it turned on for 3 or 4 hours before the half price electricity switches on, or for the few hours after the cheap Economy 7 turns off, before the roof panels start generating a serious surplus. .

I've read several times, but never looked any further, about freezers that have a sort of 'supercharge' feature, where they cool down even further at set times - presumably for intermittent supply (?), but this could work well with E7 or PV, depending on price and availability.

Hope I'm not making this up.

Mart.

KevinG

Another good month, 240.7kWh (120.35 O's), 18% above SAF PVGIS, 9.3% above August 2012.

Best days: 1st (12.15kWh) and 31st (11.89kWh) - odd!
Worst days: 16th (2.14kWh) and 24th (1.57kWh)

If September continues the trend I'm up for a record-breaking quarter.

Estwing

404kwh for August, not bad considering I missed the first 6 days

PVGIS was 350ish (I think, haven't got figures to hand)

Just submitted meter reads to Scottish poor, electric bill £19.24 compared to last years August bill of £31.32 so well chuffed :beer:

legoman62

3.55 O's yesterday
Aug total 460 kWh:D
20% up on last Aug and over 12% better than PVGIS:beer:

[Deleted User]

16% better than PVGIS

jackieblack

August 2013
307kWh generated :j, 31% above target
(PVGIS targets, Classic 233kWh, Climate 233.1kWh)

The_Green_Hornet

August 2013 generation was 18.98% above PVGIS climate target.

2013 year-to-date generation is now 2.68% above PVGIS climate target.

PV Output

sly_dog_jonah

Cider Country August generation was 402kWh (108.6 O's) and 6.6% above PVGIS-Classic estimate. Nothing too special but at least it wasn't under target. Off to Spain on Tuesday so no doubt it will be a stellar start to September.

September is quarterly reading date, but I last submitted early in June (12th) so it's gonna be a bumper payout: £589.52 so far and I could hang on until 30th September.

John_Pierpoint

After the poor results for March, I am marginally ahead of 2012 sunshine- farming results. I wonder how the results of (say) a Barley Baron's results reflect the summer weather - Barley certainly won't grow at below Zero temperatures, but other things being equal the electricity yield is enhanced by falling temperatures.

2013
kWh Oscarz
24.86 6.9 01/08 Thursday (Almost a personal record)
09.52 2.6 02/08 Friday
18.93 5.3 03/08 Saturday
20.40 5.7 04/08 Sunday
16.75 4.7 05/08 Monday
16.75 4.7 06/08 Tuesday
16.75 4.7 07/08 Wednesday
16.75 4.7 08/08 Thursday
14.36 4.0 09/08 Friday
12.17 3.4 10/08 Saturday
05.93 1.7 11/08 Sunday
13.34 3.7 12/08 Monday
15.06 4.2 13/08 Tuesday
16.17 4.5 14/08 Wednesday
16.17 4.5 15/08 Thursday
07.63 2.1 16/08 Friday
13.21 3.7 17/08 Saturday
17.54 4.9 18/08 Sunday
17.54 4.9 19/08 Monday
17.54 4.9 20/08 Tuesday
17.54 4.9 21/08 Wednesday
13.67 3.8 22/08 Thursday
13.67 3.8 23/08 Friday
13.67 3.8 24/08 Saturday
13.67 3.8 25/08 Sunday
18.28 5.1 26/08 Monday
19.36 5.4 27/08 Tuesday
19.10 5.3 28/08 Wednesday
19.61 5.4 29/08 Thursday
17.76 4.9 30/08 Friday
20.76 5.8 31/08 Saturday

When the numbers are duplicated, I was away from home and so not able to read the generation meter; so averaged the result over the missing readings.
For example I am told it rained all day in South Essex on Saturday 24th.

3.6 kWp system facing SE on 30 degree roof.

jackieblack

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I am told it rained all day in South Essex on Saturday 24th.

And North Essex, worst day of the month (2kWh gen )