Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

John_Pierpoint

KevinG wrote: »

Well I was wondering why my generation had been such rubbish over the past couple of weeks, compared to others reported here. Today I noticed that one of the trees in our front garden had got rather high and was casting a shadow in the morning. This is it now!



Might have a go at the other tree tomorrow as the top branches are just scraping the bottom edge of the panels.

Edit: obviously (I think) I meant the shadow, not the actual branches!

Final haircut day is just before Xmas. I think my elegant single stem silver birch might survive again this year, provided it has not grown too much in the summer.

KevinG

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Final haircut day is just before Xmas. I think my elegant single stem silver birch might survive again this year, provided it has not grown too much in the summer.

Also, I hadn't noticed until today (now that the tree has been dealt with) that the telegraph pole on the other side of the road casts a feint shadow in the morning as well. I've got one on my side of the road that zaps generation after about 1pm during the winter, not that there would be much anyway. Generation this morning in the sunshine was much better than yesterday, so the tree surgery worked

John_Pierpoint

It is high time the phone company put your connection underground, they did my mums road in the 1960s.

KevinG

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

It is high time the phone company put your connection underground, they did my mums road in the 1960s.

The "phone company" is Openreach and I think it very unlikely that this would happen in our village, we haven't even got mains gas! But we do have fibre (to the cabinet) broadband, which is nice, the last part of which, of course, runs over those lovely old telegraph wires and poles.

Winter_Phoenix

legoman62 wrote: »

Panels still on the roof:j

When a house in Wales was demolished by a gas explosion in September, the solar panels were just about the only thing to survive!

I'm not a Daily Mail fan, but they did have the best pictures:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2423320/College-lecturer-comes-home-holiday-bungalow-smashed-smithereens-gas-explosion.html

John_Pierpoint

Superb can anyone trace the installers ? That picture has to be an eye catching recommendation for the panels and their installers (as long as it was not the arc caused by trying to turn off the inverter under full load next to the gas leak).

shows how important it is to read your meters, I wonder if the gas company can charge for the gas and if they will get a FiT reading from what is left of the generation meter?.

John_Pierpoint

KevinG wrote: »

The "phone company" is Openreach and I think it very unlikely that this would happen in our village, we haven't even got mains gas! But we do have fibre (to the cabinet) broadband, which is nice, the last part of which, of course, runs over those lovely old telegraph wires and poles.

Snap but in my case the cabinet is about a mile away.:mad:
Not sure I want to pay three or four times as much for a possible doubling of download speed

InVestor_2

£8.58 today (17.7 kWh)


Now within £10 of PVGIS for the month, that'll do

jackieblack

Classic target exceeded today :dance: , need 6kWh tomorrow to meet Climate. Forecast not great but keeping fingers crossed

KevinG

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Not sure I want to pay three or four times as much for a possible doubling of download speed

Three or four times as much? Should be nowhere near that, it cost me less than £10 a month extra to go from 3Mbps to 70 (I'm about 450m from the cabinet). Mind you, I don't know what you're paying at the moment. Sorry, this is all getting rather OT and probably shouldn't be continued here.