Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

InVestor_2

EricMears wrote: »

Not thrilling here either though we have had quite a few sunny spells this week.

October total: 173.94 kWh
PVGIS: 197 kWh
So 23% short of expectations

October 2011: 246 (25% excess)
October 2012: 230 (17% excess)

Shouldn't that be 12(11.7)% short?


Not as bad as you think?


I'm 11% down on PVGIS for the month, £15 down.


Can live with that

Kernel_Sanders

The BBC weather centre is now disagreeing with itself! On this page it states Mansfield will be dry throughout Friday's daylight hours yet play the video and it's rain all day!
What happened to that comment about Oscar having 'small array syndrome'? I thought it quite amusing; surely it wasn't moderated?

tunnel

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

The BBC weather centre is now disagreeing with itself! On this page it states Mansfield will be dry throughout Friday's daylight hours yet play the video and it's rain all day!
What happened to that comment about Oscar having 'small array syndrome'? I thought it quite amusing; surely it wasn't moderated?

I know what you mean KS. I use the site every day to base my decision of whether to use my motorbike on the day, throw it down...forget it, but today, I get an extra hour of dryness in comparison to you yet like your area the video shows rain nearly all day.

Worse still, there's some serious roadworks on my commute to work which if I go in the car puts an extra half hour on my journey.

Talk about dilemma......now where's my water proofs:(

EricMears

InVestor wrote: »

Shouldn't that be 12(11.7)% short?

Not as bad as you think?

Quite right ! I read the wrong column in my spreadsheet. Luckily I'd woken up by the time I looked up previous years.:D

EricMears

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

The BBC weather centre is now disagreeing with itself! On this page it states Mansfield will be dry throughout Friday's daylight hours yet play the video and it's rain all day!

What happened to that comment about Oscar having 'small array syndrome'? I thought it quite amusing; surely it wasn't moderated?

& BTW, the BBC web page seldom agrees with the forecasts read out on telly !

All goes to confirm my theory that all forecasts are computer generated by patching in random sentences from the olden days when they had real forecasters :mad:

legoman62

0.78 O's yesterday

197kWh for Oct. Down on PVGIS and last Oct:(

3500kWh since the start of my 2nd year with almost 2 weeks to go:D
Since Jan 1st made 3414kWh:beer:

John_Pierpoint

October results: “Only” 8% worse than last year; must have had a poor autumn last year too. Sunshine farming harvest is continuing to fall behind 2012 though my final crop will be gathered in about 3 weeks after Lady Day, not the traditional Michaelmas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_days

[So here is my report for All Hallows]



2013
kWh Oscarz
07.96 2.2 01/10 Tuesday
03.08 0.9 02/10 Wednesday
05.50 1.5 03/10 Thursday
05.50 1.5 04/10 Friday
05.10 1.4 05/10 Saturday
15.33 4.3 06/10 Sunday
10.39 2.9 07/10 Monday
13.22 3.8 08/10 Tuesday
08.19 2.3 09/10 Wednesday
08.19 2.3 10/10 Thursday
02.30 0.6 11/10 Friday
09.89 2.8 12/10 Saturday
01.01 0.3 13/10 Sunday
03.44 0.9 14/10 Monday
04.98 1.4 15/10 Tuesday
01.49 0.4 16/10 Wednesday
12.29 3.4 17/10 Thursday
03.11 4.1 18/10 Friday <<<<Record “crop” of 4 buckets of mushrooms
03.12 0.9 19/10 Saturday
07.27 3.1 20/10 Sunday
03.70 1.0 21/10 Monday
03.71 1.0 22/10 Tuesday
02.64 0.7 23/10 Wednesday
18.84 5.2 24/10 Thursday
05.41 1.5 25/10 Friday
09.34 2.6 26/10 Saturday
09.35 2.6 27/10 Sunday
00.49 0.1 28/10 Monday <<<Storm & powercut
10.86 3.0 29/10 Tuesday
12.48 3.5 30/10 Wednesday
01.48 0.4 31/10 Thursday

When the numbers are duplicated, I was away from home, not able to read the generation meter, I have averaged the result over the missing readings.
3.6 kWp system facing SE on 30 degree roof towards Thames Estuary.

tunnel

tunnel wrote: »

I know what you mean KS. I use the site every day to base my decision of whether to use my motorbike on the day, throw it down...forget it, but today, I get an extra hour of dryness in comparison to you yet like your area the video shows rain nearly all day.

Worse still, there's some serious roadworks on my commute to work which if I go in the car puts an extra half hour on my journey.

Talk about dilemma......now where's my water proofs:(

Damn it, the video was right and I got absolutely drenched on way home:rotfl:

Worse still, when I got home at 3.15pm it was raining that hard that both my inverters had shut down early for the day:eek:. I didn't even dare look at the generation:mad:

Oscargrouch

00.84000 O's today......:(

legoman62

legoman62 wrote: »

Think I'm gonna switch to kWh from 1st Nov to 28th Feb and think I'm doing better:rotfl:

No I'm not! 2000w today:D

Edit. Why is it when I log out, the time shows + 1hour? Has Martin forgot to change his clock:rotfl: