Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Oscargrouch

shafeeq wrote: »

hi
3.59kw.. my system seems to be the worse one.
Shafeeq

Do not despair , You have to compare 'apples - apples'.
My 9.1 divided by my system of 2.5kW = 3.64
Erics 7.07 divided by his sytem = 1.76
Your 3.59 by 3kW sytem = 1.19 not too far behind Erics 4kW sytem but enough to have the weather effect both.

Hang on in there......:T Spain could be better!

Oscargrouch

EricMears wrote: »

but !!



Without storage tanks, the water would hit the turbines almost immediately and generate about half the energy just used to pump it up to roof.

On it's first run through such a system, a typical annual rainfall on a typical roof might perhaps generate 100kWh per year (saving £10 from your annual bill). Even with a 1 tonne tank filled by solar PV & emptied at night you'd only generate a further 365 kWh (saving £40 from your annual bill). If the 'investment' was to make any financial sense, saving £50 on an annual electricity bill could justify a maximumum capital cost of around £500 and I've got grave doubts that would buy the required kit.

:rotfl:OK, I will stay with the ISA system....:rotfl:

EricMears

Oscargrouch wrote: »

Do not despair , You have to compare 'apples - apples'.
My 9.1 divided by my system of 2.5kW = 3.64
Erics 7.07 divided by his sytem = 1.76
Your 3.59 by 3kW sytem = 1.19 not too far behind Erics 4kW sytem but enough to have the weather effect both.

Hang on in there......:T Spain could be better!

It's been a dreadful few weeks since Shafeeq's system was fitted and there have been huge variations in local weather.

I'm only around 20 miles from Sheffield but know of several areas even closer than that where weather variations have been huge.

We really need a day of unbroken sunshine over the whole of the E Midlands & S Yorkshire before Oscargrouch's ratios will be really helpful. Every chance that will happen some time between now and October; little chance it will be this week :mad:

shafeeq

I am hanging on........ it's just one of those things... as you said if not this month then next :0).

I am also waiting for Npower to register my systems for FiTs... all slow going argggg

I am waiting for them to send me the contract....

Shafeeq

EricMears wrote: »

It's been a dreadful few weeks since Shafeeq's system was fitted and there have been huge variations in local weather.

I'm only around 20 miles from Sheffield but know of several areas even closer than that where weather variations have been huge.

We really need a day of unbroken sunshine over the whole of the E Midlands & S Yorkshire before Oscargrouch's ratios will be really helpful. Every chance that will happen some time between now and October; little chance it will be this week :mad:

Martyn1981

EricMears wrote: »

It's been a dreadful few weeks since Shafeeq's system was fitted

Well spotted Eric. It's always good to have a scapegoat at times like these. Maybe we should go all 'Wicker Man' on Shafeeq.

I'll get the torches, you bring the pitch forks, and Oscar can organise a mob of PV'ers who'll all tut very loudly outside Shafeeq's!

Apologies for this nonsense, but I'm succumbing to hysteria from lack of sunlight and 2 months of trying to organise a PV extension with the DNO. 20 days to go, and full re-start, from scratch. Quick tip for anyone considering an extension - don't.

Mart.

legoman62

Only managed 5.83kWh yesterday:mad:

Not used my boiler(for hot water) for a couple of months now:j








16 x 250kWp Sanyo Hit250 solar panels. SMA 3.8kWp inverter. SW facing roof. 30 degree pitch with no shading.

EricMears

Martyn1981 wrote: »

Well spotted Eric. It's always good to have a scapegoat at times like these. Maybe we should go all 'Wicker Man' on Shafeeq.

I'm not apportioning blame - but if I was I wouldn't target Shafeeq.

Some clown must have had a reason for moving our 'fixed Spring Bank Holiday' from May to June but I didn't & still don't see the logic. What with the so-called Jubilee holiday (should have been in February really), Queen's official birthday weekend & Trooping of Colour plus Wimblebore, June hadn't a prayer of seeing any sunshine. July may not be any better (rest of WRC and Olympics) but I'm confident of a few good days in August September and even October.

John_Pierpoint

shafeeq wrote: »

I am hanging on........ it's just one of those things... as you said if not this month then next :0).

I am also waiting for Npower to register my systems for FiTs... all slow going argggg

I am waiting for them to send me the contract....

Shafeeq

Got any trees reducing the local "brightness"?
Got any shadows (eg poles/chimneys/complicated TV aerials) tracking across any panels.

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

Martyn1981 wrote: »

Quick tip for anyone considering an extension - don't.

I used to get loads of e-mails offering extensions. I always ignored them as I'd never had any complaints in the past.

Oh, wait a minute. You don't mean that kind of extension? Never mind.

shafeeq

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Got any trees reducing the local "brightness"?
Got any shadows (eg poles/chimneys/complicated TV aerials) tracking across any panels.

Hi John

My Roof is Soutfacing, It's a semi-detch there is a chimney here is the photo

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4BdMuNDbtffRWdEQzhKOEFSQW8

As for a tree, there is a tree on land of my next door and the house at the back. There is a shade early in morning. Here is the photo from the behind houses.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4BdMuNDbtffdkZ5RUJRQ0V1bFU

Shafeeq