Solar panel production figures

@reef Yes, but I doubt you see those peaks for very long, usually the sun is behind clouds, which allows the panels to cool down, then the sun comes out and you get a high peak, but it won't last as the panels soon warm up.
 
Ron-ski said:
35.6kWh today, apart from Thursday the rest of the week looks good.
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Nice numbers. Flux will be paying you a lot for generation should you wind up using it.

Day started badly but finally got some sun after 15:00 and wound up at 11 kWh in the end. I look forward to a full day of no clouds soon so I can check the system generation without external factors.
 
I'm fairly pleased with 15.5kWh @ 5.2 efficiency, but if the cloud had kept away the graph wouldn't look the outline of a mountain range ;)
 
20.0kWh generated and only exported 2.8kWh today. Filled the entire battery from empty and used a decent amount getting down the washing pile due to the last five cloudy days ;)
 
I unlocked the 20kwh achievement today with a tasty 22.4kWh, exported roughly 7 hence my need to complete my SEG urgently today ;)
Diverter heated the tank up from a couple of showers and still exported loads.
Dont think I am quite ready to turn off the water heating yet, but its not far off.

Weather was far from perfect so she has high 20s in her for sure, but not sure if we are able to unlock the 30mWh achievement yet. In a months time however...
 
Nice start to the day looking promising, I decided to fully charge the battery again anyway just in case it wound up being miles off. Will probably wind up exporting a bunch today if the weather is really good but nevermind.
 
Freefaller said:
I've ramped down my overnight charging now.
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Not a huge difference for me tbh, I pay £0.075 overnight and get paid £0.041 so a small delta, biggest difference is mainly not running out of power in the day as the rate then becomes £0.40 import.

To min/max Go I would ideally charge just enough to have the solar take over, but it becomes risky if the forecasts are off or wind up being a lot lower than expected. One of the reasons I still want to look at Flux, as I then don't worry at all about over-producing or even trying to min/max.
 
HungryHippos said:
One of the reasons I still want to look at Flux, as I then don't worry at all about over-producing or even trying to min/max.
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Until winter, when you need to ensure you have enough battery for the nasty 4-7pm slot.
In fact its more than winter since spring to autumn your going to have bad days as well.

The big question is going to be what to move to (can do / want to do) late autumn until early spring, because flux will in effect be expensive over the winter. (At current pricing)
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Until winter, when you need to ensure you have enough battery for the nasty 4-7pm slot.
In fact its more than winter since spring to autumn your going to have bad days as well.

The big question is going to be what to move to (can do / want to do) late autumn until early spring, because flux will in effect be expensive over the winter. (At current pricing)
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Yes though I think you'd switch away from it for winter.

You can always sort of avoid the peak by charging a little ahead of time as well, after the peak window it doesn't matter that much. if battery is flat.

Go is good but the newer prices aren't as competitive, and if you can get even the standard Eco 7 then I think winter is OK. Possibly even Agile would be fine as they do often have cheaper rates but requires more work.
 
I didn't charge mine again last night, battery was down to 18% when the solar kicked in this morning, back to 48% and dishwasher on doing yesterdays greasy roast dishes by the looks of it.

I look at the solar forecast and weather forecast, but once Flux exports kick in I'll just charge battery every night, and discharge in the peak.
 
HungryHippos said:
Yes though I think you'd switch away from it for winter.

You can always sort of avoid the peak by charging a little ahead of time as well, after the peak window it doesn't matter that much. if battery is flat.

Go is good but the newer prices aren't as competitive, and if you can get even the standard Eco 7 then I think winter is OK. Possibly even Agile would be fine as they do often have cheaper rates but requires more work.
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Thats the big unknown for me, will Octopus be happy for you to "keep" switching tariffs.
Agree on Eco 7 for winter thats quite a good tariff due to the 7 hours, which when your mainly using battery is pretty useful.

I expect go will drop again once the cap comes down, its basically set to the cap if you use average.
Unless of course they want to kill it and force EVs onto intelligent
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Thats the big unknown for me, will Octopus be happy for you to "keep" switching tariffs.
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I dunno but it doesn't seem that big of a stretch doing it every 6 months or so. Not like I'd be switching every month.

I'm still hoping we get some more details on what this new GE tariff does as that could be my best bet, and hopefully we get details before I'd switch to Flux (later this month would be my plan, end of April ish).
 
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