Solar panel production figures

[Ron-ski]

Today's weather forecast was bad, sun first thing then clouds and rain.
Currently been mainly sunny and 8.3kWh generated so far, with today's peak power at 6691 watts so far.

 

[Ron-ski]

Battery was full by 11am, didn't help that I charged it to 60% overnight.

 

[Ron-ski]

25.29kWh for me, 11 exported.

 

[Ron-ski]

I am now on the Live pvoutput data upload

Nice one, all working and producing nicely I see.

 

[Ron-ski]

Seems I got my weather forecast wrong again and charged battery to 60% overnight. 22kWh so far and almost 10 of that exported, if it carries on like this it could be a record day. Sun keeps going behind clouds, but regularly generating over 6kW.

 

[Ron-ski]

Finished the day at 28.37kWh, turned charging off overnight, as the weather forecast looks similar to today.

On target for 515kWh for the month, going by daily averages.

 

[Ron-ski]

15.1kWh for me today with 5.1 efficiency

I wish mine was as efficient as yours, that's impressive. Seperately, the SolarEdge system is 3.8, and the garage system is 2.9.

 

[Ron-ski]

That makes two of us, and I didn't charge the battery last night, got down to 26% and now at 57%. The afternoon is forecast to be sunnier.

 

[Ron-ski]

23.22kWh, tomorrows weather is forecast as 80% chance of rain all day, so I'm going to fully charge the battery tonight.

 

[Ron-ski]

so hopefully its an indication of how bad March was as opposed to a dodgy model

I cas assure you it's a bad March, best March I've had was 2020 with 430kWh, and that was from the 4kW system, so far this month it's produced exactly half that. Worst March was 2018 with just 251kWh.

 

[Ron-ski]

My best March was 2020 too with 401.8kWh with 2.940kW

Yours is pointing exactly south though isn't it?

My SolarEdge system is at a 30 degree pitch, yours is at 35, never quite worked out the exact orientation of ours, 8 are pointing roughly south east, and the others pointing south west.

Just goes to show how much difference pure south facing makes.

@Welshman That's the one, although I was still working. Also had my best ever May at 712kWh, and I think April may also have been the best that year.

 

[Ron-ski]

Well that was a bit better than expected, 11.19kWh, but good job I fully charged the battery overnight. Tomorrow still looking good.

 

[Ron-ski]

Had a few odd clouds this morning, this afternoon it's looking more cloudy, but so far 23.77kWh today.

 

[Ron-ski]

@Ron-ski I think your new panels are working pretty well!

Certainly are today, 15kWh exported, and 34kWh generated so far today, but now quite cloudy.

Basically the garage panels have doubled my generation.

 

[Ron-ski]

39.55kWh, so close to 40, new all time high for me, over 12 hours of generation, started at 6:34 and still a few watts at the moment.

Very nice morning, but the afternoon got quite cloudy.

Rest of the month doesn't look very good though, just more rain.

 

[Ron-ski]

@Dunk05 Come on post that graph It was quite interesting how the export limitation curtailed generation once the battery was full.

 

[Ron-ski]

I was feeling so generous that I gave away 19kWh to the hard up energy companies

 

[Ron-ski]

Thats nearly 4 bucks of flux you gave away there ron…..

I know, still waiting on my export MPAN to be set up

 

[Ron-ski]

my sensor is showing 19watts when no solar is being produced,

My energy meter on my SolarEdge PV does that., it's only 4w though so minimal. I would expect it to be negative at nighttime though, occasionally it does show negative but rarely.

 

[Ron-ski]

Yep very poor 8.83kWh today, seems like the whole country was under a rain cloud.

Talking of clouds I use https://meteoradar.co.uk/clouds-sun-UK-Ireland to get an idea of how things are going, but clouds have a habit of forming out of nowhere.