Solar panel production figures

Freakbro · 31 May 2023 at 13:56

Generated 1 MW for the whole of May! though these last few days have sucked balls, not even charged the batteries during the day and had to boost the hot water tank with the oil yesterday.

The Angry Welshman · 31 May 2023 at 14:24

been cloudy all day today - sun has now popped out for the first time and we go straight to producing over 3.4kwhs from cool panels, that during the recent dry spell have only reached 2.9kwhs at the most. So the heat defo has an effect on the panels of around 10%....

500kwhs here we come......

SDK^ · 31 May 2023 at 14:25

Going to be just short of 600 kWh for May - the last 2 days have been pants !

gpuerrilla · 31 May 2023 at 14:35

Sun showed up at midday. Tank already max, exporting now. Surpassed 600 yesterday for the month.

bigmike20vt · 31 May 2023 at 14:48

SDK^ said:
Going to be just short of 600 kWh for May - the last 2 days have been pants !

ditto. I need another 8kwh from now and it's not gonna happen

Scottm · 31 May 2023 at 15:44

It looks as though I'm going to miss 900kWh for May by about 6kWh!! :mad:

The Angry Welshman · 31 May 2023 at 15:50

Broke 500 about 45mins ago……so happy with that on 3.2kw system. Efficiency of around 156kwh/kw

Freefaller · 31 May 2023 at 16:32

Currently on 830 for the month. Happy with that. Probably will be closer to 840 by the end of the day.

SoliD · 31 May 2023 at 17:26

Just hit 950kwh for the month. 7 days (probably 8 after today) of over 40kwh.

The Angry Welshman · 31 May 2023 at 17:28

I might see if i can re-juggle this years home budget and fit my new panels in Autumn, no way i can do it before then.

gpuerrilla · 31 May 2023 at 18:25

Great weather since about 2pm, catching up but very slow start.

The Angry Welshman · 31 May 2023 at 18:45

Well we going to get 11kwhs today after a very slow start to the day……and 504.8kwhs for the month, nearly 180kwhs more than april. Crazy

will do full stats tomorrow including import/export.

hominid · 31 May 2023 at 20:04

I hit 1200kWh for may, that's on a 8kW array, a 6kW inverter with power-wall. It's the best month I've had with all of the install complete, way more than my usage but that's not a bad thing these days.

https://www.imgbly.com/ib/EsUFaMXDf8

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 31 May 2023 at 20:11

Another sucky day so glad I charged the batteries in go time last night
Will be again tonight as well

Month ended up at 624.5 which is significantly higher than target of 468!

June doesnt look like it will start with good generation now however

Ron-ski · 31 May 2023 at 20:18

Figures for the month:

Generated: 1325.15 kWh
Exported: 1117.69 kWh
Imported: 505kWh
Average daily generation: 42.75 kWh

The SolarEdge system ended at 634.26kWh (included in the above), which compares to my best ever month of 712.5 in 2020, making this the second best May since installation back in December 2015.

This month based on the SE system has been better than any previous June, best June figure for that system is 629.5 kWh last year. The best July figure, also last year 635.5 kWh, so unless we have exceptional weather don't expect better months this year, August is worse, over seven years the highest I had was 579 in 2016, and the lowest was 467 in August 2021.

gpuerrilla · 31 May 2023 at 20:22

Did you read the news on the grid offload prices?

Key take away (references Ron-ski solar farm):

This kind of high price reversal event is likely to occur on any sunny weekends this summer. As a response to the high energy prices last year, industrial and domestic consumers in Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and France have responded by installing solar panels; this has resulted in a big increase in solar generation on sunny days.

Ron-ski · 31 May 2023 at 20:29

@gpuerrilla no I hadn't, I googled as you posted the wrong link, seems we're generating too much power on sunny days.

branddaly · 31 May 2023 at 20:41

24 kWh for the day, morning was very murky and had less than 4 kWh at lunch time. Total for the month was 915.8 kWh against an estimate of 742, so I'm very happy. Exported 769.
Weather forecast for the next couple of weeks is looking good, but I'm expecting it to turn to a mudbath around the 16th as I'm away camping.

gpuerrilla · 31 May 2023 at 20:45

Ron-ski said:
@gpuerrilla no I hadn't, I googled as you posted the wrong link, seems we're generating too much power on sunny days.

Weird - corrected the link thanks for pointing it out.

Ron-ski · 31 May 2023 at 20:47

gpuerrilla said:
Did you read the news on the grid offload prices?

More weirdness, it now takes me to power store dot com

Did you ninja edit again as it now works? It now goes to the exact article I found.