Wet rainy Kent is bottom of the league tables today.
Just 1.2 kWh
Just 1.2 kWh
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Solar panel production figures
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Thats over twice as much as what I got, 1.2 kWh yesterday, forecast is for 5 today.
I used to use Forecast solar, but it seemed very inaccurate, it could have been my programming though.
I now use the built in Victron forecast - see the link in my signature, if it asks for a password, just click the back button or hit the link again, also sometimes it doesn't show the forecast on the shared site.
8 kWh here today, with a 4kW peak power at 11:18
I would think so, they are at a better angle so do generate a lot more this time of year.
You may well have peaks that are higher, but you just don't see them. Looking at the graphs at 11:18, it shows as 2.864kW, but my Node Red updates every 5 seconds, whereas the graphs only log the data every minute, so will easily miss the peaks in between, if that makes sense.
I worked out our full year costs for 2023 today, minus £405, that includes referrals, FITS, export and saving sessions. The first three months was on standard variable rate as well, and our Feb 2023 bill estimated annual costs for electric at £1730 and gas at £960, so a saving of around £3k.
Payback will be about 7 years
actually a bit less, as 3 months last year was on SVR.
@john_smith Did you move to another country today? Perfect graph and nearly 20 kWh, very nice.
Payback will be about 7 years
actually a bit less, as 3 months last year was on SVR.@john_smith Did you move to another country today? Perfect graph and nearly 20 kWh, very nice.
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1.2 today, and its that cold that the battery heating came on one of the batteries at 8c, its currently zero outside.
11.7 kWh generated and 4.3 exported.
If you mean the exporting, I always try and export some at peak rate, but due to saving sessions only export between 16:00 & 16:30, even if the batteries aren't full, but I stop if I get down to 55% SOC, although I had 74% left at 16:30 today which is a novelty at this time of year.
It's the original array generating most of the power at the moment, yesterday it generated 9 kWh, which means the garage array only added 2.7 kWh. The panels on the garage are at 10 degrees east/west, and also shaded around midday by a neighbours tree, due to the low height of the sun.
Look at what Oldman generated with a 2.94 kW array yesterday, his is all south facing. 10.1 kWh, he's only 13 miles away from me as the crow flies.
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I take it you are getting shading as well then.
11.17 kWh generated, a total of 6.121 kWh exported, 2.26 before my forced export, which means solar actually topped my batteries up to full today, although they also hit 100% just before 5 this morning.
2.9 here, a bit better than forecast.
4.1 for today, currently at 73.3 for the month, so should easily beat Decembers 130 kWh
Whereabouts in the country are you? Seems a bit high for the UK.
Looking at what others have generated today with south facing systems its perfectly possible, it's going to be one corker of a system come the summer months.
Some systems count battery discharge as PV yield, and we also have the odd person posting from over sea's, hence I was wondering where you was located.
A perfect solar day, and 13.4 kWh, 10.3 of that was from the SE system.
This shows just how bad the low sun and resultant shading affects my garage panels.
This shows just how bad the low sun and resultant shading affects my garage panels.
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Luckily it's still there, shinning brightly.
13.3 generated and 9.2 exported, 4.77 of the export was prior to forced export at 16:00 for half an hour.
13.6 today, slightly better than Monday's monthly high, if this keeps up should break 200 for the month.