14, highest so far, tomorrow looking good as well.
Solar panel production figures
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Still sunny here, but the clouds are starting to roll in.
It must be a bad day, I'm the only one so far, above 1kWh of generation.
Somehow I managed 2.05 kWh, no idea how though given the weather!
SE Panels 0.850 kWh
East Panels 0.62 kWh
West Panels 0.6 kWh
Must just be the right sort of cloud to diffuse the light fairly well.
SE Panels 0.850 kWh
East Panels 0.62 kWh
West Panels 0.6 kWh
Must just be the right sort of cloud to diffuse the light fairly well.
I've just seen someone moaning on Reddit that they had a smart meter installed two months ago, and they've only just noticed the installer left their panels turned off 
How many times a day do we check our systems
How many times a day do we check our systems
Only 4 kWh today, but as tomorrow is forecast for 14.1 I decided to dump another lot to the grid between 18:30 and 19:00, so a total of 7.6 exported, 7.4 at peak rate. Now we'll get a saving session in that half hour period.
Apparently its an inherited system (so even less chance), isn't smart and the gen meter requires a ladder to read it.
Apparently its an inherited system (so even less chance), isn't smart and the gen meter requires a ladder to read it.
15.51, best day so far this year, total of 9.67 exported.
10.8 today,now 201 for the month, another 35 forecast.
13.2
4.33 kWh, basically covered background usage - battery SOC pretty much stayed the same once it was light enough all day, still managed to export 7.5kWh though.
Just grey clouds and 3.3 kWh here
I'd be interested to hear how you get on with the NW panels, I've got quite a large NW roof, although there is a chimney which could affect things mid to late afternoon.
Its actually been a better January than last year, the SE system made 126.3kWh last January. and 147.74kWh this year.
Both systems generated a total of 228 kWh this month, was hoping to get to 230, but it wasn't to be, only made 5.5 today out of the forecast 10 kWh.
That compares to 130 in December and 265 in November.
Both systems generated a total of 228 kWh this month, was hoping to get to 230, but it wasn't to be, only made 5.5 today out of the forecast 10 kWh.
That compares to 130 in December and 265 in November.
That's impressive.
See this post https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/solar-panel-production-figures.18965743/post-36865859
Remind me, what size array do you have? IIRC correctly its all pointing south.
15.32 generated, 8.611 exported, nice start to February.
13.12 kWh generated, 13.89 exported, 7.72 Saving session/Flux rate and 3.21 also a Flux rate, rest at day rate.
That's an incredible difference.
This is incorrect, you can now extend and change a FITS system, BUT it will have to be done by an MCS approved installer who knows what they are doing. If you take a 4kW system and make it an 8kW system the FITS payments would be based on 50% of generation (thus 4kW), they pro-rata the payments on the increase in system size.
If it 9 years old it should be a FITS system, and depending on size earn a decent amount, you get paid for every kWh you generate regardless of if you use it, you also get paid for what you export, and on most systems that's assumed to be 50% of generation, but quite often you are better off switching the export side to a company like Octopus.
Being fitted from new though, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a small token system, therefore see my comment in my last post above if you wanted to extend it.
My panels fitted in December 2015 are still working very well, and there is another user on here with a 2012 system still working very well, panels have got more powerful, but they have got bigger, and perhaps a bit more efficient along with some other improvements, but not massively.
PS. We have a specific thread for these sort of questions https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...-real-world-reccomendations.18946524/page-463
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