8.4, a rather cloudy day, although some bright spells.
Solar panel production figures
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A very slow start, but the sun came out lunchtime, and made a much better than forecasted 13.56 kWh.
11.6, tomorrow looks poor though.
Poor? More like abysmal. Forecast is for 5.3 kWh, ticking along at 265 W, really can't see 5 kWh given the Irish weather forecast for today.
I think it's a combination of both.
A very poor 2.2 kWh, highest peak 569 Watts 
It certainly does seem a bad February, my 4kW SE array last year generated 215 kWh, best year was 2019 at 265 kWh, currently at 114 kWh, or 206 for both systems.
This is turning out to be a really poor February. My SE panels generated 266kWh last year. 8 days remaining and they've only done 111kWh this year so far. I need 14.8kWh a day to hit target.
We've had 36 hours of sunshine so far. The 1991-2020 average for February is 86 hours and 2023 was 105 hours.
It certainly does seem a bad February, my 4kW SE array last year generated 215 kWh, best year was 2019 at 265 kWh, currently at 114 kWh, or 206 for both systems.
4.19 kWh today, somehow.
It got so bad today, that the SolarEdge system actually stopped generating at 14:18 and didn't kick back in until 15:00, the Victron system was generating just 20w at one point.
One year ago today the Victron system came fully online, I've generated a total of 8456 kWh in the last year.
It got so bad today, that the SolarEdge system actually stopped generating at 14:18 and didn't kick back in until 15:00, the Victron system was generating just 20w at one point.
One year ago today the Victron system came fully online, I've generated a total of 8456 kWh in the last year.
Todays forecast has been high all week, started off at 20, then started dropping today, ended up with 10.4.
17 in the end, the morning was very good, but clouds and rain this afternoon. I've beaten January's figures though and we still have 5 days to go.
Just looked at my Solaredge production, and that is still behind January's figure, the Victron system is well ahead though, must be the longer days and higher sun angle on those panels.
22.1 kWh, had a nice day for a change, the cloud covering the rest of the country just seemed to melt away as it approached the far south east of Kent.
17.9 exported as well.
I need 25 kWh to reach 300, only 21.6 forecast for the next two days, which also look rather yet, so I can't see us reaching either target.
17.9 exported as well.
I need 25 kWh to reach 300, only 21.6 forecast for the next two days, which also look rather yet, so I can't see us reaching either target.
I have gas heating. I not only export generation, but also my off peak imports. I alway charge the batteries off peak at about 17p kWh, once the batteries are full I export at about 17p, come peak time I force export at about 30p kWh.
Just fully charge in the cheap rate period, it's what I do. Costs me 17.63p per kWh to charge the batteries. If there is sun, and I end up exporting then I get 18.38p per kWh. Yes I probably lose a little to the efficiency losses, but it's negligible, and saves trying to guess what the weather is going to do.
9.36 generated. 8.38 exported at peak rate.
Did better than expected today, but still only 11.86 kWh, which brings the month to a close at 296 kWh (January was 228) just missed the 300.
It is the worse February since my panels were installed in December 2015, but it was only very slightly worse than February 2017, where the Solaredge system generated 160.779 kWh compared to 160.543 kWh this year. The best Solaredge February was in 2019 at 265.66 kWh.
It is the worse February since my panels were installed in December 2015, but it was only very slightly worse than February 2017, where the Solaredge system generated 160.779 kWh compared to 160.543 kWh this year. The best Solaredge February was in 2019 at 265.66 kWh.
@DarkBahamut Nice result in total for February, given how bad its been.
Not the south east though, only managed 13.6 kWh yesterday, 22 forecast for today though, but we have cloudy intervals forecast.
Good day here as well with 20.07 kWh, and 18.4 exported, we had sunny intervals most the day.
20 kWh forecasted every day, until the weekend with only Sunday being around 10 kWh
20 kWh forecasted every day, until the weekend with only Sunday being around 10 kWh
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Complete washout, forecast around 20, actual 10.4, rain most the day, surprised I made 10 to be honest.
@Welshman well you have got more panels.
I had a peak of 7.5kW at midday, and am at 13.94 generated so far, with 8 exported.
I had a peak of 7.5kW at midday, and am at 13.94 generated so far, with 8 exported.
23.56, new record for this year, also exported a total of 21.148kWh.
I think today might be the first day this year (not including saving sessions), that our electric has cost zero, or very slightly negative, including the standing charge.
I think today might be the first day this year (not including saving sessions), that our electric has cost zero, or very slightly negative, including the standing charge.