Solar panel production figures

[Ron-ski]

6.40 today. I'm finding the weather forecast for sun very poor to help me predict how much overnight charge to enable on the battery. I also use Solcast but clearly I'm not understanding it as the forecast appears not to be accurate either?

Octopus Flux import

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.

 

[AnastieByte]

Ah ok. For some reason thought you were on agile.

I was going to change to Agile but never got round to it. However, lesson learnt and I will in the autumn.

 

[200sols]

I was going to change to Agile but never got round to it. However, lesson learnt and I will in the autumn.

Pretty much the same advice Ronski gave above though, I charge every night in the cheapest slots.

 

[d_p]

2.4 kWh today
129.8 kWh for February
174 kWh estimated
186.4 kWh last February (and that was from the 4th of February and no leap year!)
Terrible weather this month

 

[Nathan]

8.8 today.

277 for the month. Shame I missed the 300. What a rubbish, wet February.

 

[Oldman2]

7.5kWh today and 170.7kWh for the month. 223 Feb last yr.

 

[gpuerrilla]

11.3 today.

 

[Infidelus]

2.1 today, 135.9 for the month.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

6.1 today, 248kwh for Feb and that includes some days downtime, I think I missed out on 40kwh.

 

[Welshman]

4.8 today…..been a poor month indeed. Missed target by a mile with only 129kwh for the month.

 

[tamzzy]

3.9 today
116.4 for the month less 8 days (new installation)

 

[JackRegan]

4 yesterday and 6.5.

January 189.3
February 227.1

 

[sygitius]

2.7 kWh today
113.7 kWh for February

 

[reef]

8.1 today, 8.0 exported.

281.0 for the month against a target of 288.7. 192.3 on the SE panels and 88.7 on the NW.

Last year did 266.1 on the SE array on its own so this year was much worse.

 

[branddaly]

202 for the month, against an estimate of 302. Worst performance against the estimate since it's been installed. Not sure I've had a day without rain in Feb.

 

[BUDFORCE]

3.19 kWh today was miserable.

187kwh for the month.

 

[Pyr0m@nI@]{]

7.8 today taking February's total to 234 vs the estimated 232 from PVWatts.

[edit] PVWatts says 411 for March

 

[Servo]

6.1 for today 143.80kWh for February

 

[Ron-ski]

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.

 

[redfist]

Absolutely pants day, managed only 3.6kWh today