Solar panel production figures

[Ron-ski]

Why the sad face??

Because he's got Irish weather, not Kentish weather

 

[Ron-ski]

38.5 generated and 30.17 exported (16 at peak rate), another nice day.

I was going to say there is a very slim chance I might break 1000 kWh for the month, but considering 3 out of the next 4 days have rain forecast that's not happening.

 

[Ron-ski]

Yesterday I came home and there's a winding trail of footprints or splatters across the panels.

This morning I caught them red handed blocking the panels.

 

[Ron-ski]

Air rifle time….

Knowing my luck I'll hit the panel, steps and a long stick did the trick.

 

[Ron-ski]

Just stopped exporting, the battery is now at 45.9%, I aim to stop at 45% or 19:00 at the end of the peak rate. 25.68 kWh exported.

As for solar, that is 26.76 kWh, the day wasn't too bad until mid afternoon when it started to rain.

 

[Ron-ski]

@Welshman I was just going to mention you were at the top of the charts, I don't think there's any chance of me catching up any time soon, we're ticking along around 500 to 600w

 

[Ron-ski]

Off to throw a party in the garden….bbq all round lol

Nice, I'll be there in about four and half hours

 

[Ron-ski]

Today is forecast 25, tomorrow 40.

The sun keeps coming out, currently putting 5.8kW into the batteries, at that rate they will be full in about 20 minutes.

 

[Ron-ski]

18.19 and 15.5 exported, pretty bad day all day, with some sun.

 

[Ron-ski]

27 kWh by 1pm, lovely day.

PS 17.8 exported already.

 

[Ron-ski]

I noticed that, my Solaredge system always lags a bit with the updates, hence why my power always looks a bit low, and a big drop on the end of the graph.

 

[Ron-ski]

Come on buddy, i'm routing for you to clear 50 today.

Thanks, literally just ticked over to 50 kWh and still generating 2kW, although you are still going to beat me, and so you should more panels, better installation direction etc.

Been locking at the cloud radar and we've both been clear pretty much all day, just some minor clouds, although you may have had a few more than me.

 

[Ron-ski]

Best day for me this year as well, its also a new April record, best day last April was 48.81.

51.63 generated.
50.57 exported.

2008 kWh this year so far.

Pretty much a perfect solar day.

 

[Ron-ski]

Whilst jealous of you guys with huge systems I'm quite happy with my little 3.96kwp setup. Produced 22kwh today and as I'm on the original 2010 FITs regime it means I get paid 74.3p per kwh inc 50% deemed export
I still have 11 years to go on the 25 year contract and basically have had free electricity for the past 10 years after getting ROI after 4 years.

I had a FITS system installed in December 2015, I get just 17.44p per unit, I did away with the deemed export as I have another non FIT system. My FITS system paid for itself by by 2022 IIRC (can't find the spreadsheet!).

 

[Ron-ski]

I would like to add some more panels (east and West facing) and a battery at some point in the future. I guess if I add panels to the same array and inverter they will cancel our FIT agreement.

You can now extend a FITS system, even add a battery. When you do this you are paid pro-rata, so if you doubled the PV array size you would be paid based on 50% of the generation, and a bi-directional meter is required to take account of charging the battery. You would need an MCS certified installer who understands the process. I've not heard of anybody doing this, and its based on what I've read in MCS documents. Here's a couple of links I just found.

Extending Existing Solar Arrays - BeBa Energy Solar Power

For many businesses that installed solar panels between 2010 – 2015 it was something of a gamble. Solar was far from a proven technology in the UK, and the cost of the installation was very high. As a result, many businesses did not necessarily realise the full potential of their roof or land as...

www.beba-energy.co.uk

Feed-in Tariff

Under the Feed-in Tariff scheme, householders receive payments for the electricity generated by eligible installed systems.

energysavingtrust.org.uk

Other option is of course to install a completely separate system, which is what I did.

 

[Ron-ski]

Could be a record day today. Generated 7 so far and currently generating @ 4.3. Graph looks perfect so far....*

*Sorry for the jinx. Cloud and rain before lunchtime.

The day was forecast for 30, but that's dropped to 26, weather isn't very good, lots of cloud.

 

[Ron-ski]

That cloud over Kent that's pushing up can bugger off though

Don't worry its still here, and even thicker cloud over Wale's.

 

[Ron-ski]

I'll be lucky if I make half of what I did yesterday, currently at 13.2 kWh

 

[Ron-ski]

Having a great battle with the gaff today. Their system (apologies if you're here and I've not tagged you) starts generating strong almost instantly in the day. Nice.

The Gaff doesn't count, it doesn't report generation properly, only time it's not 'generating' is when the batteries are charged overnight.

Basically any power discharged from the battery is reported as generation, thus it's totally inaccurate.

You've been lucky with the weather today, there's a clear corridor going up country, with clouds either side of it.

 

[Ron-ski]

A rather poor day today, much worse than forecast, just 18.68 kWh, actually exported more than we generated at 18.8 kWh.

Today's electric should just be negative, yesterday was -£5.37 including SC.
We had two days this month where electricity cost money, Sunday which was 60p and 3 April which cost 35p, this months electric should be about £47.42 profit depending on today's cost.

Total for the month is 907 kWh, compared to last April which was 966 kWh, next month will be over 1 MWh (last May was 1.325 MWh)

Total for this year so far is 2031 kWh, 1070 from the SolarEdge system and 961 from the garage array.