Soldato
Yes, at work, but also couldn't see a way to easily get the data in PV Output. I have the API key, but it doesn't look like PV Output supports Solis.
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Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?
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Soldato
From what I have read they are generally seen as a little higher in the tier rating than JA
Looks like it makes sense now why they seem to take up more roof space than predicted since the panels are larger
They are the lower efficiency wafers hence bigger panels.
They do have 12 year guarantee vs the 10 from JA
Just means obviously should something happen at a later date I would need to replace with larger panels again
Soldato
Will look into it and update. Working out how to get HACS first..
I just thought I'd provide the update that after 3 weeks SSE have approved my A3-3 with a formal letter saying that I could connect (even though it is a connect and notify service but whatever).
They also sent me an A3-2 to send back to confirm commissioning for the purpose of their records. I sent that back with schematic and a completed ELS Commissioning Form. My installer has gone radio silent so I had to do it all.
So result is my 5kw G99 hybrid inverter is all OK and registered with an export limitation to 3.68kw without needing a witness test (£s) or paying the Second Comer Contribution that SSE wanted to permit 5kw.
The A3-3 process is a great way for those with >3.68kw inverters to get up and running and worse case limit export if the DNO won't permit or wants lots of money to export more than 3.68kw.
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Soldato
PV Output is just a web URL all the Givenergy thing does is send a request with parameters and an API key/Instance ID.
If Home Assistant can read the values, it can work with PV Output.
If Home Assistant can read the values, it can work with PV Output.
Only just over £56.00 for me!Yes first time I ever have done it.
Fortunately we had had a sunny day so batteries had plenty of charge.
That's equivalent of £2.26 - so basically a day's worth of electricity.
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Soldato
Clouds stopped play at 8.9kwhs…..2.747 efficiency
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I don't understand how you are doing this, do you normally import during those hours?
Man of Honour
That's stonking!
I also get 15p per kWh exported - so I'm hoping that the overall total will start to clock up. I kept missing the saving sessions, so I'm going to put more of an effort in.
Soldato
How do save £56 in 2hrs????
It's skewed to 4 hours - one hour before the session starts.
So using maximum amount from the Grid in 1pm to 4pm for the session start at 5pm.
In my case, electric underfloor heating on ( gas normally) charge batteries, laundry etc. In that window and then nothing but from the batteries in the savings session.
See my post above, it's more about what you use prior and then not use in the session.
Soldato
No its not, its what octopus pay you back for the 2hr saving session….and as its £2.20 per kwh saved, that would mean you didnt use 25.6kwh in the 2hr session, thats a crazy amount of electric in 2hrs
its also based on the previous weeks usage of the same time and day
i use 4kwhs per day, so thats over 6 days of electric for me
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I'm sorry but you are wrong:
Edit: for reference I used around 36kWh in the three hour period.
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Soldato
Thanks for the feedback. What is this bit?
Is there any way of knowing what export they are able to accept or is this just made up on the spot when their local engineer ganders at the local site?
Asking as we are rural but paid for our connection when building. We have 100amp service which splits off from a pole transformer assuming 11kVa. If you could reverse calculate what their max export would be allowed you could then just spec the inverter to that or cap a bigger one.
Soldato
How much have octopus paid you for the 2hr saving session????
Just over £56
Soldato
Yeah hes right, and its nice to see the in day adjustment window clarified, i need to tinker a little based on that
So your savings sessions saving is flexed based on your 10 day average and then a daily demand flex adjustment to your 10 day average based on that 3 hour window vs the average for that window (to detect high usage and I assume low usage days)
So your savings sessions saving is flexed based on your 10 day average and then a daily demand flex adjustment to your 10 day average based on that 3 hour window vs the average for that window (to detect high usage and I assume low usage days)
Soldato
4.4 today was a little cloud around 1:30 that seemed to knock 1kwh off the generation from then
Nearly, 10 day average for the two hour session but only on the day of the session for the 3 hours window. Apparently there is an algorithm that varies the benefit based on 1, 2, 3 hours etc session - in this case it works on around 2/3 of the usage difference.