Solar PV Performance Thread - Post your monthly output

Jonathan

4.83kWp south facing, Dublin Fingal, 10kWh battery

June Stats

694kWh generated (vs 626kWh for June 22)

208kWh exported (70% solar self-consumption)

9kWh imported (9kWh day, 0kWh night)

34.7kWh generated best day (14th June)

9.1kWh generated worst day (27th June)

0kWh natural gas heating

Month of records. Highest ever daily and monthly generation since install.

My new method of using force discharge to smooth over the Zappi stop/start on cloud days is paying dividends too and has decreased grid import. Also particularly handy for dumping energy into the EV in the morning when you're going to be out for day.

Moreilly

1168 kWh Generated

760 kWh Used

20 kWh imported

8.8kWp south facing, Kildare area

rgfuller

20th Month

Dublin - Lucan - June 23 - 7.12kW installed (S: 3.45kW, E: 2.41kW, W: 1.38kW). E&W Optimised. 5KWh Battery, (30 S & 22.5 E/W degree pitch).

Total Generation: 865kWh (414kWh self use (inc. battery), 451kWh to grid)

Best Day: June 14th - 42.0kWh (new record (41.7 previously))

Worst Day: June 30th - 9.1kWh

Total Consumption: 433kWh (94% Solar: 6% Grid Import (27kWh))

Milestones & Info:

103kWh to Eddi for June (new config - only using gas to heat water in the evening instead of morning - so if eddi has been active, no gas used)

No import on 15 days

Passed 9MWh since install (Oct'21), and 3MWh for 2023

2023 - Monthly PV Savings :: Expected FIT €108.24 + Money Saved on Energy from PV :: €93.38 :: Total €201.62 for June. (FIT@0.24c/kWh, AvgUnitCstSaving@0.23c/kWh)

2023 - Annual PV Saving progress :: (Jan 49.41, Feb 87.25, Mar 92.66, Apr 138.62, May 202.72, June 201.62) = €772.28

2023 - Annual FIT totals :: (31 Feb, 112 Mar, 215 Apr, 464 May, 451kWh June) :: Cumulating FIT €305.52 :: FIT paid in June €125.59

2022 - Last Year June :: Generation 764kWh, Consumption 408kWh

2022 - Annually Saved with PV = €809.39 + FIT below

2022 - Expected FIT since Feb 15th'22 €595.68* :: (Feb'22-Jan'23: Total 2482KWh) - FIT paid as of start of Feb'23 €581.49 (possibly includes 12KWh exported Jan'23)

celtic_oz

6.2Kwp Monaghan

garbanzo

Over ten months on the Solar trail now. Figures are in for the month of June from a 4Kw system on an even East : West split. Based in South Dublin. No battery. 5kW inverter:

• Total generated: 509.58 kWh
• Highest day:  3rd  25.56 kWh
• Lowest day: 23rd  8.96 kWh

That’s just up by two kWh from what we generated over the entire month of May! The movement through the seasons continues to be really evident and we are moving nicely through the peak generation period. 

In other good news, we also got a payment from SSE Airtricity of around €160.00 during June as part of the Clean Export Guarantee. Nice to see that land into the account. 

25kWh or so seems to be the maximum daily generation we are getting from our system. We got that consistently during those amazingly sunny days we had in early June. 

I still plan to do a one year write up in August, to summarise our experience. Will have the full year’s data from my App around 7th August. 

Cheers

g

rameire

Total Generation June: 501.00 kWh

Highest Day: 5th 25kWh

Lowest Day: 30th 5.6kWh

Annual Yield: 1912kWh

Total Yield: 2177kWh - 8 months in.

Ginger83

910kWh generated for June

8kwp 4.8SE/3.2NW Cavan

ECO_Mental

867 kWh on my 6.1 kWp system just south of Cork City

Used 57% of it, was much better than June 22 and you can see form the graph and I was way over my predicted

hick

Dublin Rathfarnham

house is SW facing 5.3kW installed 10kW battery, shallow pitch and double hip roof 2 strings (8+6)

June 692kW generated 261kW exported [July 701KW v 375kW export]

33kW imported (mostly as I forgot to turn off charging for the 1st 5 days)

best day June 13 @ 34kW, only breached 30kW on 2 days

still waiting to beat last August which was 1.16mW

end of this month I will be able to start proper PY comparisons

garo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120664437#Comment_120664437

4.8kW EW Dublin. 20kWh DIY battery

June2023 (kWh):

Production: 637.7 (560 predicted, 621.1 last year)

Consumption: 589.9

Import: 45 (25d, 20n)

Export: 86.6

Best day: 14th: 31.7

Worst day: 27th: 9.3

fuse

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120805497#Comment_120805497

You charging an EV? Seems a large import with such a big battery otherwise?

irishchris

June 23 - 9.9kwp S/SW

Generated: 1198

Imported: 5.2 kwh

Consumed: 457

Exported: 741 kWh (fit=€185)

ColemanY2K

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120816414#Comment_120816414

Impressive numbers. Were you away on holidays given the large export or do you normally consume circa 500kWh pm?

irishchris

Normally consume in or around those numbers in summer

DC999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120816582#Comment_120816582

We only used 330kWh last month between gaff (excluding cooking) and including car. That just usage, not what solar produced. It's lowest usage ever I expect. Didn't use car much.

Best unit rate of electricity is no unit rate bought :)

bobburns007

That is very impressive ECO MENTAL, what was your projected production for June ?

I have a 6.8 kwh system here in mid cork north of macroom. I generated 792 kw and the projected was 720 kw.

bobburns007

I have a 6.08 kwh system, not 6.8kwh. Sorry 😞

championc

July Stats

Generation – 341.85 kWh
4.0kWp N  - 385.0 kWh
Consumed  - 211.93 kWh
Import   – 8.36 kWh
Export   – 292.43 kWh
Eddi    - 30.4 kWh
Zappi   - 90.5 kWh

Meter Readings 06912 (01183 Day - up 2 / 05729 Night - up 0) - Gas 7103(up 16)

Totals so far:

2.7kWp (S) + 1.2kWp on shed, 20kWh battery, 22 deg Slope, Sth Dublin

Month    |   2020 |   2021 |   2022 |   2023 |
---------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
January  |     75 |     56 |     81 |     76 |
February |    122 |    142 |    111 |    134 |
March    |    200 |    269 |    370 |    245 |
April    |    279 |    373 |    372 |    320 |
May      |    396 |    430 |    445 |    449 |
June     |    264 |    425 |    425 |    341 |
July     |    261 |    387 |    407 |        |
August   |    254 |    264 |    435 |        |
September|    268 |    248 |    242 |        |
October  |    151 |    185 |    221 |        |
November |     90 |     78 |     96 |        |
December |     56 |     52 |     55 |        |
---------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
Total    |   2.41 |   2.90 |   4.61 |   1.90 |

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4.0kWp (N) 

Month    |   2023 |
---------+--------+
January  |        |
February |        |
March    |        |
April    |        |
May      |        |
June     |    441 |
July     |    385 |
August   |        |
September|        |
October  |        |
November |        |
December |        |
---------+--------+
Total    |   0.83 |

curioustony

For a very wet July, the overall results are OK. Better than April (446.2kWh)

Some expensive electricity purchase needed this month😖

Excluding PSO, I will need to pay for electricity this month (using inverter data) 🤔

And the HDF estimate mostly agrees

Eggs For Dinner

12 panels, 4.35 system, South facing, no battery

micks_address

Almost 200kwh down on June which was extraordinary so not to bad considering all the wet days

jkforde

717kwh compared to 909kwh in June so broadly in line with the others; 34% exported mainly due to being away from the house for extended periods (CEG (deemed for now) to the partial rescue!)

creativedrinker

South facing 2.46kw system in north Dublin got 232kw for july

big_show

8.4Kw in the north west (2.5Kw E, 2.5Kw S, 3.4Kw W)

857Kwh for July, down from 1066Kwh in June. Which i'm surprised by given how rainy and overcast the month was!

eclipsechaser

1111kWh for July from a 10.4kWp and 6kW inverter pointed south in south Dublin. June was 1280kWh. I'm surprised there wasn't more of a drop-off but I guess the over-spec kept the numbers more steady than most.

paulbok

6.84kWp south facing, Roscommon. 4.8kw battery.

Jul 2023

756kWh generation (last July was 765, but don't remember the weather being as sh1te as this summer)

Total consumption 691kWh.

118.1kWh to Eddi (mostly using immersion for HW during the summer, that's another 11l of oil saved)

200 kWh exported

89kWh imported (no day/night meter)

35kWh generated best day (5th & 25th)

7.5kWh generated worst day (8th)

irishchris

Generation down on June.

Generation: 999 kWh

Import: 7.7kwh -- €3.52

Export: 498kwh -- €124.50

Mr Q

955kWh for me in July. 4kWp East and 4kWp West.

Imported 11kWh which is my lowest month yet, still adjusting settings.

All electric house and an EV doing about 2,000km a month.

301kWh exported.

ELM327

701kWh from 8.2kWp SSE array. minimal (sub 10kWh) export, leaving my total export for the year ending 9th Sep 22-8th Sep 23 to date to 850kWh.

Poor for July and far off May and June production. June was just at the 1mwh mark for comparison. Average of 22.5kWh per day, more than enough to leave me off grid for the month except some night time charging of EVs, but there was one unexpected bad weather day after another bad day and I ended up using some day rate.

jasgrif11

July stats. Ran 2 x discharge/charge cycles in the battery after replacing BMS (40kWh battery)