Daily pv production

ParkRunner

Does anyone know if you sign up for one of those plans with free electricity on one of the weekend days what happens with solar electricity produced on those days? Is it all exported?

The price on the other days is pretty extortionate but just wondering what would happen on the “free” day

yankinlk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119750666#Comment_119750666

One thing has nothing to do with the other. If you have PV on Saturday it's still going to produce... but if you have free import that day you just use as much daytime expensive units asyou want. Be sure to check if its capped like unlimited broadband is!

I don't like free saturdays... seems a con to me but also forces bad habits in usage one day a week... does nothing for the environment etc etc

ParkRunner

I guess I won’t be going for that one so, and not many of the other smart plans are too appealing with solar generators trying to max usage during the bright hours

micks_address

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119750722#Comment_119750722

The other problem have with that is who wants to spend Saturday washing and drying clothes? Luckily I work from home a lot so plan to coordinate the washing machine and dishwasher with the sunshine when feasible

DC999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119750849#Comment_119750849

I'd be very sure the energy companies have profiled this - bit like offering unlimited hols in companies and research shows people often take less hols. Or like gym membership. I reckon people hammer it for first X weeks and then drops off to be largely a normal day - or never for me with gym membership :). And as others have said, do you really, really wanna keep all the crappy chores for your weekend? I'll keep doing them during the week thanks while wfh.

I'd +1 @yankinlk that it's not good as doesn't get us to watch + reduce what we use. I could leave all my heaters on all day and have the windows open. Or use the tumble dryer to dry a full weeks clothes (they are a monster on power).

graememk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119750976#Comment_119750976

And it's limited to something like 100kwh a month on Bord gais and a "we'll let you know if you have excessive use" on electric Ireland

yankinlk

So if there are 4 Saturdays a month you can except to harness 25Kwh for free each weekend on average. I agree that its a PITA to try and use that up to any advantage. I would much rather any offer that grants me a cash bonus that i can apply to whatever usage i want.

I got 300 from EI last year... which is not far off 100 units a month at .24 per unit ( i think that was my std rate back then). This was great becasue it didnt require me altering my habits at all - BUT it was to my advantage to make that cash go as long as possible - so load shifting to night rate meant it didnt run out until well into summer.

allinthehead

1.3kwh today🤙 4.8kwp

con747

12 panels 1.725w east, 2.415w south 2.5 kwh.

sligopaul

23.60 on 14th in Sligo from 6.6kw S/SE, 7 and 5 last couple of days, hope to see a bit of sun later today

AckwelFoley

3.7 yesterday

Worst day since installation

.I don't want to talk about it anymore 😕 😪 😢

Will be much more of this now until the new year

THE ALM

3.8 yesterday, pig of a day and I didn't charge the batteries the night before 😭Between yesterday and this morning we had to import 6 units as the production just about covered out base load yesterday.

ELM327

3.7 yesterday here (8.1kWp SSE), after a good couple of days of 10+

Am doing a fair bit of grid shifting.

Ubbquittious

6.8 today, it is actually generating more (in terms of money) now than at the height of the summer due to that stupid 45% price increase

Yesterday was right miserable altogether. Don't think I even got 0.5

Galego

10kwh for me today (4kw south panels).

silver_sky

Forecast was 10.18kWh but actual was a somewhat shocking 18kWh! I managed to use 80% of it which was great.

Gerry

Got to 8.2 today, very good afternoon. used 60% of it.

bullit_dodger

Tomorrow looks decent enough too , for Dublin anyway. Weds though. Howler.

ECO_Mental

A right good day here in Cork yesterday 32.2 kWh on my 6.1 kWp system...only used 11.5% of it though as I was in Work and the missus was away for the day with work as well so no one in the house.

I need to plan my working from home days based on the weather so I can charge the EV and do the washing.

ELM327

After the previouos day's shocking 3.7 - worst so far - yesterday went back up to 11kWh.

My system is all SSE currently and we missed an hour of peak generation with cloud cover, otherwise that 11 would be 15+.

Next year I will have to add some W, NW and more SE panels. Probably in that order

sligopaul

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119759292#Comment_119759292

Mental numbers for this time of year, we generated 11kwh in Sligo with 6.6kwp , good afternoon poor morning, today looking better

ECO_Mental

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119759375#Comment_119759375

Yeah I was quite surprised myself when I checked but we had clear skies here all day bar an hour around lunch time.

The previous day I only generated 1.5 kWh though.....😋 but we had torrential rain the whole day

fuse

14.6kWh generated yesterday.

Think I got the cleanest curves yet since install in Sept. I wanted to see how each of the E/W arrays perform separately (East=blue, west=red, combined=orange) and then see what the total generation is. West array has 6 panels, East has 4.

DownByTheGarden

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119750976#Comment_119750976

Imagine even staying in the house Saturday, never mind washing the clothes :)

Gerry

9.1kw today, really happy with that. mixed morning, great afternoon and 72% self consumed.

I can see 11-12kw being possible in october with clearer skies.

Galego

11.5kwh today. I think I do great in the morning and early afternoon then not much in the late afternoon.

DrPhilG

Best day of the month so far.

20.4kWh

silver_sky

11.1kWh for me today. Not too shabby. Yesterday (17th) was my record for the month at 18kWh.

ELM327

12kWh yesterday, mixed day down here in the (not so) sunny south east.

Today is awful so I don't expect much at all.

Looking at the trailing 7 days from yesterday we broke 10kWh 6 out of 7, i think..

bullit_dodger

Wow - I did say today would be pretty awful, but generating 20watts off 5.3Kwp is about the worst I've seen it at 11am in the 12 months since installation.

20 gaddam watts. Geez!

My shed installation (exactly due south facing) is 2.3Kwp and it's generating.....wait for it...... 7.6W

Good job the automation charged up the battery to 100%