Daily pv production

9.3 yesterday 1.3 today some difference!

10.3 yesterday, 0.7 today!

1.1kwh today not great haha

Such an up and down month. Last 4 days only yielded 8.4kWh, less than Friday at 8.6kWh. then there was Thursday better than all those 5 days at 17.5kWh.

Still, it's covering just under 25% of consumption for the month.

four days in a row now below 2kWh

Today 3kwh

Month of Jan 97wkh

I think Jan will beat Dec (114)

4wkp SSE in Co Meath

A decent 11.1kWh from 6.84kW (@200° 🧭) array yesterday.

Need 52kWh from the remaining 6 days of Jan to match December, so not looking likely. But just need 7.5kWh to surpass last January.

Sounds like a battery would help

Congrats on getting setup first off :) I'd say let it settle and see what you can use. There's a fair learning curve in terms of when you use power and when it's available when you first get solar. I'm only live since end of the summer and while I knew how much kWh we used per year, I was surprised to see the daily and weekly spread of that. So look at the inverter stats.

And you've an Eddi that can send the excess to the water tank. So that's your battery. You could send all the excess to the HWT for now until you find your feet with it. Then the excess isn't going back to the grid. You'll get FIT from the date the NC6 form is registered. Might take a while to appear as a credit on the bill, but will make it there.

Then you can see what else you could turn on to use it, like the washing machine.

An EV in the driveway will soak up excess once it gets above 1.4kW (which the Zappi and others need, though it can pull the balance from the grid if needed). I've some low watt electric rads plugged in so they use the solar, and means the gas heating is needed less.

There's be days with your 5.6kWp that you get 1kWh for the whole day - cloudy or rainy days winter days. Write those days off and expect nothing for solar. Everything is a bonus on those days.

First full day, 18.2kwh from 8.69kWp south facing. I never anticipated that so much could be generated in January. And the sun didn't appear till 11.20.

16! And large panels at that. We got 5, yes a whopping 5 on the rear and 4 on the side hipped roof. 345W panels.

Hi DC999, thanks for welcoming me to the solar PV adventure. Its great that people are so interested and willing to share their advice on here. Of course its not a one way street and yesterday stayed cloudy all day and we only recovered 2.3kWh for the full 24 hour period. I did run a dehumidifier for two hours at 250 watts through yesterday afternoon and solar electricity ran it and the rest of the domestic baseload. Despite the reduced solar yield yesterday we still produced more than our total electricity use (1.13kwh) for the same period (We use gas for our cooking and heat the house and hot water using an oil boiler, so our electricity demand can be quite low).

I'm hoping the sun makes an appearance today as I've the dishwasher programmed to come on in 3 hours time to try and capture some of the anticipated solar yield forecasted by met eireann today!

That is reassuring to hear. Thankfully, despite opting for a grid tied set up I asked the installer to install a hybrid inverter as I felt we would rue not having the option to install a battery down the line. I'm not in a rush to do so yet. I'd like to monitor it for a while and as well see how we perform as regards FIT savings / credit on our electricity account with EI.

We have a smart meter installed but we are still signed up to a 24 hour standard rate "non-smart" contract with EI. If there is a delay getting the NC6 form submitted and approved I do hope we can still recoup the value of exported electricity we have produced to date rather than having it given back to the grid free of charge I hope that doesn't come across as too greedy! Do you know if this is the case?

They defintely don't backdate - I got screwed by ESBN for "losing my nc6" according to my installer.

I am on Deemed export BC im not using a SM. I assume if you dont opt-in for SM then u are ALSO on Deemed/fixed FIT rate. IE all that extra units is not going to get u any money. Then you are better to increase your self-usage of daylight! @Granolite

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To: Network Services Bureau (ESB Networks) <networkservicesbureau@esb.ie>

These are the email address i sent to and received a reply from. No point pinging EI - they wont confirm anything.

Things are improving in Dublin.

11kwh so far today. Not much left in it today I think.

281kwh so far for January. Thats an average of over 10kwh per day for January so far with a few days over 20kwh.

Average for Dec was just over 7kwh per day.