Yeah. I’ve been generating 40-50 daily since the 22nd May. Exported 210 kWh in the last 5 days alone. We will all be crying when it goes back to normal next week :)
Second month with 0 bill; and we now have 154 euros credit on the electric Ireland account. And it’s only the start of June. System was switched on in mid Feb.
Places like Australia, California etc are living the PV dream and have months of this weather... but they have other issues to contend with.
Still it would be great to live there and have a 8+ kWp system & a big battery you would be self sufficient no probs for most of the year.
I'm not so sure they use any less electricity in some parts. Just theirs is for cooling, not heating. I saw eye watering energy usage on aircon on the DIY Solar Power Forum (diysolarforum.com). Am sure some of this is a throwback to cheaper energy and they are used to having temps as X degrees inside, and maybe they would be fine with it less cold. I'd be in the 'waste not, want not' camp like you :)
Deffo makes sense to have solar and large batteries in those hot places.
Started off looking OK here but clouds have put a stop to that. Ticking along at about 1kW for the past few hours. Unless it picks up in the evening it'll be a sub 20kWh day but probably closer to 15kWh...
29kwh generated already in NW
The 🤬 it is Met, Dublin clouds most day...
30.4 kWh in Donegal today. Just little short of my best of 30.9 at end of May. 12th day after new install and 332 kWh generated in total. System is 4.1 kWp south facing and roof mounted
Graph of the last 4 days (including today in Red). I was out of the country and came back to see this. Nice! New personal record of 56Kwhr for main & shed combined.
Nearly identical production for the 3 days previous to today. (yeah there are three lines in there other than the red one!). Never seen such consistency since I got the panels installed 18 months ago. We'll be talking about June '23 in the same hushed tones as March '22.
Looking ok tomorrow for Dublin too .... then it falls back a little on Thur (but still decent by all accounts)
Another dog 💩 day in Dublin, estimate 50, be lucky to pull half of that
We had a good run 🤣
Drac , still banging over in the west this morning :😉
Belting out the power in the north west too.
Although we had cloud for the first week!
41.6 today from a 7.4 system east west , Mayo
PV1 (east)v PV2 (west)
Another great day in Galway. 55kwh with 486 kwh in the first 8 days of this month already. If only every month was as good
Ah, spotted another reason I have higher daily output this month compared to the past (bar the obvious blue-sky blitz!)
It’s 945am and the E sun is so high in the sky it’s even hitting our W panels that the E sun normally can’t see. OK, production is still small but it’s something unexpected.
Heading for longest day of the year of course - so makes sense it’s higher in the sky. But I never noticed that before.
Hi is it normal productuion (blue graph) from 4.4 Kwh system 11 panels?
Red graph - consumption ..
Looks like cutting at 3Kwh ...
What size inverter?
Sofar 5kW Hybrid Inverter
It's not the inverter clipping so. Maybe post on the trouble shooting thread for better input.
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058101518/solar-pv-hints-tips-troubleshooting#latest
Inverter have two string inputs 3kwh each - and system is made on ONE string - it could be the reason for 3kw limit?
Post on the trouble shooting thread, that's were the tech lads can help.
So today has been awful. Struggling to hit 10kwh!
Same here in Donegal . 11.5 kWh off a 4.1kWp system south facing. Thick cloud cover most of day. Was getting nearly triple this on good days over past fortnight 😢
8.8 kWh from a 3.1 kWp system. Two or three decent hours in the afternoon and evening did most of it.
65.7kWh today in south Dublin. That's a record day.
Today might be my record day. 45.2 generated..7kwp, 4 South east, 3 north west. North county Dublin
Yeah, new record here too. 34.7kWh from 4.8kWp south facing system in Dublin Fingal.
21.9 kWh which is a new record.
3.1 kWp (1.7 S, 1.4 E)
8.9kWp today (prediction was 8.4kWp). Next couple of days look promising:
4kWh system pointed SW in Meath.
8kWh yesterday, not hugely ahead of consumption for the month, forecast mostly crap for the next two weeks.
July officially sucks!
