November 2023
384 Kwh generated
256kwh exported - €64 FIT
327kwh imported - €24.30
9.86kwp south/south west. Galway
South Roscommon, 8.16Kwp, facing 210° at 35°, 9.6kWh battery
Total generation 316.40kWh (prediction at 292.1kWh, last year 351.5kWh)
Consumed 845.70kWh (62% self use).
Energy from Grid 669kWh
Energy to Grid 120kWh
To the Eddi 64.60kWh
To the Zappi 476.90Wh (mostly now night rate)
To the Battery 210.60kWh
From the Battery 207.70kWh
Best day 3rdwith 23.8kWh
Worst day 22nd with 1.5kWh
Energy exported would have generated €28.80 at Energia FIT rate
That concludes our second full year. Was a poorer year than 2022 with 7511.06kWh generated '23 vs 7945.39kWh for '22 and was a fairly dull summer when compared to last year and it felt it.
6.84kWp south facing, Roscommon. 4.8kw battery.
Nov 2023
259kWh generation - Forecast 258.8kWh - Last year = 268kWh
Total consumption 623kWh.
48.3kWh to Eddi
21 kWh exported
358kWh imported (no day/night meter)
20kWh generated best day (7th)
1.0kWh generated worst day (13th) - power out most of day due to storms, so should have been better. true worst= 1.2kWh, 18th & 23rd
360 kWh from my 6.1 kWp system here in Cork.
25% better than last November and way over the estimate from PVGIS
Novemeber was pretty good really here, had a good few days that were over 20 kWh which is about 50% of my total max summer daily output of around 44 kWh.
25th Month
Dublin - Lucan - November 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: 179Wh (178kWh self use (inc. battery), 1kWh to grid)
Best Day: Nov 7th - 13.7kWh
Worst Day: Nov 26th - 1.0kWh
Total Consumption: 466kWh (38% Solar: 62% Grid Import (291kWh))
Milestones & Info:
Last Year Nov 2022 :: Generation 219kWh, Consumption 420kWh
27kWh to Eddi for November
2023 - Monthly PV Savings :: Expected FIT €0.24 + Money Saved on Energy from PV :: €62.30 :: Total €62.54 for Nov. (FIT@0.24c/kWh, AvgUnitCstSaving@0.35c/kWh*) *Increased Avg Unit Cost Rate as importing more costly units.
2023 - Annual PV Saving progress :: (Jan 49.41, Feb 87.25, Mar 92.66, Apr 138.62, May 202.72, June 201.62, July 159.87, Aug 145.75, Sep 113.61, Oct 71.24, Nov 62.54 ) = €1329.29
2 installations
4.2kWp south facing in Dublin south
PVGIS Forecast: 185kWh
Actual: 183 kWh
6.88kWp south facing Dublin mountains
PVGIS Forecast: 251kWh
Actual: 182kWh
The larger S only produced the same as the smaller S. Do you know why that is?
Are the panels flatter so the lower winter sun reduces the output, or is there a lot more shading at that site? If it's neither, there is something else amiss maybe.
The 2nd larger installation is in the Dublin mountains, so I think it suffers with extra cloud cover and it takes the sun a little longer to emerge in the mornings. I don't think PVGIS takes that into account. I'm looking forward to seeing how it does with the higher sun in the Spring/Summer.
It was only installed on 20th Oct and it did 135kW between then and the month end and the prediction was 365kWh for the entire month.
4.86 kWp system, 2.835kWp south, 2.025kWp west, located in Dublin 15. No battery or Eddi.
139.59kWh produced in November, 59.19kWh consumed, 80.4kWh exported, 177.37kWh imported, total consumption 236.56kWh.
I might just skip checking in at the end of December, such has been the drop off in the last week or two in particular and that likely won't improve until a good bit into next year.....
4.7kWp system 3.4kWp east 1.3kWp West
Solar - 94.34 kWh
To Home 51.80 kWh To Battery 11.62 kWh To Grid 30.92kWh
Best day 3th of November 6.22kWh
Worst day 26th of November0.82kWh
August* 223.60 Sept 298.81 Oct 179.61 Nov94.34
Total production from 16 Aug 796.36 kWh
3.2kWp system, 2.0 SW & 1.2 NE. 125kWh produced (Cork)
Third month on Pinergy - Imported 420 @ 5c & 3 @ 40c / Exported 63 @ 27c - Cost €5.19 (Deemed Export would have been about €12 but Export still worth €17)
November Stats
Generation – 88.81 kWh 4.0kWp N - 37.5 kWh Consumed - 438.32 kWh Import – 423.03 kWh Export – 19.18 kWh Eddi - 40.1 kWh Zappi - 118.9 kWh
Meter Readings 00839 (H+|1 829 - up 431 / H+|2 8 - up 3 / H+|3 1 - up 0 / H- 459 - up 63) - Gas 7315(up 104)
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 | 341 | August | 254 | 264 | 435 | 332 | September| 268 | 248 | 242 | 279 | October | 151 | 185 | 221 | 173 | November | 90 | 78 | 96 | 89 | December | 56 | 52 | 55 | | ---------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ Total | 2.41 | 2.90 | 3.26 | 2.75 |
4.0 (N) ** NEW **
Month | 2023 | ---------+--------+ January | | February | | March | | April | | May | | June | 441 | July | 385 | August | 301 | September| 163 | October | 83 | November | 38 | December | | ---------+--------+ Total | 1.37 |
Your North stats are very interesting. Where are they installed? Main roof? Asking as I assumed the N output would be way less.
Looks like N produced the same as the 3.9kWp strings during the summer months.
Would a shed roof that doesn't get sun act like N? I could diy that and it's the only space I've left.
Alpha ESS changed their API, need to accelerate the android app development. Still a work in progress. But progress :-)
Given how I felt, it is a pleasant surprise how Nov compared with previous years (for me). The bigger battery accounts for the reduction in feed, I think.
Well into my winter shading. My guess is ~40% lost due to trees and low sun. Lower string impacted more.
The buy/use mix continues to lean towards more expensive afternoon/evening electricity
And in terms of real money, still on track for net zero (give the electricity credits)
For November:
224kWh generated - 6.72kW system facing ESE in South Dublin.
400kWh consumed.
In November, self-used 47.79% of electricity generated, and fed in the other 117kWh (no battery).
Since initial installation on March 7 2023, a total of 5.45MWh generated, 3.80MWh fed to grid, 3.22MWh consumed (self generated & imported), with a self-use ratio of 30.28%.
6.2Kwp half SSE,half SSW, Monaghan
190Kwh generated in November, not a great year up here
Yes, spot on. On a crap day, the north generated the same per kWp as a Sth
And yes too, my south shed totally shaded acts like my North.
I actually have the 4 panels on it in parallel, which isn't great really
203 kwh generated
150 kwh self used
53 kwh exported
386 kwh consumed
7.48 KW system , 4.4 SW 3.08 NE , 5KW battery
North Cork
First full month with my system, 4.3Kwh south facing, South Dublin
88Kwh generated.
25.5Kwh exported
It can only get better from here.
55.5 kwh in Cork. Direct sun doesn't even hit them this time of year.
Pretty poor month even considering it was December.
Only managed to get to 90.7% of PVGIS. I was up 12% over last years numbers but considering I added 3 panels last April, which was 22% increase....overall it's down on last year too. I miss those days of 4-5kw pumping in hour after hour.
My shed chipped in with 29.78 kWh so 94Kwh for the month.
126kWh from a 6.45kWp array SSE facing in Meath. A fair bit of shadowing from neighbours trees doesn't help at this time of year.
158 kWh for Dec. from 6.9kwp South facing set up.
95.7kwh from 4kwp south east, 3kw north west.
Mayo 6.6kW array (4.6 SE/ 2.0 NE)
138kWh Dec 2022
85kWh Dec 2023
Total for 2023 was 5303kWh (PVGIS prediction was 4991kWh).
December 2023
170.45kWh generated
6.4kWp South facing in west Dublin
212 kWh on my 6.1 kWp system south facing in Cork just a tickle over my predicted
Total for 2023 was 6,411 kWh which is about 300 kWh over the predicted but 8.5% less than 2022 where I generated 7,010 kWh
Over all excluding May last year, which was outstanding, the year on a whole was poor to average roll on 2024
December Stats
Generation – 43.58 kWh 4.0kWp N - 23.5 kWh Consumed - 523.31 kWh Import – 553.5 kWh Export – 3.56 kWh Eddi - 45.0 kWh Zappi - 152.2 kWh
Meter Readings 01447 (H+|1 1387 - up 558 / H+|2 50 - up 42 / H+|3 9 - up 8 / H- 500 - up 41) - Gas 7429 (up 114)
2.7kWp (S) + 1.2kWp on shed, 20kWh battery, 22 deg Slope, Sth Dublin
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 | 341 | August | 254 | 264 | 435 | 332 | September| 268 | 248 | 242 | 279 | October | 151 | 185 | 221 | 173 | November | 90 | 78 | 96 | 89 | December | 56 | 52 | 55 | 44 | ---------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ Total | 2.41 | 2.90 | 3.26 | 2.80 |
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4.0 (N) ** NEW ** Month | 2023 | ---------+--------+ January | | February | | March | | April | | May | | June | 441 | July | 385 | August | 301 | September| 163 | October | 83 | November | 38 | December | 24 | ---------+--------+ Total | 1.61 |
Solar - 49.09 kWh
To Home 35.22 kWh To Battery 10.33kWh To Grid 3.54kWh
Best day 11th of December 3.39kWh
Worst day 6th of December0.32kWh
August* 223.60 Sept 298.81 Oct 179.61 Nov94.34 Dec 49.09
Total production from 16 Aug 845.45 kWh
AlphaESS had a DNS challenge yesterday. Very frustrating. Can definitely see the merits of a fully local solution. App now in internal testing, and open source.
Not a great December, worst one for me so far, but not by much.
From April 2001, on the upswing now
Lots of expensive electricity used as the battery is not sufficient at this time of the year
The bottom line is I'm still on track for net zero, considering the €450 from the state. €455 in credit, and no payments on my account since I switched in Dec '22.
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