28th Month
Dublin - Lucan - February 24 - 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: 227kWh (198kWh self use (inc. battery), 29kWh to grid)
Best Day: Feb 26th - 17.5kWh
Worst Days: Feb 5th & 8th - 1.3kWh
Total Consumption: 452kWh (43% Solar: 57% Grid Import (258kWh))
Milestones & Info:
Last Year Feb 2023 :: Generation 252kWh, Consumption 393kWh
37kWh to Eddi for February
12MWh surpassed since install.
2024 - Monthly PV Savings :: Expected FIT €6.96 + Money Saved on Energy from PV :: €69.30 :: Total €76.26 for Feb. (FIT@0.24c/kWh, AvgUnitCstSaving@0.35c/kWh)
2024 - Annual PV Saving progress :: (Jan 54.79, Feb 76.26) = €131.05 Total saved/earned due to PV in 2024.
Yeah, I thought mine was broken when the 1st winter hit :) E/W suffers in winter. And my W is actually NW so it goes to sleep until around about now from late Sept.
As expected Jan & Feb were very poor (very bad shading) but there are signs of hope. Sun is getting higher and suspect in the next few weeks should get fully above the trees behind the house meaning April onwards we should be back in business and might get closer to the PVGIS predictions.
My Setup:
7.74kW (18x 430w panels) 9 panels South / 9 panels West in North Waterford, roof mounted 40°, 5kW Huawei Inverter with No Battery
January
Prediction 166kWh
Actual Generation 75.05kWh (45% of predicted)
Total Consumption 973.13 kWh (8.1% Solar / 91.9% Grid)
PV Consumed 73.62 kWh
Imported from Grid 899.51 kWh
Exported to Grid 1.43 kWh
Eddi Usage 5.6 kWh
Wallbox EV Charger 206.35 kWh (0.51 kWh Solar / 205.84 kWh Grid import) [0.2% Green]
Best Day 30th Jan - 5.42 kWh
Worst Day 1st Jan - 0.89 kWh
February
Prediction 301 kWh
Actual Generation 185.64 kWh (62% of predicted)
Total Consumption 824.16 kWh (22.3% Solar / 77.7% Grid)
PV Consumed 173.90 kWh
Imported from Grid 650.26 kWh
Exported to Grid 11.74 kWh
Eddi Usage 37.3 kWh
Wallbox EV Charger 119.93 kWh (13.61 kWh Solar / 106.32 kWh Grid import) [11.3% Green]
Best Day 26th Feb- 16.11 kWh
Worst Day 6th Feb - 1.27 kWh
356kWh on my 6.1kWp system, above last year and above PVGIS.
Roll on March this is where it really ramps up. Lets hope we get a March '22...remember that...I put out 774kWh in March 22 😎
4.7kWp system 3.4kWp east 1.3kWp West
Solar - 133.38 kWh Forecast 136.86
To Home 59.47kWh To Battery 17.28kWh To Grid 56.63kWh
Best day 26th of Feb 10.76kWh
Worst day 8th of Feb 0.88kWh
Jan 77.18 Feb 133.38
Total production for this year 210.56 kWh
Total production forecast this for year 209.58kWh
3.7 east 3.7 west ,(7.4) Mayo
204.8 KwH total
Best day 26th with 13.6KwH
Worst day 02nd with 2.4KwH
For February:
308kWh generated - 6.72kW system facing ESE in South Dublin.
485kWh consumed.
In February, self-used 43.5% of electricity generated and fed in the other 173kWh (no battery).
Since initial installation on March 7 2023, a total of 6.1MWh generated, 4.13MWh fed to grid, with a self-use ratio of 32.46%.
6.5 system South facing Limerick
281.49 KwH total - Last year 296.41
Best day 26th with 26.32KwH
Worst day 6th with 2.13KwH
Total Consumption: 675.9kWh - includes charging EV
Exported 94.4
February Stats - Sth Dublin
Generation – 144.05 kWh 4.0kWp N - 65.5 kWh Consumed - 448.10 kWh Import – 551.10 kWh Export – 164.70 kWh Eddi - 69.3 kWh Zappi - 92.6 kWh
Meter Readings 02087 (H+|1 2574 - up 585 / H+|2 89 - up 4 / H+|3 13 - up 1 / H- 753 - up 207) - Gas 7634 (up 84)
Another month on Pinergy - Imported 551 @ 5c & 5 @ 40c / Exported 164 @ 25c - Cost -€15 (credit). About a week of dumping excess pre-2am
Totals so far:
2.7kWp main roof + 1.2kWp on shed (S) Month | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ---------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ January | 75 | 56 | 81 | 76 | 71 | February | 122 | 142 | 111 | 134 | 144 | 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 | 0.71 |
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4.0 on main roof (N) Month | 2023 | 2024 | ---------+--------+--------+ January | | 27 | February | | 65 | March | | | April | | | May | | | June | 441 | | July | 385 | | August | 301 | | September| 163 | | October | 83 | | November | 38 | | December | 24 | | ---------+--------+--------+ Total | 1.61 | 0.92 |
Pinergy's export rate is 25c unless you have a special rate with them. VAT isn't added to the rate
682kwh for March. Delighted with the new array. Haven't used the stove since February 16th, mostly electric heating since then.
231kwh produced. 97kwh sold back to the grid. Not too bad. Hopefully things improve over the coming months.
442 kWh produced
295 kWh exported
All electric house, the bill for the month has come to €56.41
while i'm happy the bill is small PVGIS on the other hand had estimated March production to be 620 kWh so a significant undershoot. i suspect it could be to do with a shady issue i have with an esb pole which would take 6 or more optimisers to resolve but only comes into play after 4pm. not sure if its the issue or if it is if its worth paying hundreds of euro to resolve.
I dunno I'd be more inclined to think we just had an extremely bad start to March that PVGIS hadn't estimated for.
This march was woeful. Look at any farming news sites, loads still have stock in because ground can't travel. Very little planting done too - and the weather has been that bad, there has been no " maybe" days
Worse than last march which was also bad
451KWh from a 6.46KWp system. SSW facing Meath.
It also depends where you are, I'm only down 6.5% on last year in the midlands.
388 kWh for March and just a word of thanks for the boards poster for this site to be able to track production. This is from a 7.2 kWh system installed mid February 2022.
Exactly, I'm up 10% on last March. East Cork.
February and March totals… 7.2kwp split 4/3 south east/north west.
Installed 6th of March. Not sure what to make of it all.
2 PHEVs, AtoW heatpump and work from home 4 days a week
As others have posted, I'm also down on expected PVGIS, but this is down to the fact that March this year was pretty woeful barring the last 4-5 days. March is usually decent enough. Long time posters still speak in hushed tones of the fabled March 2022 - will we see it's like again? :-)
While I'm "up" on last year by 14%, end of March last year I added 3 new panels (Kwp increased 19%) so in real terms I'm down year-on-year as well as failing to make PVGIS by 7-8%.
If it wasn't for the last 5 days I'd have been well off. Also, I looked at the curves of solar production, and so far this year, there's not been 1 full day of solid sunshine. I mean two days in March were sub 1Kwhr!! That's pretty bad for March. Lots of days of it having a nice smooth curve until about lunchtime, and then the clouds roll in from the Dublin mountains and lurk about like a bad smell.
Sadly tomorrow Apr 1st is going to be crap also - and no that's not a April fools joke. My forecast algorithm has me generating ~3Kwhr. Surely it can't be that low?!
286 kWh produced from a 4.1kwp roof mounted direct south facing array in Donegal. Installer prediction was 300.
A full 3 calendar years on this journey now, with a total yield of 12,395.10 kWh
Crappy March, but the last few days helped it to just pip last year. Not a patch on '22.
PV & feed going in the correct direction, and the expensive buy is being squeezed.
There were a couple of days where the net cost was negative. Bit frustrating my inverter does not allow me to dump before the cheap rate.
There was a couple of days where the Pinergy cooline plan was cheaper, on the whole for me (battery size, and discharge to grid challenge), I'm still on the correct plan. May should see the credit increase.
421kWh for march 24. Really bad start to March, but slowly improved.
PVGIS predicted 440kWh surprised we came this close as it was looking horrible until the last week.
March was looking very poor but thankfully the last week has pulled things up a bit.
South Roscommon, 8.16Kwp, facing 210° at 35°, 9.6kWh battery
Total generation 552.6kWh (prediction at 591kWh, last year 569.30kWh)
Energy from Grid 855kWh
Exported to Grid 362kWh
To the Battery 188.8kWh
From the Battery 178.50kWh
Best day 30th with 39.30kWh
Worst day 9th with 3.9kWh
Energy exported would have generated €86.88 at Energia FIT rate.
Have a new array facing 120° at about 25° angle connected for the last few days and should have full monitoring set up for April. According to the myenergi app we generated 588kWh in total so the new array accounted for 35kWh since going live.
361.5 Kwh total (377.1 last year)
Best day 20th with 20.9KwH
Worst day 21st with 3.1Kw
East Mayo, 11.2Kwp, facing SE/SW 30kWh battery
Total Generation 665kWh
Load 1328kWh
Energy from Grid @ 5c/kW 1217kWh
Exported to Grid @ 25c/kW 396kWh
To the Battery 715kWh
From the Battery 677kWh
Total Generation : 303.8 kWh
Total Exported: 316.68 kWh ( I expect the ESBN report to be a little lower)
Total Imported: 366.91 kWh (95%+ will be a 5.45cent)
All in all I'm expecting my bill for the month to be ~€25 in credit.
Solar output - 223.15 kWh Forecast 278
To Home 97.17 kWh To Battery 19.45kWh To Grid 106.53kWh
Best day 22nd of Mar 16.41kWh
Worst day 9th of Mar 0.19kWh
Jan 77.18 Feb 133.38 Mar 223.15
Total production for this year 433.71 kWh
Total production forecast this for year 488.29kWh
March was 55kwh lower than expected
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