April 2010

[billi]

Not bad for an intermittent energy source.

   

I have no data logger , or hard to tell the real production ability of my PV  in times of good weather  , cause when battery is full or nearly full, PV input is reduced by the chargecontroller ....

I am thinking of activating a water pump to store that wasted energy now in my stored  Hydro idea ....

But April was great for solar power 100 % of our off grid needs covered by the PV , without activating the stored hydro scheme     , should ask my neighbour if he wants some KWH 

Billi

[desperate]

Like the rest of you we have had a very productive April, only one occasion yesterday morning when we needed gasser power to top up the hot water for about 20 mins. Aw shucks was hoping to make it 100% solar powered month. Mind you we have had 9 days at or similar to below and on 7 days we exported heat to next door.

Desperate

[JohnS]

April has been my first month of generating solar PV.

2.1 kWp system producing 257 kWh or 8.57 kWh per day or 4.1 kWh per day per kWp if my arithmetic is correct.. 

Seems a good start to me but I wonder how much others have achieved.  I have slight morning shading issues and face about 20 degrees west of south in London.

John

[wookey]

298kWh from a 2.9kW system here (Cambridge). It has been a very fine April. Generated our first Megawatt-hour today :-)

[Iain]

Hi
276kwh from a 1.98(S.West) so very pleased. Hot water only needed the boiler on one day.
Iain

[langstroth2]

April 2010 - 25 days with no boiler input needed, and only 2 days where boiler provided most of the heat input.
April 2009 - 21 days with no boiler input needed, 8 days where boiler provided most of the heat input.