April Solar Stats
Here are our home Solar stats for the month of April 2024 which shows what we produced and where it went, April has been a pretty disappointing month weather wise here and the temperature is dropping by the day!
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Lots of Cloud did not help either but sometimes you get what you are given!
After an Excellent February of being 92% self powered that dropped in March to 82%, for April that number dropped again to 67% 🤔😞
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In March we imported 16.3 kWh and due to the crap weather in April that number went up considerably to 200 kWh, this would work a lot better if i could control the weather 🤔
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We generated 634 kWh in March which was ok but once again that dropped for April - 486 kWh, i do want to add to my existing count of solar panels with another 6 to give me 18 - would also need to buy a bigger inverter than the current 5 kWh we have.
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These graphs show the powerwall battery and where its power comes from and where is discharges that power to, incoming solar outgoing house.
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Here are the last 6️⃣months to catch you up on the action.
- https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@kiwiscanfly/october-solar-stats
- https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@kiwiscanfly/september-solar-stats
- https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@kiwiscanfly/november-solar-stats
- https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@kiwiscanfly/december-solar-stats
- https://steemit.com/steemexclusive/@kiwiscanfly/january-solar-stats
- https://steemit.com/hive-108686/@kiwiscanfly/february-march-solar-stats
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Hi Goodmorning, hope you are having a good sun over there to shine on those flashy panels...? 😁
I also, wants to find out if you would be interested to join a team of curators (solar house) for July...?
A team of 3 people.
Hey
We have had a little sun but manly cloudy & lots of rain.
Not sure my current work schedule will give me much time, if i knew i wouldn't be working for a month i would be keen...
But at this stage thanks for the offer but i will have decline at this point in time
Looks like we are having the same weather condition..., it's same here. But two days ago,the sun was almost tearing my panels.
Better days ahead!
But at this stage thanks for the offer but i will have decline at this point in time
It's okay, no problem. I'll see how I can fix this hopefully.
Work...Rest...Have some fun with smuge!
12 panels is good. What power output is each panel rated at?
Do you have much spare roof capacity for more? I guess north facing is optimal in New Zealand?
Yep i have more room on my roof for more panels
Each panel is 405W
I can understand the feelings when stuffs like this happens. But the good thing is...., atleast you were able to generate power no matter how small in April.
I usually have this experience especially during the rainy season. Infact, last year, I had to reduce my power consumption to reserve the generated consumable power.
Now that one of my battery is weak, I am even more technical in power management till I buy replace the battery.
Good moves!
Was your panels 400watts...?
What inverter size are you looking at upgrading it to?
Hey
Panels are 405W and looking at a 10 kWh new inverter to allow for further panels to be added
Okay...450watt is nice...
You would have a quick charging process in your system then.
10kwh is a big systerm. I wish you all the best.
Do you get a decent return for exporting to the grid? We've got a cool tariff here where I charge my battery between 2am and 5am really cheaply and sell everything I produce throughout the day for more than I pay to charge. If I felt like it, I could fully discharge my battery between 4pm and 7pm but I'd probably screw it up and end up importing between 4pm and 7pm for mega dollar bucks.
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When we send to the grid we get 0.19 per kWh
Buying it back is 0.22 per kWh
That's quite a nice "margin". Does anybody offer a PV friendly tariff like we have here?
So I import overnight to charge my battery for 15.18p and everything I generate throughout the day either gets used or exported at 15.65p or 25.94p.
It's very cool and brings me joy 😀
How much battery capacity do you have?
10kWh batter on a 4kW system... We've got a SolarEdge Inverter so added on their Battery. It's an absolute beast!
Have you got Solar panels too?
Yes, just been installing some recently.
But a dull, wet Welsh weather day so not much solar action today ☹️
I love ours. They’ve saved us an absolute fortune already. What size system do you have and do you have battery storage too?
It’s funny how well you’ll know the weather now. Ours were installed in April and I hadn’t realised how sunny April generally is… until this year!
Just installed a dozen 415W panels. Good time of the year with even dull days filling up the batteries quickly now.
Jajajja leyendo estos comentarios me causa gracia que dice que es un día aburrido y húmedo, pero así son los días cuando hay lluvia y se tienen paneles solares.
No tengo paneles pero desde que veo al amigo kiwis y al amigo ubongudofot me llama la atención y me pregunto ¿ Será que me sale muy costoso implementar esto en mi hogar? En Venezuela sufrimos mucho con la electricidad hay días enteros que nos quitan el servicio y lo devuelven en las noches poro que paso madrugadas escribiendo para aprovechar, y pienso que pudiera ser la única en mi localidad con energía solar y hasta poder ayudar en una escuela y un ambulatorio que están en mi calle.
Pero esto es un camino súper largo 🥵.
Me alegra que usted ya esté viviendo la experiencia de los paneles solares y deseo que lleguen pronto los días de mucho sol .
Un abrazo querido amigo @pennsif
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Dear, Looking at your solar power generation graph for April, it seems that the power generation is not as you expected. Depending on the weather you may not have the expected power generation in some months. But you got good performance from solar in previous months. All types of power plants have some disadvantages. The downside of solar is the weather. You have a much better knowledge of solar graphs and power generation than I do. I really enjoy reading your writing.
Hola mi bello amigo 😻
Jajajja todos quisiéramos controlar el clima pero eso es solo poder de nuestro creador jejeje
Sin embargo veo que como todo los resultados varían de un mes a otro, con la llegada de los días fríos y nublados se produce menos energía pero disfruta de cada día con sus peculiares características.
Algún día tendré paneles solares para dejar de sufrir por las fallas eléctricas aquí en Venezuela
That's the reason i wanted solar panels to have some control over energy needs
have a good day