March 2014

March 2014

The PVGis estimate for our installation for March was 273kWh, it's been a good month with some decent weather and we've actually generated over 283kWh.  So after a poor February a bit of an upturn, hopefully April will continue in this summery vein!

Clifton Solar Generation - ESE facing, 3.84KW system	Installed 21st January 2014
	Actual	Estimated	% of estimate
January 2014	17.43
February 2014	123.84	137	90.39%
March 2014	283.73	273	103.93%
This Month	283.73	272	104.31%
This month daily avg	9.23	8.77	105.21%
	Day	Meter
1-Mar-2014	11.08	152.35
2-Mar-2014	2.49	154.84
3-Mar-2014	11.58	166.42
4-Mar-2014	7.46	173.88
5-Mar-2014	5.72	179.60
6-Mar-2014	1.90	181.5
7-Mar-2014	6.35	187.85
8-Mar-2014	3.32	191.17
9-Mar-2014	14.27	205.44
10-Mar-2014	13.22	218.66
11-Mar-2014	9.43	228.09
12-Mar-2014	6.28	234.37
13-Mar-2014	11.58	245.95
14-Mar-2014	11.91	257.86
15-Mar-2014	8.63	266.49
16-Mar-2014	11.70	278.19
17-Mar-2014	6.81	285
18-Mar-2014	5.45	290.45
19-Mar-2014	11.94	302.39
20-Mar-2014	6.43	308.82
21-Mar-2014	14.59	323.41
22-Mar-2014	11.40	334.81
23-Mar-2014	11.46	346.27
24-Mar-2014	17.93	364.2
25-Mar-2014	2.92	367.12
26-Mar-2014	8.78	375.9
27-Mar-2014	7.96	383.86
28-Mar-2014	9.81	393.67
29-Mar-2014	15.30	408.97
30-Mar-2014	8.54	417.51
31-Mar-2014	7.49	425

Well it's starting off nicely, nice sunny day not renewed my golf subs unfortunately so down to the lotty later.
The estimate for March according to pvGis is twice as much generation as February - 272 kWh so there must be better days on the horizon you'd hope.

24th March - top day 17.93!
25th March - another rubbish day 2.93!
6th March - rubbish day! 1.9?

25th March 4:30ish spoke to a very scottish chap at Scottish Power:
Gave them a call to find out where my FIT application was they said I should be getting the FIT number any time now and that it would be backdated to 2nd Feb when application was received.

Purchased 3 x mechanical timer switches for a tenner and got the boss one of them Air Ram G-Tech hoover things.  The idea being to charge it from 10am to 2pm to use up some of the generated leccy.
Monday 3rd March 2014\

Things that look good about it are that it runs on 22v lithium ion battery for up to 40 minutes which will hopefully be enough.  It weighs about 7lbs which is hopefully not too heavy.  As it runs on battery it means no plugging / unplugging apart from putting it on charge.  It also makes nifty little bricks of dust instead of a bag to empty.  But perhaps the biggest plus is that it's a neat way to store some of the excess leccy we will be generating.  It also comes with a five year warranty and it uses less power in any case.

Am seriously thinking about getting an Intuition system to see how much of the free leccy we're actually consuming and how much we're generating.