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| PV Solar panel performance, daily outputs in Kent UK |
Today has been the best performance so far. Despite an initial rainy start, the day quickly cleared to bright sunshine and the panels started generating from 07:40 this morning at 36W, giving a total output for the day of 8.176kWh. For a day in late November this seems to be a very good performance. So far the output recorded on the generation meter has totalled 32.67kWh in just 6 days, ranging from a low of 0.98kWh to todays 8.176kWh.
The maximum peak output at any one point during the day has been 2kW. Again this was achieved today, the highest previous output from our solar panels was 1.5kW which was reached on a number of days this week.
In the 6 days so far we have earnt the grand total of £14 in FIT payments - not a bad start for one of the worst performing months of the year for solar!
It is my intention to publish each month the performance of our solar panels, 3.01kWp from 14 Sungrid 215W panels with SMA Sunny Boy 3000HF inverter to give an indication of what can be achieved as an output from solar panels in Kent UK. Any comparisons with other panels in the UK would be useful, two friends also have now installed solar panels in the local area so I will endeavour to provide figures to compare the different setups and output performance achieved.
I installed 16 x 245KW Suntech solar PV panels on 17th October 2011, (3.92 KW system)so far today has provided best generation with 23.118 KWh earning £10.01, peaking at 3.23 KW/h at 12.00 noon. I live in Prestwick Ayrshire. Total generated is 628.2KWh on the generation meter. 11.789 Kilograms of Co2 was saved.
ReplyDeleteThats a great performance, my system, 16 x 250w Suntellite with Power One inverter has only managed 15kwh so far, fitted in late feb 2012 we are south/west facing.
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