Solar Data for Feb & March 2015

I've now loaded the data for Feb and March 2015. Both fairly average months

http://solar-panels-review.321web.co.uk/yearly-solar-panel-stats.php

No snow this year so no loss of production from panels being covered

http://solar-panels-review.321web.co.uk/yearly-solar-panel-stats.php

Solar Data January 2015

Sorry folks for the delayed service but the solar panel data for January 2015 has now been loaded.

http://solar-panels-review.321web.co.uk/yearly-solar-panel-stats.php

We've not had any snow this year but January 2015 has only just matched January 2012 when we did have snow settled on the panels.

We generated 112kWh of electricity in January, just below the 120kWh we got last year.

FIT Rates - New Feed in Tariff Rates from April 2015

The Feed In Tariff Rates (FIT) are uprated every year in line with inflation (Retail Price Index, RPI measure) and the increase is based on the RPI figure for the previous December and applied in the April the following year.

In December 2014 the RPI inflation rate was 1.6%, dropping from 2% the previous month.

This means that the FIT Feed in Tariff payments will be increased by 1.6% as of April 2015. 

The current FIT rate is 48.07p per kWh generated so the new rate in April 2015 will be 48.84p per kWh. The existing export rate is 3.39p per kWh so the new rate from April 2015 will rise to 3.44p per kWh.

Other FIT rates apply to solar panels installed from March 2012. The Feed in tariff rates above apply to those solar panels installed prior to March 2012.

Main FIT rate from April 2015 will be 48.84p per kWh

Export FIT rate in April 2015 will be 3.44p per kWh

FIT Rates from April 2015

2014 Best Solar Output Electricty from Our PV Solar Panels

2014 has proved to be our best year so far for solar electricity generated from our PV solar panels.

The total generated for the whole year was 3382kWh which substantially beats previous years. Even December came in at 124kWh compared to a previous maximum of 103kWh in 2011.

You can view the full breakdown of the stats at the link below.

Kent UK Solar Power generation

2014 Best Solar Output Year

Solar Panels Three Years On

Our solar panels have now been installed for exactly 3 years.

Over that time they've now generated 9588kWh of electricity - this would have been nearer 9800 kWh due to an inverter fault in 2012 that lost around 200kWh of generation being produced.

You can see how this generation is broken down by month and year here

Solar Panels Three Years On

Solar PV kWh generation each month

You can find out the amount of Solar PV electricity we have generated as kwh generation each month on our Solar PV website

http://solar-panels-review.321web.co.uk/monthly-pv-solar-panel-generation.php





Solar PV kWh generation each month

The kWh amount of solar PV electricity generated each month varies massively across the year with summer running at around 4 times the amount in winter. The amount during each day varies as well with the peak around midday.



kWh amount of solar PV electricity generated each day

October 2014 Sunny Boy Data Loaded

The data from our Sunny Boy inverter for October 2014 has now been uploaded to the website. As of next month we will start to have 4 years worth of data to compare as our solar panels were installed in November 2011.

View Annual Solar PV panel output in Kent UK

2014 has been very mild so far, I wonder how the winter will compare to last year when we didn't have more than one night of frost over the whole winter period.

October 2014 Sunny Boy Data Loaded