[Greenerlife]

187 (most of them yesterday I should imagine - I have a suntan again!   

[Dan]

184 here, seems to have been a good month all over. 

[Sudanpan]

296 for October.


When the PV installers did our original guesstimates they used figures of 5400kw as the expected annual generation of the installation. We are currently just shy of 5000kw and have Nov, Dec, Jan Feb and 20 days in March to complete the year. It will be interesting to see how close we get to that figure.

[cloddopper]

Start year reading  1 Feb  2014       0000
Previous Reading   1 Oct   2014       3008.07    =  796.17  produced
Current Reading    4 Nov   2014       3175.92    =  167.85  produced

We had four hours or so of powercut with glorious sunshine when I could not export energy to the grid . We have had many days of dark & heavy drizzle this last month .

[Zebedee]

Does anyone have or know of an integrated PV system where it all looks like part of a profile roof? I'm in an AONB and about to rebuild an old barn. I don't think panels that stick out would be particularly loved by any of the snooty club round here who live to complain half the time.

[Sudanpan]

I think you can get integrated PV panels now - but I understand it does have a detrimental effect on the panel efficiency as the panel can get too hot. Apparently very sunny, windless days are not as good for PV generation as slightly more overcast days as the temperatures get too high - similarly having panels integrated into the roof will reduce the cooling ventilation effect of having the panels raised off the roof line.
Good luck with the neighbours!

[honeyend]

Does anyone have or know of an integrated PV system where it all looks like part of a profile roof? I'm in an AONB and about to rebuild an old barn. I don't think panels that stick out would be particularly loved by any of the snooty club round here who live to complain half the time.

  We have recently put 9kw solar PV as part of our new build roof, by doing this we saved on the cost of roofing tiles and they are flashed into the rest of the tiles. Unless you are in a conservation area I doubt there is anything your neighbours can do about it, I think mine were a bit taken aback but the panels do not front on to road, we asked the planers and got written confirmation that permission was not needed. Be warned it has taken 3months and £4283  to get a new power supply and they have had to upgrade the transformer. That price does not include the ground works which was another £1500

[cloddopper]

Most of the local new builds done this  last couple of months around Ammanford are all fully integrated flat with the roof lines PV & heating panels . They look good & so long as they last as long as the tiles/slates are designed to last then it's all hunky dory.

[Dan]

Not a good November here, it was mostly 


63 units generated, compared to 163 last November.    I suppose it's the best time of year to have bad months though. 

[Greenerlife]

93 units    and I thought November was warm and sunny this year!  Obviously not.

[Big Light]

84 for us -well down

[regen]

135 kwh in sunny Carmarthenshire!

Regen

[cloddopper]

Start year reading  1 Feb  2014       0000
Reading     1 Oct   2014       3008.07   =  796.17  produced
Reading    4 Nov   2014       3175.92    =  167.85  produced
Reading    2Dec    2014       3257.57    =   81.65   produced

[Sudanpan]

156 kwh for Nov down here in the SW.
Our panels are split equally east west facing and at an elevation degree of 10 degrees - the low level of the sun at this time of year means our generation power hasn't got above 1500 even on the sunniest days.
We are still on to beat the predicted 5400kwh for the year, we have until 16 March 2015 to complete the 12 months 

[Small Farmer]

My production looks like this
2011 3766
2012 3349
2013 3296
2014 3501


from which I can't draw much in the way of conclusions because the pattern for each year has been pretty varied