Category: solar
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Solar Update 30MWh…!!!
One hundred and four months into the journey and less than halfway through the life of the FIT contract and we passed another milestone. Since December 2013 – wow that feels a long time ago now – we have generated thirty MegaWattHours of electricity using our 4kWp roof mounted solar array. We will certainly have…
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Solar Catch Up
I haven’t waffled about the solar roof for a long time. It’s easily forgotten, just ‘being there’ on the roof and causing me no worries except for the occasional meter reading and BACS bank payment. I recently pointed someone to my solar pages – thereby doubling my readership overnight! They were considering installing solar on…
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Soaking the Solar
Spring comes and with it the onset of solar generation… But the panels have been up more than three years now and it shows. Today, they got a quick pre-summer wash down by a man in a van with a tank full of specially clever water and a long brush. I noticed his advert on…
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Checking the costs
Just had the six monthly gas and electricity bills in, and it’s an opportunity to compare usage now with pre-solar. Back in 2013, I calculated our consumption as 6300kWh for electricity and 15000kWh for gas. In 2013 that equated to about £1600 per annum in total. With these bills I am shown that we are still…
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Solar Eclipse v Solar PV
I just noticed this on the solar pv readout. Can you guess what time the solar eclipse was where we are? At 09h30 we troughed at 74.7w…
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The Sunshine Year
So, we’re here at last. One year (and, if I’m being pedantic, a little bit) since we had the solar panels fitted to the west-facing roof of our house in Charfield, in the west of England. The roof was actually fitted at the start of December 2013, but I don’t think I’m going to worry…
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A little bit of Solar
Solar, like wind, is never going to provide all the power we are used to. We need the other generation if we are to continue the path of insatiable demand. It would be fair to suggest the current government, like the previous one, has largely failed to establish a sustainable energy policy. Perhaps in part…
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Samhain Sunshine
And so we come to Samhain (Or Halloween if you’re into pumpkin soup and doorknockers…) A time of reflection on the year now ending (ending if you’re following a nature path like paganism, Druidry etc… otherwise, well, back to spooky wooo.) Folk say the veil between the worlds is thinner at this time, although I’ve never found…
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September Sunshine
Aren’t you bored by this monthly nonsense yet? It’s clear solar is a viable domestic proposition, but I suppose you won’t be told until I have the entire year mapped out in detail… heh, no, me neither. September turned out to be dry and warm – England had about a fifth of the rain it…
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Solar Forage, August 14
The forage frenzy continues unabated! As the summer moves inexorably toward equinox and the birth of autumn, the newly purchased (solar powered) freezer is full of cooking apples, raspberries, blackberries and pretty much anything that can be frozen for laters… There are runner beans and broad beans and sliced and diced courgettes in the other…
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