Category: solar
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Windy
I’ve just checked. We do still have solar panels… It’s been a tad windy overnight; not hurricane windy but gusting to around 40-50 mph. Something they don’t mention when you investigate the possibility of solar panels is how they are affected by the wind. It’s obvious, of course, but no matter how well they are…
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Sipping on Sunshine
Sipping very, very gently, so as not to disturb his winter slumber… Cold grey days and cold sunny days, and we’re one week into being a “generator”. Oh, how laudable… today we have completed our first week harvesting Sunshine, and I can reveal we have overloaded the local grid network with an additional sixteen kiloWatt hours!…
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Solar? Not yet…
Ok, following up on yesterday’s post about the solar pv installation. Houston, we have a problem. In the dim but ever welcome (and potentially profitable) light of an autumn morning, it was clear something was amiss. The only power to be seen was on the red error LED on the inverter and the alarm text…
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Sucking on Sunshine I
Not that the Sun is making much of an impact right now. But today we had (are having) 3.9kW(peak) of Solar PV installed onto the roof of Majach Cottage. Our roof faces east and west, with an ever so slightly southerly tilt on the west face, so it’s installed on the west side. That’s the…
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Going Solar
If I had had a roof which faced south I would have gone solar years ago, back when the Feed in Tariff was a stupidly high 43.3p/kWh. However, back then the solar panels were less efficient and more expensive, and given we didn’t have anywhere near an optimum south facing roof it seemed impractical at…
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