Daily pv production

Is this a home assistant card?

Perfect day in West Clare. Doesn't get better than this. 6.1kw system with South and southwest panels.

36.8 kWh total but perfect curves from both arrays. Shame tomorrow is a shocker

23.6 from South panels

13.2 from the West

Like everyone else put in a monster day but it could have been better. We had some high level clouds here in Cork until around lunch time, but still put in a great day.

Only used 46% of it though more than half want back into the grid. Saw some of the perfect smooth curves of a few of you guys and they looked great.

6.1 kWp in Cork

Another one for the lovely curve competition, don't they all have great bumps.

3kw system and of course I was working in the office yesterday so a ton exported.

But Friday is looking pretty sweet for Dublin anyway from the met eireann forecast at the moment (it does tend to change a bit when it's more than 2 days out)

How do you get that solar radiation forecast?

I use Yr.no and find it pretty accurate, but that would help massively too.

Ahh! I avoided that when it first came out. Just pulled the finger out there and wired everything up. They made it super awkward! All these special specifiers and the fact it only updates hourly. Will see if I did it correctly, it's a nice visualization but as usual with Home Assistant it's super ad-hoc, hacky and yet another new format.

Great day yesterday, produced 14.5kwh from a 2.5kwp system facing south.

Back to normal today, might hit 2kwh if I'm lucky.😪

4.1 today. 40.3 yesterday. Hard to believe a 10 fold difference within 2 days.

Installer addressed the issue on Wed, no alarms since.

Good afternoon folks,

Looking for a bit of advice. We got a small system installed in November of last year 2.7kWh system without a battery. We are new to solar so based on previous advice we went with the Huawei SUN 2000-3KTL-L1 Hybrid Inverter as we could add a battery at a later date.

We both work from home full time but will spend a large portion of the summer away from home. During this period whatever is produced is going straight back the grid after the solar i boost heats the water.

22% self sufficient in December, 25% in January, 40% in February and although it is early days we are currently 56% for March.

We normally try to use appliances during the day when the panels are active and have managed to give very little back to the grid but based on the weather we are getting the last few days we are producing more than we need. The better the weather gets coming into the summer and the amount of time we spend away from the home in the summer we are looking into getting a battery.

The Huawei Luna 5kWh battery will set us back between 4k to 5k which is a little out of our price range currently. A guy from the SEAI came to do a check on the work the other day before they pay our grant and he advised that there are a lot of batteries out there which are much cheaper.

I would greatly appreciate if any of you on the forum could possibly recommend one that would be compatible with the inverter we have, What we might be looking at price range and for installation. Not looking for anything too fancy. Just difficult to watch the output going back to the grid.

We had our best day on Monday last generating just under 14 kWh of which almost 4 kWh went back to the grid.

Today's output attached.

Thanks in advance.

Hey up mate. I did say "come march you'll be rocking along" didn't I ?! :-)

So I'd advise caution there on a battery with your setup. Not from a technical viewpoint, but from some of the things that you were saying in your commentary. You may need to expand a little on this for example.

You might want to clarify "large portion of the summer away from home". Is this that your just not working from home, or your out of the country for example? Thinking it through, let's say it's Monday and you fill the battery - but your not in the house. Then there's no one to use that energy on Monday night to make space for the generation to be captured on the Tuesday. So in effect no matter how big the battery is, once it's full, it's just a dead weight until you empty it.

With 2.7Kwp in panels, I'd probably not couple that to anything more than 2.5kwhr or thereabouts battery. Yeah, on days like today you'll export a bit, but these are the exceptional days. Most days you won't fill a 5Kwhr battery from solar (after you take out your base load)

You will (like all of us) export some on sunny days. Think of it as you doing your bit for the environment. Your neighbor gets to consume renewable energy. Now if you can add a few more panels, then a bigger battery would start to make sense.

Plenty of generation today. Exported 5kWh:(