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Its Year 1 + 5 week of having solar installed. This week we have managed 55.4 kW in a week, An average of 7.9 kW a day. Import 29 kWh Generation 55.4 kWh Export 34 kWh Gas 7 m³ or 79.8 kWh  

Whooooo Hoooooo  Today we passed the 2MW (2000 kW) Generated from our PV install.  Its taken 56Weeks to hit this and we are well over what the government think we should of generated in this time. The below graph shows what we have produced and what we should biased on roof angle and orientation (red is generation Blue is [...]

Its Year 1 + 4 week of having solar installed. This week we have managed 58.2 kW in a week, An average of 8.3 kW a day. Import 32 kWh Generation 58.2 kWh Export 31 kWh Gas 4 m³ or 45.6 kWh  

Its Year 1 + 3 week of having solar installed. This week we have managed 61 kW in a week, An average of 8.7 kW a day. Import 26 kWh Generation 61 kWh Export 39 kWh Gas 4 m³ or 45.6 kWh  

Its Year 1 + 2 week of having solar installed. This week we have managed 41.9 kW in a week, An average of 6 kW a day. Import 31 kWh Generation 41.9 kWh Export 21 kWh Gas 17 m³ or 193.8 kWh  

Its Year 1 + 1 week of having solar installed. This week we have managed 61.2 kW in a week, An average of 8.7 kW a day. Import 36 kWh Generation 61.2 kWh Export 35 kWh Gas 22 m³ or 250.8 kWh Well its now 1 Year since having PV Installed.. We have generated 1788 [...]

Its week 52 of having solar installed. This week we have managed 18 kW in a week, An average of 2.6 kW a day. Import 27 kWh Generation 18 kWh Export 7 kWh Gas 18 m³ or 205 kWh  

Its week 51 of having solar installed. This week we have managed 47.8 kW in a week, An average of 6.8 kW a day. Import 35 kWh Generation 47.8 kWh Export 25 kWh Gas 18 m³ or 205 kWh  

When we first got our solar we were happy with 41.3p per kWh FIT tarrif, the government has kept its promise of looking at it this year at least and has increased it in line with the Retail Price Index (4.8%) so as from 1/4/2011 we will be earning 43.3p per kWh and our export has increased as from [...]

Its week 50 of having solar installed. This week we have managed 43 kW in a week, An average of 6.1 kW a day. Import 40 kWh Generation 43 kWh Export 21 kWh Gas 25 m³ or 285 kWh