Rob Walker's Blog

Ramblings of an IT Support person, Also how im trying to save energy biased in Bristol.

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Sorry for the lack of updates over the last few weeks.. We seem to cotracted evey bug known to mankind and some new ones also.. Anyway while we were ill we had an artical written about the energy savings and what we had done to get them.. See below for the Picture from the evening [...]

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 [...]

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 42 of having solar installed. This week we have managed 21.4 kW in a week, An average of 3.1 kW a day. Import 40 kWh Generation 21.4 kWh Export 11 kWh Gas 45 m³ or 513 kWh

Its week 41 of having solar installed. This week we have managed 9.4 kW in a week, An average of 1.3 kW a day. Import 49 kWh Generation 9.4 kWh Export 5 kWh Gas 42 m³ or 479 kWh

Its week 40 of having solar installed. This week we have managed 5.3 kW in a week, An average of 0.8 kW a day. Import 50 kWh Generation 5.3 kWh Export 3 kWh Gas 54 m³ or 616 kWh

Its week 39 of having solar installed, and its New years day… This week we have managed 3.2 kW in a week, An average of 0.5 kW a day. Import 48 kWh Generation 3.2 kWh Export 0 kWh  (yes Zero, Zip, nothing, etc Again this week) Gas 56 m³ or 638 kWh 2010 Year total. Import [...]

We have had our solar install now over 6 months and have been trying to save electricity as well for 12 months, so we can see how much were saving from both from a year ago.. Table showing last 3 Years of Electricity Usage. We started our energy saving at the end of 2009 and [...]

Its week 38 of having solar installed, and its Xmas day… This week we have managed 3 kW in a week, An average of 0.4 kW a day. Well we have a record low..  See this post. Its been snowing most of this week with little chance of getting the snow to melt on the panels. Import [...]