Energy Matters Global and Domestic

[NewcastleFalcon]

Been out from 10am until 11pm and the house has used 3kWh. Very dull and dark day, fair bit of rain so not much good for solar panels.

I've just got my list of solar for October, best day produced 11Kwh worst 1.9 Kwh so they still work even if the weather is dull

"The best time to install solar is when you first started researching it, the second-best time is now "


FCF Home solar thread viewtopic.php?p=728216&hilit=install#p728216

Regards Neil

[Gibbo2286]

I registered with Solax the invertor supplier and get monthly reports by email for my solar output. this is part of the October one

[Peter.N.]

This is my total since 2012. Apologies for the cock eyed picture, its difficult to get at. Horrible day today.

[NewcastleFalcon]

What are our Gallic neighbours doing with Solar Power
Mandating it's installation on car parks over a certain size...

Electrek's take

https://electrek.co/2022/11/08/france-r ... ar-panels/

In France, solar just got a huge boost from new legislation approved through the Senate this week that requires all parking lots with spaces for at least 80 vehicles – both existing and new – be covered by solar panels.

The new provisions are part of French president Emmanuel Macron’s large-scale plan to heavily invest in renewables, which aims to multiply by 10 the amount of solar energy produced in the country, and to double the power from land-based wind farms.

Direct from the La bouche du cheval, hopefully it translates

https://www-publicsenat-fr.translate.go ... r_pto=wapp

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

Europe's largest battery energy storage installation has gone live in the UK with the capacity to store up to 196MWh of electricity, pointing the way towards greater use of the technology to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy.

The Pillswood project near Hull towards the North Sea coast of England has been developed by Harmony Energy Limited and aims to provide load balancing services to the electricity grid. It is claimed to store enough energy to power around 300,000 homes for two hours.

The Register

[myglaren]

Tees Valley Lithium has received full permission from Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council to construct the refinery at the Wilton International Chemicals Park and feed into the vast demand for battery power as the UK needs more electric vehicles on its roads.

Northern Echo

[myglaren]

A solution for anyone with a stream nearby?

[Peter.N.]

She is amazing that girl I have been following her for some time, and strong!

Peter

[Paul-R]

A solution for anyone with a stream nearby?

Can I just say that the "old man" didn't look so old to me!

[myglaren]

He didn't. Lin is a lot older than she looks too.

[Dormouse]

Lin is definitely hardy and capable. I've seen a few more of her videos now and this Vlog site kept coming up. Have you seen it?






There are a whole series of different people's builds by the looks of it

[NewcastleFalcon]

Three months doesn't make a summer but encouraging start.

Let's look at the evidence so far, Chez Falcon, the results are in for November 2022.

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big drop in gas consumption over 2021

Regards Neil

[Dormouse]

I have a slightly old tech approach to tabulating energy consumption

[myglaren]

I use a notebook and then a spreadsheet. May be somewhat over the top

[mickthemaverick]

Happy with ours:
November 2019. 526 elec. 75 gas. Extra week
November 2020. 343 elec. 45 gas
November 2021. 305 elec 46 gas
November 2022. 252 elec. 40 gas