28 April 2011

April 2011 Generation Results



The bright sunny days of March have led to rather dreary days of April. This has been very interesting results for our solar power generation. I don't think there was one day in April of totally bright cloud-free days, though I'll check that later. In the mean time I am posting my PV generation to date. Given that the next few days that end April will be very cloudy and wet, I don't expect anything interesting, so I post this a few days before then end of April.
However, a quick note about extremely windy days today and yesterday. There was unconfirmed tornadoes in Kitchener, 20 km to the west of us yesterday, and very strong gusts here in Guelph. Our panels are still on the roof - that's a good thing. I was very impressed that our solar system installer [Merlyn Power]  called this morning to see if we still had panels on our roof or if there was any damage. Very considerate and consciousness of him.
So, the results:
  • the middle of March was spectacularly bright as you see in my 03 April post. This continued into early April but mid to end of April were relatively cloudy with lower kWhrs
  • 20 April was only 5 kWhrs which was a very rainy and dark day
  • cloudy with sunny periods was yielding about 15 kWhrs
 

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