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The 100 MWh Club
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 4:18 pm
by nowty
I knew it was close and I've been waiting for a few days,
Today my Solar PV total is showing,
My Ripple windfarm generation is showing,
Add them up 91.591 MWh + 8.4311 MWh and its just over 100 MWh.
In Jan 2012, I was chatting to one of my work colleagues over lunch, he was quite interested in climate change and he knew I had solar panels fitted a few months before. He enquired how it was going ?,
I replied, I’ve just generated my first MWh.
He replied, I don’t even know what that is.
Not long ago after came my second MWh, and by the end of 2012 I was on my fourth MWh. I calculated that based on my initial 4kW system on the 25 year FIT contract, I might just make 100MWh by the time the contract finished in Sept 2035.
Then I installed more PV, and I have been adding to it incrementally until there was no more room for PV. So then onto Ripple windfarms and now the solar farm, I like the fact there is a personal meter clocking up the MWh’s just like my inverters.
Now 100 MWh has been achieved over 12 years earlier than I had predicted back in 2012.
Re: The 100 MWh Club
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 4:27 pm
by Joeboy
Massive congratulations! A serious milestone indeed.
Re: The 100 MWh Club
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 6:46 pm
by Fintray
Congratulations Nowty, the next 100MWh will be so much quicker.
Imagine if 5% of the population was the same!
Re: The 100 MWh Club
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 8:01 pm
by nowty
Fintray wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 6:46 pm
Congratulations Nowty, the next 100MWh will be so much quicker.
Imagine if 5% of the population was the same!
I have just calculated once all 3 ripple projects are operating my annual yield should be just over 30 MWh, so 100 MWh every 3 and bit years.
A possible 1 GWh in my lifetime.
Re: The 100 MWh Club
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 8:03 pm
by Joeboy
nowty wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 8:01 pm
Fintray wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 6:46 pm
Congratulations Nowty, the next 100MWh will be so much quicker.
Imagine if 5% of the population was the same!
I have just calculated once all 3 ripple projects are operating my annual yield should be just over 30 MWh, so 100 MWh every 3 and bit years.
A possible 1 GWh in my lifetime.
I was waiting for that.
Excellent! We'll be closely matched in RE.
Re: The 100 MWh Club
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 8:17 pm
by marshman
Congrats.
Re: The 100 MWh Club
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 8:22 pm
by Joeboy
marshman wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 8:17 pm
Congrats. I actually passed 100MWh of total onsite (no Ripple or any other "external" input) generation a few months back, just didn't realise - just added it all up and I am now at 103963MWh
Wind Turbine (removed in 2013) generated 2743kWh whilst grid connected and a similar amount while "off grid" running with AGM Lead Acid batteries, this was unmetered so not included in my figures.
First PV system 3.15kWpk installed April 2010 has just turned 48MWh (48011kWh) at close of play today.
There is another onsite 3.68kWh system feeding another dwelling I had installed in 2011, by the end of March that had generated 44882kWh - probably another 1000kWh to go on that, meter read not due for another month.
West facing system (approx 1.2kWpk) , put in a few years ago to catch late afternoon sun has generated 2743kWh since install
Battery E-W system (5.7kWpk) has generated 5816kWh in just over a year - this is severely curtailed by export limit, so once batteries are charged it throttles back if the house doesn't need it.
So total onsite generation (early Wind + all Solar) :
44882
48011
5816
2511
2743
=
103963 kWh
The original Fits system is the "best" as it has generated 15,214 kWh / kWpk in 13 years, so is averaging over 1MWh/kWpk installed annually and no drop off in performance - this month it generated 552kWh (175.36 kWh/kWpk) second best May ever, only beaten by May 2020 (Covid, no planes, clear skies !!)
And people still tell me Solar panels don't work in this country and will fail before they pay for themselves
It is amazing how well you can do by not yielding to a consensus of fools.
Re: The 100 MWh Club
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:34 am
by Yuff
nowty wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 8:01 pm
Fintray wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 6:46 pm
Congratulations Nowty, the next 100MWh will be so much quicker.
Imagine if 5% of the population was the same!
I have just calculated once all 3 ripple projects are operating my annual yield should be just over 30 MWh, so 100 MWh every 3 and bit years.
A possible 1 GWh in my lifetime.
Those wind farms are very handy for winter usage when solar drops.
Gutted I missed out on those now I have heat pumps, mind you as long as octopus IO doesn’t change too much I should be ok, if it does change more batteries and quicker inverter needed
Re: The 100 MWh Club
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 11:44 am
by Adokforme
Congrats with achieving that remarkable figure Nowty and thanks for compiling the graph too.
Would love to become a member of the club but being a relative newcomer to the scene, 2018, we're unlikely to be applying in the short term. To date we've assembled 48 MWh from PV and 4.4 MWh thanks to Ripple and GF.
Once KH becomes live, then should anticipated CF's prevail, we could be generating 16 MWh's annually so another three or four years away as yet.
Would also be great to achieve 100kWh's in a single day but suspect we should require near perfect conditions at all three locations for that to happen.
We've maxed out with Ripple and being pretty well covered energy generation and storage wise no longer feel the need to seek out further opportunities along those lines.
But never say never, hey!
Re: The 100 MWh Club
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 8:33 am
by Andy
Adokforme wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 11:44 am To date we've assembled 48 MWh from PV and 4.4 MWh thanks to Ripple and GF.
Have you got her pedalling a bike generator?
