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Outstanding month full of sunshine, hailstones and also thunder & lightning.

Solaredge PV system 670kWh
Victron System PV 584kWh
Graig Fatha WT 417 kWh

1,671kWh RE generation
Grid import 65kWh

Absolutely a new PB.

Nowty Towers Power Station
Main 4kW PV system generated 632 kWh which is 14% above baseline and my best June ever in 12 years, I beat June 2018 by 2 kWh.
Total PV arrays generated 1675 kWh.

Electric Import was 3 kWh.
Gas import was 23 kWh.
Out of house EV charging was 0 kWh.
Petrol used in EV hybrid was 0 kWh.
Total imported energy use 26 kWh

Electric export was 336 kWh.
Ripple GF wind farm generated 481 kWh.
Total energy offset 817 kWh

Net energy import for Nowty Towers Minus 791 kWh

2023 (to date) Net Energy Import 1836 kWh

Best month on record for the 2nd Month in a row. (A record previously unbeaten since May 2020 when the array was only 4.08kW!)

578.4kWh / 5.220kWp = 110.8kWh/KWp

841kWh, from 6.4kWp. 114% PVGIS expected value. At least I know the panels work, and shading issues account for other discrepancies.

88 days, now generated over 2100 kWh, about a 50/50 split between self use and export. Now on Octopus Flux so excess is getting channeled into covering cost of hot water (showers and baths) and subsidising the winters heating.

One observation: using induction for cooking as opposed to gas has increased my electricity usage by about 50 to 60 kWh/month. Not really an issue but gas usage remains at around 400kWh for the month. So with a bit more time I can probably work out what the export will cover. Still importing about 10kWh/month due to inverter speed issues (but costs less than a quid per month given the export benefits).

Another good month here, June started off superbly but didn't quite beat the figures from May.
Did have one glitch that resulted in a little extra import - whilst away by Cardigan Bay for several days, the battery comms with the inverter went down. Meant some grid use overnight, but overall still at 95% PV contribution for the month.

New record by far - long may this continue - 813kWh against PVGIS of 595kWh! Works out at 145kWh/kWp (5.6kWp)

Mine was actually worse than May! 1121.0kWh in May

My results for June were:

3.87 kWp, slope 50 degrees, due south, lat 57.15

Total generation: 504kWh

Daily average: 16.8kWh

Generation per kWp: 130.2kWh

Daily average per kWp: 4.3kWh

PVGIS: 372kWh

%PVGIS: 135%

3rd best June since install, 84kWh above the average (1kWh less than 2022 and 15kWh less than 2018).

Work array 11kWp.

1.56MWh of generation
1.251MWh of import
0.976MWh self consumption
0.584MWh exported

Generated 612 kWh
Cant say June was a good month in terms of solar as it only just beat May by 43 kWh and it seemed a pretty dull month, although July has started off even worse!