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Solar panel output

  • March 24, 2025
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I find the "solar panel daily output" thing bizarre. If you have a 5kwh system it produces (at best) 5kw every hour. It doesn't 'produce' 50kwkh just because its active for 10 hours! It produces 5kwh, every hour, (maybe) that's what it's meant to do. If you don't have a storage system or ats system to the grid it can't suddenly produce 10x it's capability! It can however give to the grid the excess you don't use (for a pittance usually!) if you have a GTS. I don't think any of the solar panel outfits make this clear enough. I know of a system here which has never returned any cash near enough to cover the installation costs! Nor is it ever likely to! 

 

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Peter E
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  • March 24, 2025

Hi ​@Alian and welcome to the forum.

 

Some people get a solar system to ‘be green’ and some people get one to save on electricity bills and perhaps make a bit of money selling the excess back to the grid through a solar export guarantee or SEG. Different companies offer different levels of SEG from about 5p/kWh up to 20p for OVO if you get them to put the system in. A battery may or may not be a benefit. A system will pay back or not depending upon what was put in, who put it in and the details of exactly how the owner uses power.

 

Did you have a specific question in mind when making the post?

 

For general infirmation on Solar Power then search for that in the forum. There is plenty of information in various posts.

 

Peter

 

 

Reducing my yearly fossil fuel usage with an EV (-900 litres petrol), A2AHP (-8,000 kWh gas) and Timed Immersion heater (-1,500 kWh gas)

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