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<blockquote data-quote="carptench" data-source="post: 525568" data-attributes="member: 34841"><p>Thanks for the link Binky. Its a great website. A lot of the information on there is limited to annual production but some users do have the daily charts attached which has been helpful.</p><p>It looks like the production figures over the winter months drops rapidly so battery storage isn't going to work without a huge solar array, which would be wasted for 7 months of the year. </p><p>I think realistically for me its going to be a case of scaling back on the PV array say to about 6kw and installing a immersion heater dump, which should cover most of our use during the warmer months. Maybe just add a small battery bank to complement this. Then look at something else for the winter period. I know you mentioned a wind turbine and this is something we did look at a few years ago, but we are on the border of it not being viable due to the wind speeds in our area. It a huge outlay for it not to work!</p><p>We run a air source heat pump for our heating and would like to say its 300% efficient as sold to us but its not. It sucks around 3kw constantly when the temperature drops below 10 degrees outside. Maybe we should look at something else as a heating source maybe Biomass?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="carptench, post: 525568, member: 34841"] Thanks for the link Binky. Its a great website. A lot of the information on there is limited to annual production but some users do have the daily charts attached which has been helpful. It looks like the production figures over the winter months drops rapidly so battery storage isn't going to work without a huge solar array, which would be wasted for 7 months of the year. I think realistically for me its going to be a case of scaling back on the PV array say to about 6kw and installing a immersion heater dump, which should cover most of our use during the warmer months. Maybe just add a small battery bank to complement this. Then look at something else for the winter period. I know you mentioned a wind turbine and this is something we did look at a few years ago, but we are on the border of it not being viable due to the wind speeds in our area. It a huge outlay for it not to work! We run a air source heat pump for our heating and would like to say its 300% efficient as sold to us but its not. It sucks around 3kw constantly when the temperature drops below 10 degrees outside. Maybe we should look at something else as a heating source maybe Biomass? [/QUOTE]
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