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Statistics for the PV installation on the roof of Rob and Anne's houseHere is a list of accomplishments of our 4.37 kWp system that was installed on 27 January 2012.Some key production numbersTotal production up to 28 January 2023: 53187.46 kWh Return on investment = 12.0 % per year; system paid for itself and gave 2695.89 euro net income; net ROI 2.90 % per year.
GraphsThe graph here below shows the production over the last 365 days. Each day of production is given as a black "o"-sign. The red line is the model calculation showing the expected production on a perfectly sunny day, at the average temperature expected for the season in our area. The green line is the running average 14 days before and after the day, averaged over all years the system has been installed. You can see from this graph that in winter, many days are much lower than the "sunny" prediction, while in summer there are rare days where the actual production is lower than half of the model calculation. This can also be observed in the monthly average table below, where the percentage of the model prediction is shown. The following graph shows what effect the production has on our family use of public electricity. The black line represents our usage of electricity (in kWh/day) one data point per year. You can see that we started saving significantly after we checked the use of all our electrical equipment in 2006, and eliminated a few huge consumers. From 2013 onwards we slowly replaced all lighting by LED. And in 2016 we bought a new energy saving laundry dryer with heat pump. In 2020, we changed the heating of the house to include a 2kW/7.4kW heat pump system; we are curious how that will show up. Starting 2012 a green line is added that shows our own production. Since we have a meter with separate registration of produced electricity (a few weeks after installation of the system), we produced 53022 kWh. Of that, 13081 kWh (24 %) could immediately be used and 39941 kWh (75 %) was overproduction that has been delivered to the net. During the same period 33760 kWh (72 % of total usage of 46841 kWh) has been used from the net in darker hours. The system is producing significantly more than we had expected, and our use was lower than the "average" predictions on our energy bill which we used to dimension our PV system. This made us a net producer of electricity for 8 years: until September 2020, we overproduced 9700 kWh. At that moment we bought a hybrid heat pump, since then we use about 4000 kWh/year more replacing 1300 m3/year of natural gas. The total overproduction remaining is 6145 kWh. Production by month in kWh
Production by month in % of cloudless model
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Comparing with other PV systemsTo compare our production with other systems, check us out on SolarYield.EU. |