August was a mixed bag of solar nuts

TOMORROW WE WILL call Eon - our power supplier - and demand to know where our quarterly bill is. We haven't had one for a while.

How can we possibly calculate the benefits of our 3Kw solar panels if we have a dilatory power supplier who read the meter more than a month ago and still hasn't delivered a bill. Is it because we're owed money? Our readers want to know.

Further, Siemens seems to want to change the existing power meter - odd this, because we only had it changed four years ago. Could the two "coincidences" be connected? We will find out.

August at INQ Central was a mixed bag - the best day was this almost perfect bell curve on the 4th, there was obviously a spot of cloud about 8AM but we were probably in the shower so didn't notice it. Perhaps someone was smoking a fag outside the front door and the smoke drifted upwards? 06:00 until 21:00 - a nice day but not impossibly humid.

Compare and contrast this with the 14th of August, below. The Sun got up like a slug and slowly slimed its way from east to west. Not fantastic, we're sure you'll agree.

We queried the inverter. It didn't seem unhappy at the state of things since installation 2,537 hours and 33 minutes ago. OK, the Moon isn't strong enough to wake it up when it goes full, but hey.

We still think the Fronius software is a tad buggy. The pigeon poo doesn't seem to interfere too much with the solar cells. But we're not letting Siemens anywhere near our inverter and grid cut off stuff unless they've got a qualified engineer.

Imagine if the whole of our south facing street had 3Kw panels? Would we need EON and Siemens any more?

We will be sure to let you know what the apparatchiks say tomorrow. µ

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