Welcome this is John and this is June 2023 stats for our solar PV, Tesla Powerwall 2, Renault Zoe,
Tesla Model 3 Performance yada yada and the Ripple Energy wind turbine and so on regulars all know
the type stuff we work our way through. This is our setup at home this will be the last time
you see this setup in its current form because as I record this on the 15th of July we've got
rid of the hot water cylinder, 140 litre hot water cylinder and it's been replaced and we have a heat
pump. I'm doing separate videos on the heat pump installation, the pre-work that I did, and then
also the actual installation. There's a lot to cover so I'm not really going to cover it in this
particular video. So look out for that, in the edit and we'll be coming up very very soon. How
did June affect us? According to the Met Office it was the sunniest June since 1957 for the UK
and they were saying that climate change impacts June temperature records it's been confirmed
as the hottest on record for the UK as the 4th sunniest June on record and drier than average
for most. And we certainly had lots of sunny days and you'll see that in our solar stats in
a minute. We did have a few downpours. Captured one here, much to Amber our cats disgust.
Turned her back on it. Another milestone for us was achieving a million views on my YouTube
channel. Thank you for everyone who watched and endured my videos! Appreciate that very
much. If you haven't already subscribe would be handy. Plus like, comment. I also took the
opportunity to tidy up network connections. Add new network connections you'll see there we've
got a connection there for the heat pump. So on to our stats. This is our turbine,
wind turbine in Wales with Ripple Energy. For the month we got a saving of £66.45p. This is the day
by day in tabular format. You can see the daily generation cumulative kilowatt hours of units and
then the savings per day giving you that total of £66.45. We have a running total so far of £500,
almost £50, £547.47p which I'm really pleased with. This is the day by day in graph format. Some
high days, some low days in terms of wind. This is the month by month savings for Graig Fatha wind
turbine. We've also got Kirk Hill wind turbine a scheme that we've invested in as well. We've
got 26% of our electricity needs in this Craig Fatha one and 76% I think it is off top of my head
within Kirk Hill which comes live the early part of 2024. I'm hoping that both of those covers all
of our electricity usage. We'll see being that we're now on a heat pump our electricity usage
will be going up quite considerably especially as we now have no gas at all. Onto solar. For June
we generated 919 units which is a bit of a record for us for June. It's our third highest ever. You
can see there over on the left hand side you've got 934 in April 2020 with a 1077 in May of 2020.
But even so third highest on record which is a very impressive and you'll see in a minute it's
top June in total. Which is unusual for June because sometimes it gets a little bit too hot
which then degrades the performance of the solar panels, because they don't like to get too hot.
The average daily generation there as you see 31 which again is very very good.
Splitting that between the 2 arrays we have 593 for the 4kW array, 362 for the 2.34kW array.
Regulars will remember that I had a problem with the array it was a down for three months out of
action because one of the optimisers died. And I decided to rip all of those out get rid of
the SolarEdge converter, the 2.2kW inverter, and put in a more simple string array with the Solis
2kW inverter. And I'm not finding that much loss between the 2 setups. This is our solar
start and solar end times of day for June. June being the longest month in terms of having the
longest day in there the 22nd I think it is. I can never remember I always have to look it up.
Do let me know in the comments if it's the 21st or 22nd. And you can see there at the bottom in
blue the start of solar day the earliest was 5:20am in the morning and the latest was 8:45p
in the evening. A really long opportunity for solar production and that's only reflected in
the figures. Here is the peak generation in watt hours and the time of day that peak generation
occurred. And again it's really about consistency here over the course of the month. There's only
2 days where we drop below 4,000w. Only just on the 4th... oh 5th of June ...looking at the wrong
column. There was only one day really the 6th of June where it was sort of sub optimal. This chart
looks at our percentage contribution of the Tesla Powerwall 2 and our solar PV panels to our overall
self power. 64% of the energy came from solar and 28% came from the battery to power us. A total of
92% self-power for the month which I was very pleased with. All of the Junes that we've had
solar so from June 2012 right through to June just gone. 919 as you see there is head and shoulders
above the rest by some country mile. Almost 100kW! This is the Tesla Powerwall battery. Power in,
power out. Right... far right hand column. Yellow is what went in 320 units what came out was 277
giving a round-trip efficiency of 87%. This is a day by day over the course of the month of June. 3
big blue spikes there were we've used... blue is house usage... where we've used over 60kWh in a
day. That will be because we've charged the Tesla overnight and that's backed up by the fact that
you've got those red columns on the same day. The red is the import from the grid and we've
obviously charged it overnight on cheap rate. And also by comparison look at the amount of yellow
there. And the yellow is by and large equaling or exceeding the house usage on a day by day basis.
And as a result very little import and also very little export. This is our totals for the month.
House is just over a megawatt, 919 as you know from solar. 161 units from the grid and 19 units
to the grid. This is our average daily house usage over the course of the month. 36 units on average
a day for the house and 5 of those would have come from the grid. That's the red line at the bottom.
This is what we've sent to the grid. 19 units in June 2023 and you can see there it's sort of
similar to what we normally expect to see in June. This is our pull from the grid. 161 units in June
which again sort of in keeping with what we've done previously is perhaps a little bit higher.
Let's have a look at the eddi. This heats our hot water. Got a bit of dilemma with this.
What I'm going to do with it going forward now that we've got the heat pump. This is
June stats but from July onwards you'll see my dilemma. And what I'm talking about here is that
this month we've put 48 units to heat our hot water what are we going to do going forwards.
Are we going to still use the eddi as a priority to heat our water, or are we going to let the heat
pump do it? And the reason there's a quandary about this is that the eddi with the immersion
heater will only ever be 1:1 efficient. So one unit of electricity will equal one unit of heat.
Whereas a heat pump , ours is running 3.6 at the moment
SCoP....or CoP sorry (Coefficient of Performance). 1 unit of electricity equals 3.6 units of heat,
so it's three times more efficient to run a heat pump than it is to heat up water via the eddi.
However, if you're going to export the solar if you've used up all the solar on site as it were
and it's exporting then it's better to use it to heat the hot water rather than export it because
we don't get any benefit from exporting it. I think this will be a watch this space. I'll be
interested to know what other people are doing with that and what their thoughts are. So do
drop the comments down below please. This is our historical look at the eddi. For the month of June
48 units as you know. £4.08p saving bringing us a running total of £109, £110p based on our
off-peak costs of 8.5p/kWh. The cars. This is the My Renault app and when I go into it more often
than not I get this little pop-up message which says 'My Renault: It seems that you are using My
Renault quite often. Do you like the application?' I always respond 'No' because it's pants! But they
still pop it up anyways like hello I've told you it's rubbish well why are you still asking me.
You've done nothing to improve it. And the reason it's not brilliant is because you go into it
and this is the the screen that pops up and it says oh yeah 21%. You go out to the car it's
nowhere near 21% and the mileage is completely different from what it shows there at 30,296.
And the reason is that if you look at when it was last polled last vehicle activity on the 30th
of March 2023 it's like hang on a minute it's June why have you not updated and I don't and
how or why or when or what triggers the update. The phone goes in the car with me. It's got
Bluetooth on so you would think they would talk to each other but plainly they don't.
Apart from that car's been fine, no problems with it. In fact it's actually very efficient
this time of year. We charged it up to 100% the other day because we're doing a lot of
running around in it and normally 100% in the winter it gets about 80 miles of range showing
on the display. Whereas look at that 106 miles of range and it is pretty accurate actually.
So yeah it's a really efficient little car when when it's nice and warm and you're tooling around
locally. It's running up to 31,397 miles at the moment. And during the month we've pumped in
almost 200 units of green solar energy. 57% of our total charging came from solar which is phenomenal
really. And it's quite a high total isn't it? 344 units or 345 almost. Spreadsheet with our cars
on it again if you want to pause this and have a look in more detail you can. I've sort of picked
out the highlights there already of 57% the green home energy. What else have we got here to tell
you about. Oh yes FiT payment. The 1st of June is our FiT payment so send that off to EDF and then
they very quickly respond and pay us which is nice in the 2 or 3 days. The red line red dotted line
you're looking at £872.63p is our payment for the 2nd quarter. So that's a very healthy payment for
that particular time. And this is the chart data set of our FiT payments from the off! £25,000 in
total we've had FiT payments and as regulars will know that all goes back into improving our home
and adding components to the home for renewable side of things. A lot of the heat pump money has
come from that. Here's our electric and gas bill. So electric bill a total of £33.48p.
167 units of electricity averaging out at 11.45p which is pretty good over the course of the month.
Most of it during the off-peak rate. This is gas. We've got 2 gas bills if you like, over 2 periods
so the first were from the 5th of June to the 30th and then the second was from the 1st of
July to the 4th of July which will be in due to a price increase or decrease. None of it really
impacted us because the standing charge is exactly the same and we didn't use any gas at all in June.
In fact I think I mentioned it earlier the gas meter has been capped and we're waiting
for Octopus Energy to come along and remove it. Once it's removed we will lose our MPRN which
will then trigger the stopping of a standing charge which is nice. So it's £110 a year
that we'll be saving. This is our historic gas bills over the course of the months and years.
And then the same thing for electric. A year, over the year really. I haven't got so much data.
We will be changing our tariff on 5th of August. Go Faster tariff runs out. Go Faster is no longer
there's the Go tariff but we're probably going to go with Octopus Intelligent and see how that works
for us. Looked at the Flux tariff. I've looked at the Cozy tariff but I think based on our battery
and our usage and our profile will be better off with Intelligent. So we'll see how that works out
for us. A bit of a summary. Total bill for gas and electric is £41.65p. A credit from Ripple
£66.45p meant that we had a credit to our account of £24.80p. Plus if you recall the FiT payment of
£872.63p. So there you go. Let me know how you got on in the comments down below. Stay tuned
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videos which will be coming up very very soon. All right take care thanks for watching bye.