#solar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #solar, aggregated by home.social.
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Denmark’s #solar panels produced a record 850 GWh of electricity in June, equal to the annual power use of about 210,000 households.
Solar energy accounted for 26% of the #electricity used that month.#GreenEnergy
#SolarEnergy #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateAction #EnergyTransition #NetZero #SolarPanels #Denmark #GreenTech -
New #blog post - Plug in #solar: Our Performance So Far
With plug-in solar now legally available in the #UK, I thought it might be helpful to share performance figures for the kit that we had hardwired in earlier in the year
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/plug-in-solar-performance-so-far.html
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Hongqi desenvolveu um teto solar para carros elétricos capaz de gerar 400 kWh por ano. O protótipo do modelo EHS7 é equipado com um teto solar de perovskite para alimentar os sistemas eletrónicos do veículo de forma mais eficiente.
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Solcast forecast for today (South East 4x400w panels) - 2.37 kWh
Solcast forecast for today (East 4x400w panels) - 2.22 kWh
Solcast forecast for today (West North 6x400w panels) - 3.56 kWh
Solcast forecasting a total of 8.1546 kWh
#Solar #SolarGeneration #Solcast #SolarPV -
Friday Northern Lights Update: These 10 States Could See The Aurora Tonight
Topline The northern lights could appear in up to 10 states Friday night, according to data from the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Aurora #Borealis #Climate #northernlights #solar #Space #Sun #weather
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Lambs grazing under an Oregon solar farm had 38 percent less grass in front of them than lambs in the open field alongside, and they put on the same weight to the gram, because shade makes a pasture grow less of everything except protein https://share.google/p0Dnma37JENnVnTjF
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New Jersey approved 16 #agrivoltaics projects totaling over 52 megawatts. The first in its Dual-Use Pilot Agrivoltaics program, each project will pair #solar generation with active #farming, including soybeans, hay, grains, vegetables, fruit and livestock
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In 2024, Chile passed a law incentivizing battery development paired with utility-scale solar. This move quickly led to a flood of big battery project announcements, as the capacity payments model combined with arbitrage revenue means hybrid solar an…#EnergyStorage #Hybridsystems #SOlar
Chile’s hybrid heroics - pv magazine Global -
The last cable parts arrived and I put up the last cable passthrough box so the cable routing project is done! I'm very pleased. ^_^
I'd be happier if that last leg hadn't got weird due to RANDOMLY CHANGING RAFTER DIRECTIONS, but one can't have everything, obviously.
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🔋 Yesterday, a #Solar battery saved @[email protected] £0.65 by using 1.87kWh of stored electricity.
Total battery savings since August 2023:
💷 £1,170.09
⚡ 3,447 kWh
FAQ: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/solar-faq/ -
@ascentale @bikenite Yes! Not an E-bike , but an old school exercise bike. In the early 2000s, my friend in Vermont had a set-up where if one wanted to watch TV, someone had to use the bike ! (She had enough juice from #Solar to run lightbulbs, but that was about it. Anything else was extra...)
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Proyectos solares de China están utilizando el espacio bajo los paneles para agricultura y restauración vegetal. La evidencia muestra resultados positivos en algunos terrenos degradados, aunque los impactos son específicos de cada ecosistema.
🔗 Lee el artículo completo en El Solidario https://elsolidario.com/china-paneles-solares-montanas-cultivos/
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The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:
#Wordle
#southafrica
#solar
#faith
#church
#volunteers
#bible
#prayerBased on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.
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Just had one of those "you don't know what you don't know until you know" moments. I'm not in a rush to get plug-in solar while they're still new to the UK market, but I did learn something useful about the planning rules in this article:
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New #Solar stats.
East facing solar panels 🆚 West facing solar panels.
London, UK.
Get all the data at https://gitlab.com/edent/solar-data/-/blob/main/README.md
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Interesting stuff goes on over there >>
#China 's oldest carmaker builds #solar #EV roof for additional range [and wants to try putting solar all over the car body]
https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/hongqi-perovskite-solar-sunroof-400-kwh-ev-range
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East/South East (8x 400w panels) panels generated - 10.6 kWh
West/North (6x 400w panels) panels generated - 5.6 kWh
Solar generated - 16.2 kWh
Solcast forecasted - 18.49 kWh
Imported from the grid - 21.9 kWh - Cost (inc standing charge) £2.32
Exported 11.5 kWh Export profit - £1.38
16.5 kWh went into the battery
Battery used - 14.7 kWh
House consumed - 21.2 kWh
Electricity cost for the day at 9pm (minus is a profit) is £0.94
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‘World’s first #solar ambulance’ just proved it works
https://www.cnn.com/world/africa/worlds-first-solar-ambulance-hnk-spc #emergencyservices
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RE: https://norden.social/@wackJackle/117174684472800069
Indoor, renewable energy-powered vertical farming.
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Californians! Call Governor Newsom at 916.445.2841 and ask him to sign SB868, the "balcony solar" bill into law! Plug-in solar is affordable and easy—just point at the sun and plug into a regular electrical outlet. By enabling millions of Californians to generate their own electricity with plug-in solar panels, this measure tackles the affordability, energy, and climate crises together.
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Plug-in solar in an urban setting
Having a really hot summer in France and very few clouds for weeks, I thought I’d do a little experiment with my beginner’s plug-in solar equipment.
The idea was to change my habits every week and to see how effective my two panels could be at offsetting my house’s power draw from the grid.
The gist of it is that by merely having my equipment and a small garden, I could avoid drawing almost a third; and by optimizing panels placement, erase two thirds of my weekly electricity usage.
I’ll be adding my notes further down.
The solar equipment that I have is
- 2x 400 W panels
- 1x micro inverter with two 400 W solar inputs, also one battery connection and one grid connection, each of which can sustain 600 W in both directions at the same time, and maximum 800 W combined to the grid
- 1x battery with 1 kWh capacity, 1200 W charging rate from the grid and 1800 W output rate (or 2400 W in short bursts)
- supports for the panels so that they can be placed on the ground, oriented and tilted towards the sun
The house also has a water/air heat pump (but no air conditioning) that cycles every now and then to keep the water at temperature. It is responsible for perhaps half of the remaining power draw at the best of times (August 11).
Appliances in the house: ventilation system, fridge, freezer. The house draws 110-280 W depending what appliances wake up.
As far as using the kitchen this August: I usually took eggs and coffee in the morning, a pot or two of tea during the day, then cooking that required sustained boiling water in the evening. Lunch didn’t require using the kitchen.
Disclaimer: I’m not an electrician, but I have an understanding of the concepts involved and my place is up to code.
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The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:
#Wordle
#southafrica
#solar
#socialmedia
#addiction
#faith
#bible
#prayerBased on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.
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Keep hearing good things about Octopus Energy. Not quite ready to switch supplier to them yet (mostly because OVO will almost certainly mess up our credit balance).
I have however just ordered one of the plug-in solar kits that they've just announced.
I think with the baseline draw that we have here we should get decent payback, and there's a nice spot on the garage roof for coverage.
Once I've finished my shed I'm tempted to do something down there too with battery storage.
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California passes legislation to make remote virtual inspections of home energy projects including solar, battery storage, and heat pump installations available statewide.
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The government wants people with rooftop solar to pay a fixed monthly fee to offset the cost of the electricity they're not using during sunny days (essentially a "solar tax"). Here's where you can have your say: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/electricity-transformation-paper/?utm_source=MastodonAfrica
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#California Legislature passes balcony #solar bill | Canary Media https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/balcony-solar/california-lawmakers-pass-bill-oking-balcony-solar
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Der Regen war heute so stark, dass die #Solar-Anlage Null (0,00) Watt Leistung gebracht hat. Um kurz vor 11!