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<\/a><\/p>\nThe average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of October was 53.98kWh, we have quite a large variation in solar production from a low of 3.36kWh up to a high of 22.51kWh.<\/p>\n
This in turn reflects quite visibly in the cost chart where we have a low of \u00a30.28 and a high of \u00a37.31 for peak electric usage.<\/p>\n
It is easy to see from the Electricity cost graph which days were overcast\/wet as they have much larger dark blue sections, the see-saw\/sawtooth pattern for the Off-Peak is again largely due to whether or not the car was charged that night.<\/p>\n
The average peak to off-peak percentage usage for the month was 32.04%, so not quite hitting the desired 25% or better reversal from pre solar, and skewed even more towards peak because of the bad weather.<\/p>\n
Average usage: off-peak 28.86kWh, peak 14.60kWh, total 43.46kWh<\/p>\n
Average costs: off-peak \u00a32.02, peak \u00a33.90, total \u00a36.36 (including standing charge of \u00a30.4557)<\/p>\n
October Gas:<\/p>\n
The gas was off for the some of the month, turned back on for 11-15, off again for 16-17 and then on again for the remainder of the month.<\/p>\n Highest gas usage was 80.595kWh and the lowest 8.192kWh – \u00a34.52 and \u00a30.71 respectively (including the standing charge of \u00a30.2747).<\/p>\n Average usage: 39.45kWh, average gas tariff was \u00a30.0539 – up by a penny or more on last month.<\/p>\n Average cost: \u00a32.41 (including standing charge of \u00a30.2747)<\/p>\n Total daily energy average cost for October: \u00a38.77 (including standing charges of \u00a30.7304).<\/p>\n Total costs for October were \u00a362.62 off-peak, \u00a3120.94 peak, \u00a374.794 gas, \u00a3271.88 overall (including standing charge of \u00a322.95).<\/p>\n October 2023 costs were \u00a350.26 off-peak, \u00a3395.40 peak, \u00a332.45 gas, \u00a3491.03 overall (including standing charge of \u00a320.82).<\/p>\n This is a 45% saving for compared to 2023!<\/p>\n October costs for 2024 using Dec 2023 E-ON tariffs \u00a3112.36 off-peak, \u00a3157.77 peak, \u00a387.60 gas, \u00a3357.73 overall (including standing charge of \u00a331.37).<\/p>\n So the practical saving was \u00a384.55 vs staying on my old E-ON tariffs.<\/p>\n I also had my SEG tariff and was able to export a total of 10.70kWh of electricity at \u00a30.15 per kWh for a total saving of \u00a31.61.<\/p>\n Even worse than last month very few sunny days and lots of rain this month.<\/p>\n I will again use the same assumption as last month of 14.5kWh of battery, there no days where I carried battery charge to the next day.<\/p>\n So for this month, I have 31 days of solar production which means 14.5kWh x 31 days = 449.50kWh for the batteries that need to ‘swap’ from off-peak to peak rate.<\/p>\n I then produced 350.58kWh of solar, 10.70kWh of which was given back to the grid.<\/p>\n This means that the additional savings for having solar and batteries are (350.58kWh * (\u00a30.2672 – \u00a30.070)) + ((350.58-10.70)kWh) * \u00a30.2672), = (350.58kWh * \u00a30.1972) + (339.88kWh * \u00a30.2672) = \u00a388.62 + \u00a390.80 = \u00a3179.43<\/p>\n Which in effect means that I have saved \u00a3179.43 + \u00a384.55 + \u00a31.61 = \u00a3265.58 compared to my old E-ON tariff and no solar\/batteries for the month of October.<\/p>\n These are the graphs of forecast vs actual production:<\/p>\n Month on month usage and cost graphs for 2024 (including exports) for Electricity:<\/p>\n and the same for Gas:<\/p>\n Slightly up, as expected with turning the heating on and lower levels of sun.<\/p>\n Current savings to date vs my old E-ON tariff is \u00a32,240.73.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the sixth full month with the solar being active. Energy prices went up this month, peak electricity went up from \u00a30.2439\/kWh to \u00a30.2672\/kWh, off-peak electricity remained at \u00a30.70\/kWh and the standing charge went up from \u00a30.4785\/day to \u00a30.4879\/day. October Electric: The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of October was 53.98kWh,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n