Since I reluctantly decided to add Sheffield University's *estimated* solar output to Gridwatch, I thought it might be amusing to contrast all those wonderful planet saving solar PV panels with the rest of thge grid to see how jolly well they are doi8ng in this glorious Novenmber sunshine.
So what was the AVERAGE contribution of all those panels in November?
mysql> select avg(solar) from day where timestamp like '2016-11%';
+------------------+ | avg(solar) | +------------------+ | 559.568368330637 | +------------------+ Golly. Over 10GW of panels installed say the renewable chappies and chappesses. And they barely scrape in 5% of that on average.WEll at least at that level at what - 50p a unit FIT? - its only costing us £6m a day more than sensible alternatives.
In summer it might be £20m a day...Almost half of what we waste on the EU, wasted on solar power.
The EU and climate legislation costs us a LOT..