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[Sticky] Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures

Mars · 2021-03-16T16:40:26Z

A thread to post your great, not so great and downright awful stats about solar PV production.

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Papahuhu

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02/01/2026 12:23 pm

@toodles

You are lucky you don’t have nosy and interfering neighbours. If I so much as approach a TPO tree with a pole saw I get them taking photos of me. We have a massive horse chestnut on our boundary that was suffering from the newly invasive horse chestnut miner moth. So I hoisted a pheromone trap into the tree to try and limit the damage, the next day I had the planning department knocking on my door to investigate.

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Toodles

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02/01/2026 12:27 pm

@papahuhu They came to ‘axe you’ what you were up to?

Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.

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Majordennisbloodnok

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02/01/2026 12:56 pm

Posted by: @papahuhu

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@toodles

You are lucky you don’t have nosy and interfering neighbours. If I so much as approach a TPO tree with a pole saw I get them taking photos of me. We have a massive horse chestnut on our boundary that was suffering from the newly invasive horse chestnut miner moth. So I hoisted a pheromone trap into the tree to try and limit the damage, the next day I had the planning department knocking on my door to investigate.

I can't help but feel the answer to that is to do a daily "adjustment" to or "investigation" of that pheromone trap. After a few days of the same report from your neighbours, I'd imagine the planning department'd become a little slower to pop round. Crying "Wolf" can work in your favour....

105 m2 bungalow in South East England
Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5 kW air source heat pump
18 x 360W solar panels
1 x 6 kW GroWatt battery and SPH5000 inverter
1 x Myenergi Zappi
1 x VW ID3
Raised beds for home-grown veg and chickens for eggs

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Papahuhu

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02/01/2026 1:37 pm

@majordennisbloodnok

Lot of retired folk round here, unfortunately for them and me, with nothing better to do. If I really wanted to get rid of the trees (or perhaps the neighbours too 😀) a couple of copper nails is all it would take.

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Toodles

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02/01/2026 1:48 pm

@papahuhu Driven into their feet?!

Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.

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Transparent

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02/01/2026 2:03 pm

@editor - here's my take on your December generation figures:

Save energy... recycle electrons!

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