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01/03/2026 3:50 pm  

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@mk4 Sorry, I hope my green hue is not offending you.🤢 Toodles.

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01/03/2026 3:55 pm  

@mk4 I’m green with envy - more than twice my February solar production; may I enquire the capacity of your solar array please? Regards, Toodles.


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01/03/2026 4:07 pm  

@toodles 

OK, sorry I didn’t get it…. we have almost 8kwp, half of them facing S/SE and half N/NW

I guess you know though that the grass is always greener on the other side!

We may have had a nice energy yield but we are facing a draught… last December, Athens was declared in a state of emergency as the water reserves level had dropped to 40% of what it should normally be. Fortunately we had a lot of rain in January and February plus some snow and the situation has improved.


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01/03/2026 4:27 pm  

@mk4 We have 8.1 kWp. but less than ideally orientated with some degree of shading at times. As to the rain, well …. we seem to have had our fair share lately! (SE England) Regards,Toodles.


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01/03/2026 9:55 pm  

It's my first year with solar on the current house so no precise years to compare it with. It has been a very wet February with most days seeming to be cloudy and not much solar so I was surprised to see we have generated over 200kWh, very similar to Toddles figure.

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02/03/2026 9:00 am  

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@mk4 We have 8.1 kWp. but less than ideally orientated with some degree of shading at times. As to the rain, well …. we seem to have had our fair share lately! (SE England) Regards,Toodles.

If your inverter can support two strings, perhaps you could have all the shaded panels in one string and the ones that are never shaded in another. We did this with our panels, the ones placed W/NW do not get much light during winter but they thrive in the summer, so we have them in a separate string.

BTW, I love your trailing signature, I’ve meaning to tell you for some time, but only after our last interaction did I get its full meaning. I guess humor is not my strongest of points….

 



   
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02/03/2026 9:17 am  

@mk4 All 21 panels have their own Enphase IQ7a microinverter and these are sent as two arrays to the Tesla Gateway. 5 on house roof, 4 on flat roof, 2 on workshop roof and 10 mounted in the garden. Glad you like my sig. line😊. Toodles.


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