No Solar electric to home meter?

[Mike Welford]

Output from Inverter is very good but it has not reduced our home electric consumption over a six month period? Some say I have wrong meter type or panels are too far from meter (about 75 yards) Help please

 

[dansk]

maybe the PV is connected before your main import meter - ive seen this the other day on another firms install.

Infact - any chance of a photo at the point of connection.

 

[WRDEnergy]

Is the system going into the existing consumer unit ? or its own seperate one (like one you might use for a garage) perhaps they have it setup like this going to a henly block so its all just going down the mains rather than though the consumer unit with the appliances on (not sure if it would work that way as havent tried but just an idea)

 

[Gary K]

A visual check when the sun comes out will tell you whether the panels are reducing your bills -if the import drops when the sun comes out from behind a cloud then you are OK. You could turn off most of the curcuits in the house( but not the one connected to the inverter) and just leave on a couple of lightbulbs so that you have a steady current draw- If you have an energy monitor connected to one of the tails of the consumer unit, it would be obvious-you would have to work out whether you are importing or exporting as monitor will read both.

 

[Somecamel]

On a sunny day just turn everything off and see if the light on your main intake meter is red or if a dial meter it has stopped, if it doesn't it's probably wired up wrong

 

[sedgy34]

Post some pics so we can see if there is a problem

 

[danesol]

Output from Inverter is very good but it has not reduced our home electric consumption over a six month period? Some say I have wrong meter type or panels are too far from meter (about 75 yards) Help please

Not enough info to make any real comments or assumptions.... unfortunately

For example:- Are you using a monitoring device to qualify that consumption statement or reviewing the main import meter ( Does your utility company estimate your electric reading or do you provide regular readings ) ?

What FiTs meter have you got and what type of consumer import meter was already in the property

How does the PV installation connect to the mains via the CU or an Henley Block ??

Distance of panels from mains connection irrelevant given its installed correctly, all that really matters is that your FiTs meter is clocking up the Kw's

btw - if you dont consume your generated electric at the time of generation, it naturally wont reduce your consumption anyway. example if you generate 15kw at lunchtime and dont use any volume of electric till after 6pm - you naturally wont be able to take advantage of your generated electric, unless you have a backup battery system such as the SMA Sunnyboy Backup