Solar panels deliver a year of juice
12 Feb 2008 | 09:47 GMT
Bijli: the electrons get overexcited, you know
IT IS NIGH on a year since 15 solar panels were installed on the roof of INQ Central, so we thought we’d bring you this last update before we shuffle off our tabloid coil.
Since installation, the price of bijli (electricity) has gone up a bit, but we haven’t paid a bill since this time last year. Eon has been delivering cheques regularly, and we’re in credit, so have to keep remembering to get the supplier to refund us.
The two screen shots here need a little bit of explanation. The first one says that we’ve earned £270.99 pounds in the year, but that’s inaccurate. The Fronius software is a tad buggy. But the rest of the figures are about right.
The second shot shows the vagaries of the British weather graphically. April 2007 was a lovely month, but the rains set in June and July, and our summer was so wet that the swifts headed back to Africa much earlier than normal, poor souls.
If you’ve come to the pages of the INQ for the first time, then please try a search for solar panel to read our other stories on the subject.
So far, February is glorious! All God’s creatures think it’s Spring, poor deluded souls. µ
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