Add Info about User's Solar Panels

[jonathanpiflowers]

The site is simply brilliant - astonishing how much difference a few hours makes.

Being greedy, a thing I'd find really helpful for my specific context is to be able to give info about my solar panels, so that it would take that into account too!

[mrsheepuk]

Hi @jonathanpiflowers - can you suggest how you'd want them to be taken into account?

It could be quite tricky without adding in a weather feed to work out exactly how much power you're likely to have available from your panels, but I might be missing something more simple.

[jonathanpiflowers]

Hi I presume there’s a weather-related feed for the wind? I’d want to put in (say) the max capacity of my panels so the site could take account of likely sunshine or something. Though to be honest I suspect that the answer to the question for me or anyone else with solar panels is always “when the sun is shining”. J Jonathan Flowers E ***@***.*** T 07957167284 W www.jonathanflowers.com Sent from a mobile device with autocorrect

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[mrsheepuk]

The National Grid use the weather in coming up with the estimates, absolutely, but that's unfortunately well outside the scope of what we've got going on here (which is just making the raw National Grid data accessible/understandable).

We could certainly add a checkbox to add in details of solar panels, but I think you are right that the answer is indeed always going to be if you have local 100% CO2 free energy, use it and use it quick! 😂