23 August 2007
Sunny Science II
Someone in the Engineering department obviously reads my blog.
The University has issued this statement about the display thingy:
"...the numbers of the display have the following meaning:
- the top line displays the actual amount of electrical power in kilowatts being produced by the system. The display is updated with new readings every 2 minutes.
- the middle line shows how many kilowatthours of electricity the system has produced since it was commissioned in March 2007. As a reference the typical electricity consumption in the UK is around 3,500 kWh (= 3.5MWh) per year
- the bottom line shows the amount (in tonnes) of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that are avoided by the generation of the PV system. This amount of CO2 would have been added to the atmosphere if the PV system had not been in operation. Again this amount relates to the operation of the system since the commissioning in March 2007.
Unfortunately, adding this information to the display would have made it very cluttered..."
Isn't Alby clever?
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If the numbers are true, that means since it was commissioned until you posted on your blog it'd produced equivalent to 0.232% of the electricity consumption in the UK for a year.
Posted by: Roger | 23 August 2007
"Isn't Alby clever?"
Why yes! :o)
Posted by: Alby | 24 August 2007
I really don't believe that the UK only generates 3.5MWh in a year. Seems awfully low to me. Perhaps it's 3.5MWh of clean energy production.
Posted by: Alby | 24 August 2007
Yeah, I don't think that my comment shows my skepticism as much as I'd intended (considering that power stations are measured in MW). According to various pages about the web, the electricity consumption in 2003 was about 346 bilion kWh, or a factor of a 100 million out from Clurb's numbers.
Posted by: Roger | 28 August 2007
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