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October was looking like a poor month for solar generation but, things improved towards the end of the month. We generated 575kWh in total. Average was 18.6kWh, lowest 3.9kWh, highest 41.3kWh.

My South facing panels generated 411kWh, which is well below average for October. Average was 13.3kWh, lowest 2.2kWh, highest 29.6kWh.

164kWh of this was the extension solar, despite the sun being lower in the sky and these panels spending more time in shade. Average was 5.5kWh, lowest 1.7kWh, highest 11.7kWh. It is on the really bad solar days that these panels help the most, contributing nearly 50% of the generation.

We imported 682kWh (including EV charging) and pretty much all of this was at the cheap rate (7p/kWh). 433kWh was exported at 15p/kWh.

296kWh was used to charge our EV.