And links to data from earlier in the year for each month:
August to November 2011

May to July 2011

April 2011

March 2011

Generation_Graphs_2011

But just in case you can’t be bothered downloading the file and having a look, here’s the most interesting graph:

You can see that as we head into the summer months we get a dramatic increase in energy generated compared to the winter months.

There’s not much more to do than eat vegan food in Melbourne.

We visited Lord of the Fries several times to eat fries, burgers, onion rings and check out the vegan french canadian sauce (gravy with cheese). Las Vegan bakery fed us a not at all spicy mexican spicy beans dish while Soul Food Cafe served up rather uninspired breakfast options (compared to the awesome breakfast at Monk Bodhi Dharma last time we visited Melbourne) when all I really felt like was fruit after getting off the overnight bus.

La Panella, the bakery with many vegan options, provided lots of doughnut goodness and Yong Green gave Benno the chance to eat Korean BBQ and kimchi without fish sauce. The East Brunswick Club was meant to be open but wasn’t so Vego2Go gave us some simple food and tasty vegan desserts like tiramisu and trifle.

Our hotel was near the Queen Victoria Markets so one morning we visited Invita but apart from having nice juices, their food options are really lame and the salads were not that enjoyable. However our hotel was close to the chinese restaurant White Lotus Vegetarian which was able to do all the favourites like sweet and sour v. pork and pineapple fritters. They even had a whole v fish on their menu but I have to say, VDs on Port road still does the best sweet and sour pork.

Solar Electricity for the months June/July 2011

Over the months of June and July we generated 547.8 kwh and exported 404.9 kwh of that.

To compare the past 5 months:

Electricity March to July

During the past month we exported about 60% of March’s export, or 380 kWh. We generated 455.6 kWh, down from the month of March due to the approaching winter months. We used 75.5kWh of what was generated – less than last month- and imported 98.6 kWh which was also slightly less that our import during March.

On average, our daily generation was 15.19 kWh, our daily export 12.67 kWh, our daily use from the panels 2.52 kWh and daily import 3.29 kWh.

You can compare these daily averages with those from March, here.

Even if we are generating less electricity now, the rains are filling our 18,500L tank and the whole house and garden is running off of rain water now. As long as we get a decent rain every week or so we can continue to exclusively use rain water for the next 8 months or so until summer hits again. Currently, we think the tank is a little over half full. It makes for much nicer drinking water in the house.

And after that, there’s nothing better than hot waffles and soy icecream from Eggless, or tea in a cute sakura pot or hot apple caramel cake with soy icecream.

In total, over the month they have been installed, they have generated 610.2kWh. We have exported 508.2kWh of what was generated (83%), used 120kWh of pure solar energy as it was generated during the day and bought back from the grid 113.3kWh for use overnight when the panels have no sun.

Our average daily solar power generation was 19.7kWh (with a maximum of 28.97kWh and a minimum of about 5kWh on one very wet and cloudy day). Our average daily export was 16.4kWh, we used on average 3.9kWh of solar energy during the day and 3.65kWh imported from the grid overnight (average daily use 7.55kWh). Benno should probably write on his website that Transmog is a solar-run business.