{"id":66862,"date":"2022-10-24T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=66862"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:05:33","slug":"solar-morning-evening-mb2685","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-morning-evening-mb2685\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Solar Power Outside Peak Sun Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/solar-morning-evening.jpg\" alt=\"Solar power outside peak sun hours\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/solar-morning-evening.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/solar-morning-evening-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/solar-morning-evening-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/solar-morning-evening-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How much power can a solar system crank well outside of the &#8220;golden hours&#8221; for PV electricity generation? Here&#8217;s an example.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While peak sun hours generally fall between 10AM &#8211; 4PM, even not long after sunrise and towards sunset can see useful levels of power generated.<\/p>\n<p>Making the most of solar power is about maximising self-consumption; running power-hungry appliances during high solar energy production hours where possible in order to minimise mains grid electricity consumption. But lower-power appliances can start running purely off your solar panel output not long after the sun has cleared the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>I recently had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/10kw\/\"> 10kW solar system<\/a> installed consisting of 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/trina-review.html\"> Trina Solar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/trina-solar-vertex-s-plus-mb2391\/\"> Vertex S+ panels<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/fronius-review.html\"> Fronius inverter<\/a> (Primo 8.2-1) and Fronius smart meter. It&#8217;s not a perfect setup in terms of panel orientations (2 roof faces &#8211; NNE and WNW) and our current energy consumption profile<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-morning-evening-mb2685\/#en-66862-1' id='enref-66862-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(66862)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, but not particularly bad either.<\/p>\n<p>During its first week of life on our home&#8217;s rooftop, I was keeping a pretty close eye on things, watching system performance under various conditions courtesy of the real-time reporting generated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarweb.com\/\">Fronius Solar.web<\/a>. This service also offers various daily, weekly and monthly reporting options as well, with reports you can download in CSV or Excel format\u00a0 to peruse at your leisure.<\/p>\n<h2>Spring In Our Solar Step<\/h2>\n<p>Spring is a pretty good time for solar energy production given the longer daylight hours, (generally) clearer skies and often mild daytime temperatures (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/temperature-coefficient\/\">heat is the enemy of solar panel efficiency<\/a>). While this spring has been a bit crap on the clear skies front to date in Adelaide,\u00a0 here&#8217;s how things panned out in terms of power output on a clear, mild day in late September up to around mid-morning and then from late afternoon.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inverter had &#8220;woken up&#8221; by 5.38 AM<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-morning-evening-mb2685\/#en-66862-2' id='enref-66862-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(66862)'>2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>Sunrise began at 6.03 am<\/li>\n<li>6.04 AM: 10W &#8211; enough to power an LED light fixture<\/li>\n<li>By the time the sun had cleared the horizon (but houses in the way) &#8211; around 50W.<\/li>\n<li>6.15 AM: 100W &#8211; enough to power a few LED lights and a notebook, with capacity to spare.<\/li>\n<li>6.50 AM: 1kW &#8211; more than enough to start the washing machine (cold cycle) as well.<\/li>\n<li>7.15 AM: 2kW &#8211; turn on the big screen (LED) TV while waiting on the washing. You&#8217;ll still have power to spare.<\/li>\n<li>8.10 AM: 4kW &#8211; along with everything else above, the kettle could go on &#8211; and that only draws for a couple of minutes. Among other appliances that could be used is a microwave oven or a vaccuum cleaner. You could start loading up at this point.<\/li>\n<li>8.35 AM: 5kW output.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.. and so on, until around 10.25 AM when the system had reached its maximum output (while I was testing) with various appliances in use and the SAPN-imposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-export-limiting\/\"> solar export limit<\/a> of 5kW in play. It reached about 7.93kW output at its best while fiddling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/solar-power-output.png\" alt=\"solar power output - 10kW system\" width=\"900\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/solar-power-output.png 900w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/solar-power-output-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/solar-power-output-768x540.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But we should have whacked on another appliance to see if we could squeeze a bit more out of it; bearing in mind while there&#8217;s 10kW of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\"> solar panels<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/\"> solar inverter<\/a> is rated at 8.2kW. Having more panel capacity than inverter capacity is a common practice called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/oversizing-solar-arrays\/\">oversizing &#8211; explained here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then towards the evening, I kept an eye on output at various stages again:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 PM: 4kW<\/li>\n<li>4.15 PM: 3.4kW<\/li>\n<li>4.30 PM: 2.8kW<\/li>\n<li>4.45 PM: 2.3kW<\/li>\n<li>5 PM: 1.8kW<\/li>\n<li>5:15 PM: 1.5kW<\/li>\n<li>5.30 PM: 750W<\/li>\n<li>5.45 PM: 280W<\/li>\n<li>6 PM: 196W<\/li>\n<li>Sunset (sun down over horizon): 6:13pm<\/li>\n<li>6:15 PM: 0W<\/li>\n<li>Last light &#8211; 6:38pm.<\/li>\n<li>6.47 PM inverter goes offline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Something I failed to do was set up daily energy<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-morning-evening-mb2685\/#en-66862-3' id='enref-66862-3' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(66862)'>3<\/a><\/sup> production reporting (5 minute intervals) in Fronius Solar.web &#8211; which was rather silly. It would have been useful to show total energy production for those two periods on that day<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-morning-evening-mb2685\/#en-66862-4' id='enref-66862-4' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(66862)'>4<\/a><\/sup>. But even without this information, the above shows a largish solar power system can make worthy contribution well outside of peak sun hours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much power can a solar system crank well outside of the &#8220;golden hours&#8221; for PV electricity generation? Here&#8217;s an example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":66864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Home Solar Power Outside Peak Sun Hours - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How much power can a solar system crank well outside of the &quot;golden hours&quot; for\u00a0 PV electricity generation? 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