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Immersion Diversion - Do you turn off your boiler in summer?
Hi Guys! Just wondering how you guys with immersion heater diversion on your solar panel systems have things set up? I have my hot water to come on at 6pm for half an hour to top up the hot if its not a sunny day. The thermostat is set at just below the immersion, so if we get a good day the boiler wont need to fire up.…
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Help with a faulty solaredge power optimiser
Hello all, I had 13 LG solar pv panels installed in Jan 2016. The company that installed them has since ceased trading as they went bust. I also opted for solaredge power optimisers along with the inverter all of which have a warranty direct with solaredge. The power optimisers have a 25 year warranty and the inverter has…
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fiver for a 20 minute fast charge strikes the right balance
Below is an e-mail from Ecotricity, dated 7th July 2016. Basically, no more free electricity for my car. Dear Me Me Me I’m writing to you as a member of the Electric Highway to let you know of a significant change to our service. After five years of providing charging for free, we’re moving to a ‘charging for charging’…
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Counter offer from my Boss
Recently I got a good counter offer from my IT company when I submitted by resignation. Now I know how to bargain with HR department to get a good hike. I was working there for past 4 years and we only got the salary rise annually( the amount vary as per the total sales ). last month I got a much better offer from one of…
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Solar PV - paid for 4kw and got 3kw
Hi We were luckily enough to get one of the first solar PV feed in tarrifs. However - we had our system checked last week and although we have 4kw of solar panels our invertor is on 3kw. I understand that there is some 'flex' with these invertors - but looking at it - its maxing out at around 3.1 - 3.2kw. The installer has…
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Solar PV - Admin Error Leads to Lower Tariff....
Just looking to see if any resident experts here have seen this scenario before. Had solar PV installed. EPC Survey done X Day. PV Installed X Day + 9. Paperwork shows EPC was actually published on X Day + 40. MCS certificate (third version) shows the commissioning date of the system is also X Day +40. So under the new…
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Electric heating with smart thermostats?
I took out the old storage heaters in my flat as one wasn't working and the other was over 20 years old and looked a bit ugly. I need to work out the best solution for heating the flat in the future. I rarely used the storage heaters when they were in as the flat was never that cold. Being the middle flat it gets heating…
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Tesla to unveil home storage batteries
If anyone can shake up this market, Musk can... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/12/musk_to_unveil_home_storage_battery/
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Solar Maintenance
Received this today from my installer....Yes he still in business.:T Your thoughts?:D
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GeniusEnergy.co.uk Closed Down? .
I have been trying to get hold of Genius Energy in Solihull since xmas as my Solar System has stopped working, but none of the phones are being answered and the facebook and twitter account of Genius Energy has been taken down. In the end I called the salesman from genius who I got hold of on his mobile.(He has gone back…
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Solar Diverting switch
comparison. Now you can get dual output, WiFi sender, phone apps, logging, colour LCD readouts … all nice but all really just fluffy stuff. What I wanted was to divert as much surplus power as possible to my standard HW system .. no need to change immersion or thermostats. Every £1 you spend on this switch will directly…
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Government funding of Solar panels... new only?
Hi all, I see there is a lot of discussion on this forum on the Government scheme to get people to install solar panels. My question is pretty simple - I have a solar PV system bought from MyPlanet (yes I know that wasn't a great idea but it seemed so at the time). Does anyone know if the support the Gov't scheme offers…
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Savings account or PV?
A discussion that has been around these boards a lot is that of whether it's better to put money in the bank and get interest or into solar panels. Very often the discussion has started with some saying something like, 'well 8% a year from PV is better than 2% a year in the bank' followed by someone else pointing out that…
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Solar now seems much less efficient
With the recent sunny days I thought the solar system would work rather better, but found that especially the rear panels are now giving out less that 1kW when last year they gave out a lot more, enough to heat the hot water anyway. I tried to contact the supplier TP solar but they seem to have gone out of business. I then…
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Solar Panels - Energy Saving
From a link on this site I register to see if I was entitled to 'free' installation of panels. I received a phone call from a company and was advise the they had looked at a satalite of my house and I would, but there would be a £100 charge. Some one came around today and explained that due to my location I could have 16…
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Changing the clothing industry
Hi guys, For a long time I felt powerless due to the circumstances of the clothing industry but now I'm thinking of starting my own clothing label to make an actual change. I always thought it was impossible but why would it be? I might not have the money or the expertise but the people who did failed to improve the…
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Feed in Tariff Buy Back
Just had a cold call from a company called Imesco (www.imesco.com) offering to give me a quote to buy out my feed in tariff. Presumably a discounted capital sum based on what the panels would be earning over the remainder of their lives. On the "no such thing as a free lunch" principle I'm naturally assuming that whatever…
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Feed in tariff payments
Due to a faulty inverter, the readings on our generation meter stopped moving forward. Our inverter was finally replaced after a long time. As such, we did not receive any Feed in tariff payments during this time as we were not able to submit readings. 1) was energy still being exported to our power company during the time…
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Solar Thermal - Renewable Heat Incentive
I bought a new build last year that came with a Worcester Solar Thermal system (heats the hot water). According to the OFGEM site, my system is eligible for a Domestic RHi payment on a quarterly basis, subject to my application being accepted. The application requires the MCS Certificate Number which i don't have as it was…
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LST Radiators
Are these worth it for the home. Was thinking of installing these to be able to turn the heat down on the boiler and thus save money. My Radiators need replacing anyway as now over 20 years old.