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Solar Battery Plans - enough?
I have 3.24KWp solar system consisting of 12 x 270w PV panels. When they were installed in 2017, a battery wasn't recommended. I'm now planning to get a battery installed. I've gone for 6kwh because, at £4.5k installed, it'll be paid for by a recent windfall. And it was recommended by the installers. Now I'm thinking - is…
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Heat Battery
I heard a mention of this piece of technology this weekend; something I had not come across before. As far as I can tell a "heat battery" works like a thermal store but rather than using water as the storage medium it uses a material that undergoes a phase change at around 60 C. Cooling through a phase change often…
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Insulating Eaves of a loft conversion - Have I messed up?
Hi guys, Have an existing loft conversion that has an uninsulated eves in one side for storage with a small hatch on the purlin wall for access. The Purlin wall is insulated, but the small door seem to let in cold air. I want to use the eves for storage, but its not insulated and gets very dusty as this side of the roof is…
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Solar panel quotes
Hi all, I have been exploring solar panels and received multiple quotes and whittled it down to 3. I am looking to get 3 panels on my south roof and 7 on my east as it's the maximum I can fit on. Quote 1 - 10 JA Solar 435w with 10 Enphase microinverters. 4100kwh generation per year. £7k cost all in. Quote 2 - 10 Trina 410w…
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LG 10kW DC coupled Battery for £4K installed - ideal for SolarEdge PV only systems
https://spgrenewables.com/products/aa9a136 I'm not one to tout batteries, mainly due to the poor return on investment for households importing <4k kWh per year but at £4K installed (including Modbus & hardware), this seems like a very attractive price for an DC coupled LG battery. SolarEdge will honour warranties for all…
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EV charging using Solar with Zappi - is it worth it?
I am relatively new to having an EV. We were advised to get a Zappi charger as we had solar panels already. This may seem like a dim question, but I am not sure if I am understanding correctly. My query is as follows: We are on the Intelligent Octopus go tariff and therefore get rates of 7.5p/kWH in the night. We have a…
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Green credentials re flying
A number of councils are now adopting a policy to avoid billboard advertising for carbon fuelled cars, air flights and other activities which increase global warming. MSE recently encouraged people to sign up quickly for cheap flights. Is this a good idea, or should MSE be promoting alternative forms of travel which are…
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Problem with DNC for signing up to Octupus for solar payments
I have been trying to set up the excess solar generation output with Octopus, to get a little bit of money back from the stuff we don't manage to use in the summer months, and Octopus have thrown it back at us with "...have received a rejection from your DNO as they have been notified of a Declared Net Capacity (DNC)…
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Solar PV with microinverters
Any other companies apart from Heatable that offer solar PV with microinverters?
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Huawei Luna Battery Fusion Solar app settings help needed
Hello, I would really appreciate some help please. I think there is something wrong with my battery settings (5kW luna) Here is a photo of the settings. The PV system was set up for electricity to go to my iBoost first then house then battery, then export. Please can someone tell me if these settings are correct as my…
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Recommend SolarEdge Installer covering Norwich area?
I want Solar PV on 2 roofs (5kw each approx) and a SolarEdge Hybrid Inverter with the new SolarEdge 10kwh battery, but having problems finding installers, just 1 quote so far. Anyone recommend a SE installer in Norwich/Norfolk?
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Solaredge Battery Settings
Hi, Does anyone happen to know how to get access to the more sophisticated battery settings as shown in this document ... https://knowledge-center.solaredge.com/sites/kc/files/storedge_charge_discharge_profile_programming.pdf All that I see are three simple options, Time of Use, Maximise Self Consumption and Manual…
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EV Road Tax - renew in March
If you have an EV & the V5 is in your own name you should renew the tax in March 2024 or 2025. This will mean you get zero duty right up to 03/26 rather than paying £180 VED from whenever your tax expires after 03/25. Go onto the DVLA site as usual & tick the box that to say you haven't got the reminder. It'll ask you for…
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Solar Panel, Inverter, Battery prices over last six months
Hi, Our installation has been stalled for months due to stupid design errors by the installer. Soon, figers crossed, we may be able to move on. Over the last say six months have solar panel etc prices gone up, or have cheaper versions been launched? We were talking about Solaredge with Q-cells panels but given the history…
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Solar I boost problems
I have a solar I boost that reads ' water heating off' then the sun will come out and read 'heating by solar 0.00kw then will switch to 'how water tank hot' even though the water is cold. Had the thermostat and element checked and all is fine. We are still exporting, but does this sound like a faulty I boost issue. Very…
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Save on toilet roll (Women only) save £70 a year with wipes
I got so annoyed by not being able to buy recycled toilet paper in paper (not plastic) wrapping, that I made my own from old brushed cotton sheets. I'm using 20cm squares for wee ONLY and just adding them to the normal wash. I am buying toilet paper so seldom now and I worked out that it's saving me about £70 a year. It…
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Tomato Energy
Hi all, Anyone had any experience of this company? Supplying energy and/or solar panel installation? I've had a guy around and the solar panel/battery storage looks interesting, but there are very few online reviews. Any response gratefully received. D.
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Solar from Octo pus
Hi, Had a quote from Octo pus for solar. 13 panels (JA Solar 435w) 13 micro inverters (enphase 360w) 2 enphase batteries 5kw and bird kit. Around 12k Does the above sound reasonable and would 360w inverters be OK with 435w panels? Also, they are not doing physical surveys, just remote. I wanted panels on front (5hrs sun)…
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Eon incorrect solar inverter installed advice sought
July 21 we had 6 additional panels and a storage battery added by eon to a existing system supplied by another company. At the time we had issues with the installation not working correctly which we emailed both eon and the installer numerous times asking for help and training on the new system, we never got anywhere nor…
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Comparing solar proposals
I've had two solar surveys and proposals/quotes from two local companies - and having read through some threads here am thinking that I might need to try to get more! There's a significant difference between the proposals - not least that one proposes 23 x Jinko 440W panels, and the other 14 Trina 415W (I see both brands…
