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Looking to get solar panels
I'm sure there's been thousands of threads like these, but I guess each one is also unique. Just starting to look into solar. Heard back from Silvercrest energy, who are also solartherm UK from what I can gather. They've quoted a 3.7KW system, made up of 10x 370W panels, on an almost south facing roof. There is a chimney…
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Project Solar - PV and Battery with Social Energy - Mis-sold?
Hello,My brother-in-law was talked into having a 3.3kWp solar array with a 3.3kWh Duracell Energy Bank battery (and the promise of a second battery to be installed in April 2020) installed in December 2019 by a Project Solar salesman. As I understand it, the entire thing was funded by a £10,500 loan at 9.9% over 10…
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Today’s mini budget: environmental measures
Looking forward to the detail on this, particularly the EV development projects: Some £100m of new funding has been set aside for direct air capture, a technology that takes carbon dioxide out of the air, while an extra £10m will be given for new electric car development projects.…
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Rishi Sunak’s mini budget: green upgrades
In the mini budget today: Homeowners can benefit from £2bn of grants to pay for “green” upgrades to make their houses more energy efficient. Vouchers worth up to £5,000 will be issued while poorer households could get up to £10,000 to make the upgrades, such as loft and wall insulation. It will provide at least £2 for…
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Specific EV Charger - why bother?
Hi, Not sure if this is too techie for here but it's worth a shot... I get a company car and have just had a new Mercedes Hybrid delivered. I also get the benefit of free personal fuel which works out to cost about £100 a month in personal tax. As such it would technically cost me more to charge the car at home rather than…
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PV inverter still not working, who can I complain to?
Hello, I am looking for some advice. We had solar panels fitted March 2019. The system has stopped working 3 times., I have lost about 2 months of generation last summer and it's now not been working since April. We have a solaredge Inverter which they diagnosed as being faulty and even sent as new one in June which we had…
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Pet Food Pouch Recycling
Hi all! I've recently discovered this scheme which collects pet food pouches to be recycled. https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/brigades/petfood Food pouches from our little feline make up the bulk of our non-recyclable rubbish, so I'm keen to use it. When you donate you can redeem points which turn into donations for a…
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Cost effectiveness of insulation?
I'm surprised to see fairly little discussion of insulation on this forum - is there a reason for that? Looking around the forum, the gist seems to be that a newly-fitted 4kW solar system on a typical house should be able to pay for itself in about 8 years, batteries are currently a bit of a non-starter, and ASHP/GSHPs -…
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'Green' pension providers
I have two 'dormant' pension pots from long-ago previous jobs - roughly £30K with Scottish Widows and £7K with Standard Life. I'd like to combine these into one pot and transfer it to something 'green' (for me, that means not supporting fossil fuels). I don't want to manage the portfolio myself or anything like that, and…
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Swapping FIT/Export from Bulb to Octopus
Hi all We have a 3kW array that was installed a few years ago. Current generation payment is somewhere around 17p per kwh and export payment 5p. We are currently with Bulb for Gas/Electric and FIT/Export. The way we have our account setup means our FIT Generation/Export payments go as credit onto our gas/electric bill…
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Whos greener, Octopus Energy or Scottish Power?
Looking to switch and from a price perspective its between these two. Would like to go with the one doing the most to make a difference to climate change but cant decide, grateful for thoughts!
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Best ever solar generation for March
Do you have solar panels in the UK? How did your data compare for March 2020? March for us (South East England) was significantly higher than previous years with 330kWh produced compared to an average of 270kWh over the last 8 years so over 20% above average. Quite handy as we're now working from home every day! Full data…
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Co-Op no longer paying FiT
Just had an email that they will no longer be licensed after this quarter. Any suggestions for new supplier that might offer pain-free transfer and pay a little quicker than they did! Thanks
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Living a 1.5C lifestyle
I've been following this on Treehugger and thought it might be interesting to people on here. The linked report, "1.5-Degree Lifestyles: Targets and options for reducing lifestyle carbon footprints", analyses the carbon footprint of household lifestyles and how changes can contribute to meeting the ambitious 1.5-degree…
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Reducing water usage
I thought I would kick off a thread to see if there is interest in discussing ways to save water. After all, every drop that comes out of the tap has to be collected, cleaned and piped to enable that to happen and that involves chemicals and electricity etc. A significant amount of what comes out of the tap has to be…
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Battery Electric Vehicle News / Enjoying the Transportation Revolution
I thought a more specific thread/title might be useful for posting news on BEV's (and EV's in general), given that we have threads to discuss the minutia about EV ownership, but perhaps a thread just for the news might be useful. Disclaimer from the start, BEV news can easily become Tesla heavy, so posts, especially mine,…
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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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reGAIN app turn your unwanted clothes to discount coupons
I saw this recently when reading something online and thought it was an interesting idea however I'm yet to try. https://regain-app.com/ https://regain-app.com/how-the-application-works/ I sell my unwanted clothes usually but most of them are high street brands so I don't get much so I suppose getting a discount coupon…
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"Fashion is the second most environmentally damaging industry....
....after coal and oil". That was according to Stacey Dooley Investigates Fashion's Dirty Secret on BBC2 last night (available on iPlayer of course). Seemed a strong statement, but even so, I had no idea it was so bad. Rather relevant to this consumer related website I thought. Well worth a watch. Particularly annoying was…
