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How we reduced our heating gas consumption by 25%
2021 vs. 2022 comparison of actual kWh winter heating consumption (will update this thread in March to account for temperature variance). The reduction in consumption is measurable, so wanted to share how we were able to substantially reduce our property's heating gas consumption. Appreciate that not everything will be…
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WANTED: Men’s Skin Care & Hygiene brands for Teenager
:) Please suggest any male brands skin care and hygiene range with highly reduce chemicals. Looking to reduce my teenagers son exposure to ingredients like aluminium, parabens etc in his deodorant and skin care range. My son would only use male branded products and not the general family range as ‘they are for females’. I…
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Solar PV and Octopus- DNO, MCS, MPAN (etc) Formalities
We're not there yet but I want to understand in advance as much as possible about the formalities around getting set up for an export tariff. We're an existing Octopus customer and will be going initially with their fixed export. The installation has a G99 application approved. At what stage do we get the "DNO Letter" that…
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Which EV home charger?
I'm not sure which one to go for so hoping someone might be able to advise!I have solar and batteries (6.2 and 13) and have just purchased a Nissan Leaf. Would like to be able to take advantage of the Intelligent Octopus tariff, so limited to a few chargers - https://octopus.energy/get-an-ev-charger/I did look at V2H, but…
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ESE Solar Panel Free Health Check
Received a letter today marked "Important" from a company called ESE. "Our records indicate you haven't received your free health check and service on your system and your warranty may be due to expire. Please contact our team to validate your warranty and book your health check" The company is nothing to do with the…
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Expanding an existing PV System with more panels
Greetings! I was fortunate to be able to help a forum member with their system last year and then expand their system substantially this year, in a manner not too dissimilar to my own PV system expansion. I wondered if: 1) The DNO needs to be notified of the additional panels if the inverter has not changed? He's on a G99.…
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Luxpower 3.6k Discharge Limit
I have 5kW PV 6.4kW batteries and Luxpower 3.6 inverter. Since the Luxpower server debacle of a week or two ago, my inverter is now limited to 3kw discharge from the batteries. Even on forced discharge. I used to get 3.6kW. I suspect in my efforts to communicate with the inverter I have reset something? Discharge limit is…
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Octopus Eco 7
I have battery storage and now that winter is here my solar panels are somewhat lacklustre. As such I was considering moving to Octopus Eco 7 to take advantage of the nighttime rates to charge the batteries. I am currently on their Flexible Tariff and it has taken them almost 8 months to get my billing with my export…
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Solar Thermal
Just came across this https://sahp.info/sahp-retrofit Is it possible to integrate this or similar into a normal fossil fuel wet hot water system?
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Barclays Greener Home Reward
Many mortgage companies are doing some kind of grant or borrowing for eco improvements. However the Barclays one is actually pretty decent: https://www.barclays.co.uk/mortgages/greener-home-reward/ It's £2000 towards a heat pump, or £1000 towards solar, or lesser payments towards insulation etc. If you are a Barclays…
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Solar Together and retrofit batteries
Solar Together has finally come to Cheshire and I signed up to see what was being offered for retrofit batteries. As the design is based on very basic questions, the first step is to work out whether the design is right for me (step 2 is the price). I have been offered 3kWh, 6kWh, 9kWh or 12.1kWh Growatt batteries &…
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Switch Energy
Not a government company. A separate company that claim back their subbed out work to the energy companies. Very suspicious. They even offered me £1k on completion of ASHP!
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A Year with V2H
Not sure if folks on here will find this interesting but hopefully this tech will be coming to general availability rather than just trials sooner rather than later so here is a post I put on the V2X facebook group Just completed 12 full months of V2H (started with V2H and TOU tariff mid September 22). First month we had 2…
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Support through Company/charity
Hi , hope this right place am looking to either take part or do what I can via other streams for the planet but wanted this forums knowledge or and advice plus below I thinking joining woodland trust via pay monthly membership- has anyone used and or Are they genuinely supporting wildlife? I don’t see much online or news…
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How much does DNO approval cost / is it worth it for my system
Been quoted 8.5k for 6.4kW of panels over a couple of roof elevations solaredge 3.68kW inverter solar immersion heater thingy bird barrier Now I know that the panels are overspecced but believe this is due to two things, they are on different facing roofs and will degrade over time . But I was wondering if its worth…
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Battery maximum output
My battery, which has a 6.5 kWh capacity (LG RESU6.5), seems to have a maximum output of about 2.67 kW. I'm not sure if this limit is set by the battery or by the inverter but it's a bit irritating because it means even if the battery is fully charged I cannot boil a 3 kW kettle without importing some electricity. I don't…
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Octopus opens up SEG tariffs to non-MCS installations!
Octopus have removed the need for a Solar PV installation to be carried out by an MCS-certified installer. It now reads as below. So anyone out there who’s been adrift of a decent rate then now’s the time to switch! https://gtec.co.uk/clause-5-8-octopus-opens-up-the-solar-pv-market-with-a-paragraph/ Updated: new T&C’s now…
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geographical information system tool results
I'm looking into solar panels on my roof, I've found a tool online that lets you estimate the yield depending on your location in the world (https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/), but I'm not sure i'm doing it right the results seem a bit similar? the 2 graphs on the left are my two roofs, south east and north west,…
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Intelligent Octopus and Zappi
I got home from work yesterday to be greeted by an email from Octopus which started "We’re super excited to invite you to the early access for Intelligent Octopus Go with myenergi zappi so you can enjoy cheaper, smarter charging!". Now may be this isn't as exciting as I think it is or maybe all you RE experts have already…
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Batteries that support "islanding" during power cuts
Hi, I believe Tesla batteries can provide backup power during a power cut. I'm not sure if that also means it would keep the solar inverter running as well. Do any other battery brands give this backup function? Thanks.
