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Overexposed: a study on forced labour in Solar Panel Manufacturing (by Brand)
Incase anyone wondered about the ethics (or lack thereof) in their Solar Panels, this study by Sheffield Hallam University has proved genuinely eye opening for me. A must read for the Ethically conscious among us.
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Can you run an all electric house for free?
A little over a year ago I was paying £110 / month for electricity, which doesn't sound alot for a 3 bed semi family of 5, but i had already invested in quite a few ways to cut the annual cost. I had a large solar array already installed and a large battery bank taking charge from the solar to reduce annual costs as much…
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Ditching gas, going electric immersion only, a wee project
I think this fits within the green and ethical section of MSE. This is an ongoing project to replace my gas combi boiler with water tanks heated by immersion. (Hopefully finished In next couple of weeks) A common question would be why not use a heat pump, and there are two reasons for this. 1. It would have to run all day,…
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Solar/Battery/ASHP/EV - what should I get?
Hi, I want to save money on my energy consumption. I could virtue signal about carbon footprint and, whilst that may be an additional benefit, it’s all about the £££. My ideal scenario is that someone else pays, eg the government but, as that looks unlikely, my next best option would be for any monthly repayments for the…
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Neighbours Loft Extension Reducing my PV Output
Title says it all really. Luckily I have individual panel optimisers so it is only hurting some of the panels rather than a whole string but I suspect of order 15% pa output lost so perhaps £100 of FIT plus the value of the output. But my question is, the loft was permitted development so there was no option to object via…
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Solar panel advice
Morning all, I've been thinking about installing solar panels as we need to do some minor roof repairs and will have scaffolding for that (makes sense to do any solar at same time). I'm based on the south coast (hampshire) and we have had the rear extension built now (not showing on Google satellite map yet). The house is…
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Iboost Diversion to Grid
Hi , I want to divert all solar to the grid as it is more profitable using the old meter I have . There is an offset limit of 500w on my iboost+ . Is that the max I can export to the grid.
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Solar install as part of ECO4 grant
Hi all,We are looking at a potential solar install as part of an ECO4 grant (also including ASHP and added insulation). I have a separate thread on the heat pumps forum for that side, but wanted to learn more about the solar side here.We have been quoted (very limited details so far) for 8 x 434W panels and a 3.6kW…
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Solar Panel & Battery Quote Advice
Hi I am looking into having a Solar PV system along with battery installed and looking for some advice on quote comparison. My estimated annual usage for electricity is 8585kWh & we currently own a 4 bedroom detached bungalow with a South West facing roof, 4 occupants in the house. We do not plan to move and see this as…
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Stupidly expensive PV+Battery quotes in Scotland
Like most people on this forum, I've been looking at installing PV + Battery systems. I've called pretty much every MCS certified company within a 100 mile radius. I've got 10 quotations so far, of which only 1 installer that quoted for the inverter + battery system that I'm interested in. The final line (£11.5k) is my sum…
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Solax Cloud WI-Fi APP
For some reason my Solax Wi-Fi APP is acting very strangely, I am unable to access my setting using my iPhone X, plus it keeps occasionally losing my device site, I have deleted and installed the APP, removed it from my hub and reinstalled. The dongle is green and working fine. However I can easily access the site using my…
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How to avoid funding war and exploitation?
I'm finding it increasingly hard to know where to spend my money. Just canceled my spotify account due to their investment practices. Found out this morning about exploitation of women on spanish farms where Lidl sources its produce. There doesn't seem to be one up to date resource which lists the unethical practices of…
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Shade greener not getting free electric
Hi I have doubted for a while now that I am actually getting any free electric with the Shade Greener panels so I decided to take some pictures of my smart meter and as I suspected the total keeps going up during the day 11am to 2 pm. Is this a breach of shade greenery contract!
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Getting an "A" EPC Rating
After what feels like a 2.5 year journey, our London semi-detached was re-rated with an "A" EPC score. Our surveyor stated this was the first one their company had seen in 17 years and was the only retrofit 30+ year old property in Central London to achieve this rating. Incase there is interest in what it took to achieve,…
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Which solar seasonable tariffs best?
I wonder if I could just put some questions out there about tariffs, solar and changing over to Octopus etc as my head hurts from trying to work it all out and knowing there is a lot of experience out there on the forum it seems to makes sense to ask those in the know. We will shortly have 16 x 500 panels and a Tesla PW3…
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Lux ac battery controller
Thought I'd start a new thread for the Lux battery controller as suggested on the battery storage thread. To kick it off, I notice there is an entry on the web portal stats under "history data" for battery temperature (tBat°C) but mine just shows zeros. There's also entries for max and min cell voltage but again, no…
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SEG tarrif Scottish gas not supporting this installation.
Through Scotland home energy I have recently had solar panels and battery fitted to my home along with smart meter. I tried to sign up to the SEG tarrif but a message comes up saying this installation is not supported. Can anyone throw any light on this? If there's an answer out there before trying to contact Scottish Gas…
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Emerald energy caller
Just had a caller come to my house from Emerald Energy saying that i could get a new boiler and some insulation under the ECO4 scheme and that they work with my local council (Lincolnshire south kesteven) He says that i could qualify because i take medication for high blood pressure although when i mentioned my solar…
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Solar energy - Feed-in Tariff payment delays - your experiences?
Most people who've installed solar panels in the last 18 months or so will be claiming Feed-in tariff payments from electricity suppliers. Some suppliers are paying fairly quickly after the claim goes in - but some aren't. E.on, for example, used to pay within a few days but are now delaying payments for up to a month.…
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Gridpay vs. Octopus
I have been selling my surplus solar power to Octopus for several years. I also have a Tesla battery that Octopus drain at peak times and recharge with off-peak electricty. Last week myenergi (makers of Zappi chargers) have invited me to export my power to them via their Gridpay app. I can't find any comparison of Gridpay…
