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Nearly caught with a different Solar scam
We had a phone call last Friday from an unknown caller wanting to arrange to read our solar ev energy meter. He wanted to come on Monday but we told him that today was the first available date. I felt somewhat patronised by the tone of the call! He arrived at the arrange time this morning and just had a perfuctory glance…
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New Solar and Battery installation
Hi all, I've been a lurker for a while but signed up to the forum today as we are in final throes of purchasing a new house. As part of choice of house, we wanted to install a solar and battery system on the property. We will also be looking at if it is a suitable property for replacing the gas boiler with an air source…
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Rooftop bifacial panels (with reflective background) vs. Monofacial
Thought I'd share some real world data from my own roof and my immediate neighbour's roofs. These are 4 X LG 400W bifacial panels, originally installed in 2019 and recently repositioned in a row on our ENE aspect. Average generation across the last month was 59KWh. Note how the panel (1.3.8), with one side unrestricted…
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Solar Panel Potential
Hello all, I hope you might be able to help me – I’m looking for advice on a property I don’t yet own to assess its potential for solar panels. The property is in NW England, and although the property is south-facing, the roof is, well, let me show you…. This is the south-facing rear. The estate agent's drone shot. The…
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Sigenergy hybrid inverter configuration
Hi, I'm thinking about a Sigenstor system. 20 panels across 4 roof aspects (N,S,E,W), all with different shade factors. I'm thinking of a 8 kW SP inverter to allow 3 strings of panels. If my DNO is limited to 3.6kW, do I have to have a 3.6kW inverter or can o/p to Grid be throttled to 3.6kW. If o/p throttled to 3.6kW, does…
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Uhome LFP 2400 Voltage Falling Under No Load Conditions
Hi Folks, In June 2022 I’ve had a Lux ACS 3600 and 4 x Uhome LFP 2400
batteries installed at my property (supplied and install by competent person) to
store the surplus solar energy from an already installed roof top solar array.
The system I thought had been working fine and was configured for 90% depth of
discharge (DoD)…
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On-grid domestic battery storage
Hello! Right, as discussed elsewhere, battery storage for self generation (typically PV) is interesting (to some), and gathering momentum in the UK. So here's a thread to discuss it, and watch it develop. I've called it on-grid, as off-grid is so much more specialised. And domestic as commercial scale storage, or grid…
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Ripple Energy wind farm?
Has anyone looked at Ripple Energy? I'm thinking about it, but not too seriously. I don't have a lot of time to investigate it and if anyone else has taken a look I'd appreciate their thoughts before I take a more serious look.
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Octopus announces the "Nook" Plug in Battery
Very interesting development. Two offerings coming next year: 1) Nook - For renters and flats: A compact, shoebox-sized 2kWh battery that you literally just plug straight into a standard wall socket. No drilling, no landlord permission. It stores cheap off-peak energy and can be stacked . "You can stack up to five of them…
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Greener Days EV Charging Octopoints
been charging our EV overnight on 🐙 ‘Greener Days Forecast’ for the last couple of months and today got our email from 🐙 saying we had charged 4 week long streak on greener days so received 80 octopoints - which equate to 10p - obviously aren’t doing it for the money 🤣 but it’s good knowing we are charging when the grid is…
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Victorian Terrace options
hello all I live in a 3 bed Victorian terrace with NE/ SW facing roof. Currently the usual gas/electricity combination for heating and eating. No electric car or drive. Front of house goes straight onto the street. we use 1122 kWh electricity per year and 9192 kWh gas. I would like to “future proof” in terms of doing…
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Location of batteries and inverter for solar installation
I have a consumer unit, the meter and the mains input cable located at one end of a long house and another consumer unit in the garage. Distance between them is 24 metres with a 100amp cable connecting them. Can I place the battery and inverter in the garage. Solar panels could be directly connect to either end of the…
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Octopus Greener Nights ending.
Just had this email I want to let you know that on 31st July, we will be officially retiring Greener Nights. This isn’t really an end, but more of a graduation. If you’re short on time, here is the quick summary of what’s changing and why: Greener Nights ends on 31st July: You have one more month to earn rewards under the…
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Should I go for another quote though I like what I have so far?
Hi guys and thanks @ArtyJ931 for signposting me here. This is being written in a rush as I have to get to work soon, but having decided to go for solar, we arranged two meetings with companies. One of these came recommended through some sort of clearing company, the other seems to have bought our phone number off said…
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Octopus IOF Not charging battery
After Octopus paused my discharge yesterday , to help the grid, today it has not allowed charge by1330 and the battery percentage is 18%. Bearing the mind that if , I get max solar before 1600 I might get up to 80% by then I can't help the grid at 1600-1900 indeed I could eventually end up buying power at peak rates.…
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Octopus Flux is open to new households again
https://octopus.energy/smart/flux/ After 3 months of new/ return sign ups being paused, it is good to see. applications to Flux being processed. Still not as lucrative as Intelligent Flux but I am told it’s “one step at a time towards normalization”
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Octopus Charge Pack - An add on to Intelligent Go/ Go tariffs
https://octopus.energy/help-and-faqs/articles/charge-pack/ I suspect larger batteries may benefit much more than the £12/ month minimum.
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The best Solar export tariff... for small business?
Greetings! I recently helped a Dental Clinic in Maidstone with their PV system. Their reasons for investing in Solar were straightforward: 1) Save on energy costs (they import in excess of 9000 KWh per year) 2) Provide whole Clinic backup with instantaneous switch to battery backup in the event of an outage 18 X 515W…
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Problems with Smart Export Guarantee after Octopus switch
This discussion was created from comments split from: Radio silence from Octopus - SEG/FIT switch setup.
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Cost of adding batteries to existing PV system.
I'd always shrugged off doing this as the return time would be too long. But I've recently seen some near-new battery setups being sold on FbMarketplace for prices that are hard to ignore - sometimes as little as £1.5k for excess of 10kWh. The Q is, what would the additional costs be should I jump? Ie, installation, and…
