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Solar Panels with Battery - Advise on options and questions please
I have been thinking and finally decided to get the solar with battery following yet another increase in prices. It will only get expensive! If not cost I know why not many having this and it's because everything is so confusing. So I very much would appreciate if you can help please? The house is a semi detached property…
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PicoStream: Micro scale (2kWp) Hydro power generation for the UK!
Great to finally see an inexpensive, simple to install and commission hydroelectric power solution that will work well for UK properties with streams flowing through them! Looks like the cost is < £10K but is yet to be confirmed. Install time is 4 hours and DNO approvals take < 2 months. Assuming consistent flow and…
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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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Which storage battery
Hi all, We have recently had a 12kW ashp installed in our 4 bed house (4 of us); prior to this we were reasonably heavy users anyway using anywhere between 5-15kW. Currently we’re between 15 and 25kW and this will obviously increase in winter. I have just started to get quotes for battery storage; we also have solar panels…
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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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A Shade Greener ongoing issue
My late mother’s property was put into trust after her passing and my son lives there as per her wishes. He has tried for years to get access to the account on a shade greener but they have never given him access. So we have never been able to monitor the account and electricity generated. He has now switched energy…
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Fogstar Home Batteries (Domestic <30kWh ... etc)
HiTalking to some friends at the weekend & it was mentioned that they had a number of quotes for a home battery system to add to an existing PV setup (~5.5 kW.p) , with the main contender currently being a Fogstar rack mounted ~30kWh unit, which I mentioned was probably far too much storage (probably >double) for their…
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Help with changes to current set up
Hi, We bought a house last year with solar and battery set up and I am keen to get some help to work out some changes please. Existing system:4.86kw Solar PV comprising of 12x Black JA Solar 405w panelsGrowatt 3600TL Inverter (in attic)MyEnergi Eddi hot water diverterFox ESS 3.7kw (non-hybrid) AC coupled battery charger…
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feed in tarrif being reduced
In case it's not been seen www.gov.uk/government/consultations/feed-in-tariffs-fit-scheme-indexation-changes Sorry forum not allowed to post link Government seem to want to change the contract we made with them re Feed In Tariff Can it be legal for one side of a contract to change it ? The "survey" is extremely biased to…
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Eon Next demanding more proof of solar ownership
We moved house 18 months ago and successfully transfered the feed in tariffs to us. E-on Next have been paying us the rather small amounts due but today I have received an e-mail saying that want a second document proving we own them or they won’t pay us anymore. The options they give is a letter from the previous owner…
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Best energy tariff for solar panels and storage battery
I am with Octopus and have solar panels and battery storage ......we are on the variable tariff at the moment but want to be able in the Winter to fill our battery with off peak electricity. Looking at their tariffs and cannot make any sense out of them its overly complicated. We are retired and in most of the day. Can…
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Please help us choose which solar & battery set up to go with
We've had four solar installers come and quote for us over the past two weeks and we'd love to get your help in choosing which to go with as they all have their merits. All installers come with at least three recommendations each from local people who have had solar installed in the past 5 years and who rated them as…
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Solar panel quote review please
We've recently started looking in to solar panel systems & getting quotes. The more we've looked in to it the more confused we feel. Can anyone offer any advice or a service / person we can speak with for some impartial advice. Our aims were - to offset our energy bills so they are reduced as much as possible (& the money…
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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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Electricity Tariffs for Battery owners
Hi everyone, forgive me if this has been asked before but I haven't been able to find a relevant response. Do any of the suppliers offer a suitable tariff for Solar and battery users. I used to be on EonDrive as they accepted Solar users with battery storage, but now they only accept EV owners. I can see some off peak…
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Difference in Solar PV and Battery quotes
I am looking to get solar pv and battery and so far have had 2 quotes, not much in the prices, but different recommendations by them. I have a 3rd quote in the pipeline, but only requested that today.I live in a semi detatched SE facing with a slate roof in Manchester. I do not have an electric car and no plans to get one,…
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Domestic Energy Consultants?
We moved to Gloucestershire in January 2025. The property is almost 250 years old and is a solid, stone walled cottage in need of extensive modernisation of the basic systems - wiring, plumbing, and wherever the two technologies cross over.Are there any independent domestic energy consultants that won't charge us an arm…
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An objective assessment of SigEnergy Sigenstore
Refreshing to see pros and cons laid out in an objective manner here.
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Finally my Sunny Boy inverter has died
Hi All, After nearly 14 years ( November 2011 install ) this morning our inverter has died, or so it seems. I noticed that the light that normally flashes to show that our Immersun is diverting excess generation to heat our hot water wasn’t flashing even though we had full sun on our panels. A quick check of the Sunny Beam…
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Solar & Battery System Requires Internet Access: Set it on a Guest Network?
I'm about to get a solar and battery installation, and having read about the software, it needs to run on my WiFi. Not a problem, but then, I understand that others (such as the installer) may be able to access the system to assist with setup and running.That being the case, i'm inclined to put the software on a Guest WiFi…
