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Good Energy deal?
Sign up to Solar Savings to earn 15p per kWh for the electricity you export. For the average home that exports 50% of the power it generates, that amounts to £213. That's over £100 more than the same home would get on the best-paying FIT export rate*. I am skeptical of any offer that implies a win-win situation. For some…
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Uhome LFP 2400 Battery
Good Morning, I had a Solar system installed this year comprising Luxpower Hybrid Inverter LXP-3.6K, and 2 x Uhome LFP 2400 batteries. All working well. I obtained 2 new Uhome 2400 batteries and with the help of the technical support, and the manual for settings they were installed. Unfortunately the 2 new batteries never…
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Solar plus Battery Quotes
Good Morning All I've recently received quotes from three installers and wondered if you good people could comment as to the costs and equipment quoted for. For context we are a four person household, using 5500kWh per year. Kids are early twenties so we'll have them at home for a few more years. Wife and myself expect to…
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Solar & battery quote
Hi, Looking for some input on cost of our intended PV system... South coast,18 panels on south facing (165dg) roof, no shading. All electric, annual usage 6000kWh (when being very, very tight with electric heating and DHW!), new smart meter, currently Octopus flexible. No EV. We have been looking at various PV systems over…
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Solar Battery Fault, BuyBack ?
Collective folks, I wonder if I can get some advice please .. I have a 4KW Solar solution on our house, and an 6.4Kw/hr LG Battery. The system is 8 years old, so I have 2 years of warranty left on the syste, but in August, the BMS (Battery Management System) Developed a fault. This is where things became complicated, as my…
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Solar: DNO confirmation?
I had my solar panels hurriedly installed in March 2019, just before the end of the FIT scheme. Recently I looked back at the paperwork: MCS certificate, yes, DNO confirmation No. What I do have is a copy of a form G83/2 SSEG INSTALLATION COMMISSIONING CONFIRMATION. This tells the DNO that my installation complies with the…
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Scottish Power SEG
Is anyone here with Scottish Power SEG? I'm currently with Octopus SEG paying 4.1p and that is the best I can get since I am on an EV tariff and not keen on their flux tariff, next best paying SEG is Scottish Power SEG which pays 12p which is 3 times more than Octopus. Only things I don't like about it is they pay once…
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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…
