-
Solar battery - are they worth it now?
Just have a quote £4k for 3.2kw battery. 10 year warranty with ese group. have 12 panels 3.9kw system with solar edge. annual consumption 7,300 units 5 bed house with hot tub I don’t think we can tell how much of the solar we’re using. I appreciate it’s impossible to be exact but anyone got a rough guide as to whether this…
-
Forever Green Energy Quotation
I have had a number of quotes for solar panels. I am leaning towards the one from Forever Green Energy in Cheltenham basically because they were very thorough, informative, detailed and efficient with their quotation. Other firms promised to send me quotes and didn't bother or just gave me a verbal quote. They were a…
-
Solar panel quote check + advice
Hi all Like many I'm considering solar panels and I was hoping some of the experts around here could help me move forwards with a reasonable course of action. I've been quoted £12.8k for the following: 1) 10 505w Trina black panels, six on S-facing roof, 4 on flat roof angled in solar bins 2) K2 solar mounting system + 4x…
-
Advice needed for solar panel certification.
We have recently had a 7kw inverter installed (10.4kw on the roof) and 10kw of batteries.The installer stated that this would include : "Includes all material, labour, commissioning and certification" which I stupidly took to mean MCS and G99. The actual install took 6 months to complete but is at least working.. and now 6…
-
Switching from deemed tariff to export tariff, and Octopus Flux with no battery?
Confused solar panel newbie here needing a bit of help, many many thanks in advance! We bought a house that already had solar panels installed, and moved in end of December last year. As much as I tried to do some research and reading, I still haven't fully understood some of the intricacies of FIT tariffs, export tariffs,…
-
Does Solax inverters have a timed forced discharge?
I have a Solax inverter and battery, which I have set up to charge during a off-peak rate. I can see in the Work Mode list, you can choose "Manual" and then "Forced Discharge". In the settings menu that needs the PIN to access, there is a "Chrg&Dischrg Period", which i have used to set the time to Force charge the battery,…
-
It's only a little niggle
Wouldn't it be nice if the Octopus app showed export as something other than 'used'? I'm sure the exported energy is used by my neighbours... :smiley:
-
Luxpower monitoring why is this happening
I have just been looking at what my solar is up to on the luxpower monitor, and I see this. Why am I exporting at this point. Surely the battery should be providing any extra power required and that is all. Why am I exporting to the grid. Any ideas
-
EV charging apps
I have genie point, pod point apps for EV charging and zapmap to help find chargers.Up until now we've had a PHEV so charged sometimes but if we've turned up and we don't have a particular app just decided to not charge. Picking up EV on Friday so will have no choice. gridserve? instavolt?
-
Fit payments uniform everywhere...?
I've had solar panels for about 12 years and always been with Eon and everything has always run smoothly During that time we changed our gas/electric supplier several times to avoid being milked as a loyal customer... I had never considered changing FIT provider - is there a need to or do they all simply honour the…
-
Recommended PV installers in London
Is anyone able to recommend solar PV installers who cover South East London (or suggestions of installers to avoid)?
-
Adding extra Solar Panels
March 2022 we installed a 4.4 kWh solar array our system is registered with Western Power G98, our system is south south west, we are considering and additional 3 kWh solar array to our north north west elevation, our roof has a 30 degree slope, we are assuming the north north elevation to be at least 30% less efficient,…
-
Solar Battery output/discharge rate
Can someone who is familiar with Givenergy answer this question please? If I understand correctly Givenergy Giv-Bat 5.2kwh has a discharge rate of 3kWh (51.2v x 60A = 3kWh) If I have 2 Givenergy Giv-Bat 5.2kwh paired, would the output/discharge rate be doubled to 6kWh, or it doesn't work like that? Reading the Givenergy…
-
The investment benefits or not of solar
Interesting take on this on banking and Investment forum https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6441813/solar-panels-and-savings/p1
-
2nd Solaredge battery cost
Does anybody have a rough idea of how much it would cost to have a 2nd Solaredge battery supplied and fitted to an existing Solaredge system? I guess question is to the installers here.
-
Inverter Output Higher than Panels and Inverter Spec
Our 3kWp panels were installed in 2011 and we had a 3000W SMA SunnyBoy inverter fitted as part of that. The output regularly reached 3000W over the summer months but never exceeded that. Our inverter failed in March and has now been replaced with a Growatt 3000TL. I've noticed on a number of occasions the output showing on…
-
EV + solar panels
We currently have solar panels and are on an octopus outgoing tariff. We pick up our EV this week. We will in the main be doing shorter journeys with the odd long one. I looked at EV tariffs but you can't have with outgoing. for those with both which do you find most beneficial.
-
FIT increase 2023
When do we find out the inflation figures needed for the 2023 FIT increase? what is it likely to be, will we get 10% ?
-
Zero VAT on energy saving 'ancillary' works
Various energy saving things (solar panels, insulation...) currently attract zero VAT. This extends to ancillary things, such as batteries if installed at the same time as solar PV. Does anyone know, if I was to get integrated solar panels rather than on-roof panels, does the replacement of roof battens/membrane, which are…
-
Pensions
I have 2-3 different pensions and my FA is telling me to transfer them all with Fundment so, I can draw on them when i need some money, I realise that this fund could go down as well as up but can anyone tell me if an annual charge of 1.5% is the norm.