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8.5 kW Bifacial PV System: ~7 year ROI: Fact OR fiction?
Updated system size is 8.45kW at a total installed cost of £10.5K. Current ROI is forecast at 6.5 years. Hi there, I've recently been quoted for solar panels from 3 installers referred by Solarguide. My guidance to these companies was maximum solar power yield per panel for their proposals. Quote: The LG panels are dual…
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Should I go off-grid?
I live in quite a modern house down a road with lots of other houses on the outskirts of town. I believe the house has been supplied with electricity and gas ever since it was built. Until about five years ago, I used ebico to supply my energy. It was great because there was no standing charge. By not heating my house and…
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How accurate are your PV generation figures?
I was impressed by some of the generation figures reported on the “talking ‘bout my generation” thread in December. I am curious, however, how accurate some of these figures might be at this time of year. I have noticed this month quite a wide variation between the figures recorded by my inverter app, my generation meter…
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Fuel Cell Boilers - Thoughts?
Does anyone have any experience? Currently the ship seems to have sailed on getting them at an economical price as the FIT was withdrawn and then presumably since Brexit we are no longer eligible for the PACE grants? But if they were included in the green recovery deal I would definitely be interested, not sure what the…
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Smart Export Guarantee:- No Payment During Set Up Time
Hi All, I installed solar at the end of May (using Effective Home.... decent experience btw). I was accepted by British Gas Smart export guarantee scheme in August. In the time between the install and acceptance for SEG I exported nearly 900 kw of electricity to the grid. British Gas say that I will only be paid by them…
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Should I get an EV now I have solar panels?
Hi I had my new solar panels and battery installed at the end of November (with huge thanks to this Forum and Screwdriva for the great advice and installer recommendations). We have a 10kWp array with 8 panels facing east and 12 panels facing west - so our winter generation won't be great (which is so far proving to be…
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Elster A100C failure - Advice & Clarification Please
Hi, My Elster generation meter is currently "frozen" - displaying a reading that is from a few weeks ago. The Inverter is working, and I've tried a full restart of the system (isolate everything, turn it all off, then on and de-isolate) but the meter is still showing the same reading. The red light is flashing periodically…
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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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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)
Hi Talking 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 panels Growatt 3600TL Inverter (in attic) MyEnergi Eddi hot water diverter Fox ESS 3.7kw (non-hybrid) AC coupled battery…
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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…
