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Solar Panel installation - Offered worse deal than promised
Hi there, I paid a deposit on my credit card solar panels in Apr 2022, the day after Rishi Sunak removed VAT from them. It got the batteries and panels down to around £12,500 (12 Sunpower Maxeon 5 panels and a 9.2 battery). The company then went silent but then said the manufacturers had stopped making the Maxeon 5 so all…
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Yet another Solar installation quote post!
Sorry, there seems to be a lot of these, and I have read through a bunch of them to get a consensus of every quote is unique! So far I have two quotes for a PV installation, where I am looking at panels + battery. My daily usage is around 10-12kWh, and I home work so can use the energy at the point of generation for the…
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Iboost
Hi, I have just had my solar panel and battery installed along with a iboost on a east and west roof installation and producing 20kw of electricity daily so happy days but I do have a question around the effectiveness of the iboost. The iboost is reporting it's diverting power to the our hot water cylinder but the water…
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Reporting and Monitoring
Can I ask what you use for reporting and monitoring of your systems please? As per my signature, I have a Growatt SPH5000 hybrid inverter coupled with a Growatt 6.5kWh Hybrid battery, there are Tigo optimizers on the panels and I have the Tigo TAP and CCA data logger & cloud. The web based Growatt Dashboard is pretty poor,…
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Octopus App Only Showing Exported KWh in App
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Octopus Go Faster without electric vehicle
Hi all, We have just installed a solar array with battery storage and were intending to sign up for Octopus Go Faster, but Octopus are no longer offering this to customers who don't have an electric vehicle - which is a shame! As I understand it, part of the intent of tariffs such as this is to move load from times of peak…
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Waterbutt - Connect to sprinklers and pressure washer?
I have neither a waterbutt, nor sprinklers or a pressure washer I was wondering if perhaps it'd be possible to use a waterbutt for that, and also if I could basically dump tumble dryer water into there too In addition, I was looking to see if I could perhaps more smartly use the water butt where it gets out through a…
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Efficiency of gas radiators?
So, I know that I won't necessarily get an exact answer here, however is there anyway of measuring efficiency of gas radiators? My boiler is 93% efficient, however I'd hazard a fuss that most radiators are 15 years old at the the very least, with ones in the attic being at least 11 years old The house is very well…
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Inverters
Good morning all. Another question from a trainee pv'er! I'm receiving quotes at the moment and I have a question about inverters. 1. If a quote includes an inverter that is a 5.0 KW (GivEnergy 5.0) does this imply that a G99 will have to be applied for and given? Does the 5k give me a worthwhile amount of power over a…
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Solar Quote - thoughts
Hi - I have had quite a few quotes recently to get solar panels on my roof. Some have bothered have got back to me and some have not. Some have been extortionate as well taking advantage of current demand I guess. Anyway I have sort of boiled it down to potentially this system - price is just under £13k. What are people's…
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Looking to get solar again
Hi In 2005 I purchased a 4kwh solar system with no batteries. It cost £4.9k and when I moved out 2021 I had probably made around 3.5k meaning a payback period of around 8 years. The majority of benefit was fit payments. I have been quoted 11k for a 4kwh system with 5.6kwh battery2×2.8kwh, another is similar price Annual…
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Distances questions .....
Good afternoon, I am going to have the inverter and batteries in my garage. It currently looks like an AJ array of panels, a Solis inverter and some Pylontech either US300 or US500 batteries. The issue is that I have my consumer unit in one half of my double garage and I would prefer to have the batteries some 25 feet away…
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Lead times on solar and battery as well as price increases
Back in March 2022, I paid the a 10% deposit for a 5 panel solar 2kWp and 15kWh home storage battery system install by a solar MCS installer . At the time I was told the lead time was 8 to 12 weeks. However, due to supply shortages I've been continuously been informed of delayed delivery of parts because the suppliers have…
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Electricity costs going up but why is SEG staying so low?
Perhaps the simple answer to this question is 'greed' on behalf of the energy companies but given the massive growth in electricity prices driven by underlying gas costs, why isn't the SEG rate for domestic production going up? Surely buying at a (maximum) of 5p/kWh and being able to 'sell' on at the wholesale price is…
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Air source, solar and battery quote
Opinions on prices, what's being supplied/fitted and the spec, Central Scotland. Any recommended upgrades? 11 x Trina Full Black 385w Perc Mono Solar Module 4.235kW PV Array, £6300 Zyphen Cube 4.9kW Battery, £5,900.00 Warmflow 11kW Zeno AS02, 200 litre HW tank with 50 litre buffer, Hive and renew all radiators and…
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Solar quote
Hi, I have received a quote for solar install and I wanted to sound out the price with you knowledable lot and maybe any opinions on the quality of the brands being offered. I have tried to gather a number of quotes but so far have only had a response from one company which makes it really hard to know if this would be…
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Ecoegg laundry products
Bagged at local car boot sale last weekend - two Ecoegg products all boxed and complete. These were on two totally different stalls and were bought out of curiosity really. At home they turned out to be for 864 and 720 washes respectively at a cost of £2 and 50p. Based on the 3 washes I do a week that is 10 years of…
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WHICH LTD - Wondering whether it's worth forking out for solar panels? We've crunched all the num -
Seen something like this recommended to you on your feed recently? You're not the first. Please don't trust anything these charlatans have to say. "The vast majority of the association's income comes from the profit it makes on its trading businesses" - that means fooling you. If you want to learn about solar panels then…
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DNO request
My solar panels have been fitted and already generating quite a bit. I have my MCS - i have been informed that the email regarding the DNO has been sent. Does anyone know generally how long these are taking to get a response. Obviously i need before I can sort an outgoing tariff.
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PV Quote - So Energy
We recently had a quote from So Energy and would appreciate any feedback on whether it is a reasonable quote and also the battery size. 24 panels (estimated to generate 7,852 kWh per year) for £10,231 (no vat) With 5kWh battery = £14,299 With 10kWh battery = £16,309 The brochure says the panels are Eurener Zebra 375W I'm…
