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Solar Panel & Battery System Quote (check!)
Hi all, bit of a lurker but I figured I'd sign up to use your expertise to help with a solar decision! I have been in a new build home for 2 months and I'm considering solar. The house is a 4 bed detached, with only me and the partner for now. I only have 1 month's bill which was about £70 for electric through Octopus…
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Quote check: 8.1 kWp Trina + 10 kWh Fox battery for £11.5 k – 20 p SEG… sound about right?
Considering solar with battery. I've approached OVO as I like their overnight EV charging and 20 p SEG if I order the panels and battery through them. Can I get your thoughts on this please? Quick background * Location: Gloucestershire (two-storey house). * Roof: Main south-facing pitch ≈ 27 °, 9 ° E of due S; clay tiles,…
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Derril Water Solar Park
As many of you may know Ripple Energy has folded in recent months leaving ongoing projects in limbo. However Derril Water, the solar farm (coop3 to its members) is on the verge of going live and starting to generate benefits. The board have set up a new website here: https://derrilwater.com/ We really need members to…
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Exported electricity before signing up for Standard Export Guarantee
Our solar panels were installed in May. We are currently with Bulb and they installed a new smart meter after a few weeks. On 16th June we applied for the Octopus Smart Export Guarantee. At this point we had exported 86kWh. Octopus eventually signed us up on 18th August when the export reading was 894kWh so that's what…
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Solar panel assessment scam?
I've just been trying to cancel a "free" (I know, I know, but I was distracted) solar panel assessment appointment tomorrow but can't find any trace of the company and the phone number they gave me doesn't work. Has anyone heard of Pei/Pay/Pey? Solar? I've got this as a phone number (0333201885866), but realise now it has…
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Solar: Export Octopus 15p Rest 1p /kwhr ? Does the grid want this energy ?
Hello Like to go solar : seems most energy suppliers just offering minimum 1p /Kwhr to export. Looks like grid doesnt want it by day ? Is it now just a case of use it or lose it ? Octopus seems to be alone in offering 15p/ kwhr So guess I should switch to them How does octopus finance work on this if no others ? Does…
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Leased solar panels - maximising benefit
My daughter
purchased a house with leased solar panels in 2022. The original company had gone bust in 2014, but the leases were sold on to an investment company, and appear on the
title register. The
investment company were unresponsive during the purchase (either to us or the
vendors). Nevertheless, I understand she is…
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Solar panels headache - please help!
Good morning. We are thinking of having some solar panels installed, partly to become greener and partly to save some money in the foreseeable future. We are in a 4-bedroom semi-detached townhouse (so three storeys), we use gas for central heating, we do not want heat pumps and are unlikely to own an EV. We are going to…
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SolarEdge reliability?
Hi all, just pulling the trigger on a 10000kw system with Eurener panels, SE8000 inverter and SE optimisers across east, south and west facing roofs. However I’ve just come across a few articles questioning SE optimiser and inverter reliability and performance in some configurations. Paying extra for performance and…
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Growatt Battery Setting Help
Hi all. Now that the days are starting to get longer, although not long enough yet, I'm looking for some advice in regards to the battery settings on a Growatt. Since the Solar and battery has been installed, I've been charging the battery using a cheap overnight tarrif (Intelligent Octopus) and then discharging the…
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Solar panel quote comparison
Good morning, first post as we are thinking of having solar panels installed. We are in a 4 bedroom bungalow with oil fired boiler for hot water and radiators, no gas in our village, we do not want heat pumps or an EV. We have sourced 3 quotes via a solar comparison site. I would grateful if possible to get some opinion on…
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Grant available, Dimplex Quantums, or Air Source, (both with solar)? ...which would you go for??
Hi, as per the title, we may be eligible for a grant to improve our heating. We are all electric and have storage heaters, some of which are quite old. It looks like we may be offered the option of all either all new Quantums, or possibly Air source heat pump. Both options will include solar panels.At some point in the…
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Solar Panel Testing for Guarantee purposes.
Hi, I had a Solax system (5 panels) installed at my property nearly 3 yrs ago. I dont currently live at this address but had it installed under an offer available at the time but for the past 6 mths there has been no display in the Solax inverter and the red light is on. The
installer only gives 2 yr warranty so I was…
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Solar Farm key facts check
As title really A solar farm has been proposed near me & some noisy locals have launched a protest group,to this end a leaflet has been delivered to all the residents locally, on this are some facts, that may not be true & would like your help in checking them.(The leaflet has some spelling mistakes,including the…
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To battery, or not too battery
I've not pursued solar due to the long ROI, but have recently had my interest piqued by some possible compelling pricing for solar: 1. 5kW system (12 x 430 Peimar bifacial panels & Solis inverter) - £4k installed 2. 5 kW system with battery (12 x 430 Jinko panels, Solis inverter and Polar battery) - £5.8k installed We use…
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Solis inverter and new broadband supplier
We've changed broadband supplier, currently still got both up and running, but will need to swap them over shortly. We've had a video and some instructions from our installer to advise how to change the setup, has anybody else done this easily and successfully with a Solis inverter? If we can't swap them over, the…
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Who are my solar panels registered with?
I've recently bought a property that has 12 solar panels on the roof. They have been bought and are owned outright, and are included with the property. My current energy supplier (and the existing one also is OVO. They have no knowledge of the solar panels, so have advised me to find out who they are registered with....…
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Should I charge my batteries overnight in Summer?
Hi there, Apologies if this has been covered but I couldn't find anything that sounded exactly like what I'm asking. I have solar panels and batteries. Last winter I started charging the batteries overnight from the grid at the cheaper rate, using the batteries during the day. No brainer I think? In late February/early…
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Will the driving test have to change
As above will the test have to change to for ev vehicles.
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Solar or not
Hi Im considering getting solar but can’t decide if it’s actually worth it, garden is south east facing. Currently on Intelligent Octopus for electric, this is to allow charging of EV at cheaper rate, I wouldn’t want the solar fr the EV as my work pays the charging costs. On average we use 15 - 20kwh per month, it’s a…
