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Whatever happens to bottle deposit return schemes?
I remember it was pretty common in the 1980s and after. Why did it stop? Surely it was of some help to the environment, so I'm surprised we've sort of went the other way since then.
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Solar panels
Evening alll i know the current FIT payments have ended, but are solar panels still a sensible investment? I have 4 bedroom detached 3 of us in house occupied twenty four seven!! We also have a energy sapping hot tub that runs approx 9kwh per day!
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Fault on inverter
I have 13 panels installed in 2016. The company that Fitted them are no longer around. I have a faulty inverter, it’s a enphase system. What are my options on getting it replaced and cost of a new inverter I think they a ME250. But that’s just a guess
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HELMS Green Deal Solar Panels {Merged}
Hello. Hope someone can help. My partner and I purchased our 1st property at the end of 2016. The property already had Solar Panels installed. As 1st time buyers we didnt know anything about buying a property. The panels where bought by the previous owner on the Green deal. After we moved in and looked into having our…
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Views on this solar pV and battery quote
Hi there I have been looking at solar PV and Battery. I know have my first quote it is more than I was hoping for so using giv energy hybrid 5kw inverter giv energy ac 8.2kwh 14 x ja solar mono 410w working on an annual out out of 4695 kwh estimated return of £502.4 of used energy return of initial outlay would take 13…
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Solar pV north east England
Hello any body know of a reputable installer or solar pV in north east ? What are members views on if purchasing solar panels is any longer viable from a cost perspective ?
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Solar PV and Battery ... is it worth it?
Hi, I’m posting to enquire about Solar PV and battery storage
for a new house that I am building for myself to live in. I have Solar PV on my current home, installed Nov 2011 and
it has proved itself to be beneficial in both reducing power consumption from the
grid and also turning a profit on my initial outlay. Whereas, I…
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iBoost+ Problem
Hey All, I was just wondering if anyone has experienced the same problem with their iBoost+ that I've got. The fan on it is fairly noisy and always has been, but that's not the problem. On Monday morning with the sun shining I noticed that I couldn't hear the familiar hum coming from the airing cupboard so had a look at…
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Solar Panel Question
I moved into a new build in 2018 and started an application to British Gas to register my solar panels before the standard changed last year. Due to an issue with the dates on the MCS certificate and the company producing the certificate going bust I am still trying to register them so I'm not getting any money back from…
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Gas Combi boiler needs replacement.I have PV what options are there?
Hello I wonder if you could help? I have a 6.72 electricity producing PV on my roof purchased nearly 4 yrs ago based on advice from this forum and I wonder if you could help me again? My gas COMBI boiler which heats water for taps/radiators and showers needs to be replaced and I am quite keen to see if there is an option…
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Simple Solar Panel Help Please
Hello everyone, i hope everyone is safe and well in this bad time we have at the moment Hello i need some help on this project i was hoping to do, been after doing this for sometime now 2 years + What my goal is to run a solar system, just to power my home lighting, but unsure on what i really need to buy or do ? I would…
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Solar Panel Help {Merged}
Hi, I recently moved into a property that already has a solar panel system installed. I have had no experience or instructions of the system. We have a Elster A100C meter/inverter installed. Am I right in saying that if the light is continually on we are using electricity from the ‘grid’ and if it flashes with a large gap…
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Project Solar / Duracell/Solar Panels
Hi All, I am looking to get Solar and Battery and had a quote from Project Solar at the weekend. I have seen that they dont have the best reviews on here, but wanted to share what they have offered and see if I should run or go for it. 4KW system fully fitted with the Boiler Dr (stupid name!!) and new Duracell Battery.…
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SENDING FIT READINGS TO SCOTTISH POWER ??
Does anyone have the same problem? Seems it is not possible to enter a FIT reading to them at the moment, there is a message stating that you cannot enter a reading until 21 april, and a link to send it via email, but that link does not work !!
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Dual Fuel Boilers (Electric + NG) to solve heating and curtailment
With the UK grid more or less solved with what has been built, what is under construction and what is committed to. We must move onto heating. There are lots of wild ideas about heating and how to use excess wind/pv rather than curtail it The solution is actually quite easy. Government just regulates so all boilers are…
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Solar PV shading issue opinions please
I know shading is an issue bringing the complete string down unless using something like solar edge. This is a photo taken when the panels were delivering 256W, the previous couple of hours producing over 2kW. Would this shading from the soil stack be enough to bring the whole array down? This NOT my system as described in…
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Enphase Enlighten
My Envoy does not seem to be reporting. Does anyone else here have missing data for the past couple of days? I wonder whether the problem is at the Enphase end.
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'Green' pension providers
I have two 'dormant' pension pots from long-ago previous jobs - roughly £30K with Scottish Widows and £7K with Standard Life. I'd like to combine these into one pot and transfer it to something 'green' (for me, that means not supporting fossil fuels). I don't want to manage the portfolio myself or anything like that, and…
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Swapping FIT/Export from Bulb to Octopus
Hi all We have a 3kW array that was installed a few years ago. Current generation payment is somewhere around 17p per kwh and export payment 5p. We are currently with Bulb for Gas/Electric and FIT/Export. The way we have our account setup means our FIT Generation/Export payments go as credit onto our gas/electric bill…
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Solar panels - are they worth it?
Hi, We are moving to a house where we could have solar panels. Are they worth buying and what about these free deals? I don't really understand how it works. As in can you run the whole house off them and when/why do you sell it back? Any help or pointers to other threads greatly appreciated.
