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Cardew

cradbent wrote: »

My Homesun SolarShare (the one that costs £500) was installed last week. I can only tell you what I have


Neat install in less than 1 day. I doubt I've exported anything throughout this grey week, but I believe it has made a small difference to my background consumption (time and sunshine, will tell). I will be changing to a more solar lifestyle to reduce my CO2 footprint. Lets see what I can generate over the next year. Hopefully enough to dampen some of this forum's cynicism.:)

How much in savings do you expect over the next year?

and how will you know?

cradbent

I expect to save £250 a year, but I'll try to save more.
And being a bit of an energy anorak, I've got 10 years worth of energy (electricity and oil) consumption data. I'll see how my spreadsheets and graphs pan out over the next year. And I promise to share.

Cardew

cradbent wrote: »

I expect to save £250 a year, but I'll try to save more.
And being a bit of an energy anorak, I've got 10 years worth of energy (electricity and oil) consumption data. I'll see how my spreadsheets and graphs pan out over the next year. And I promise to share.

Can you please explain how you expect to save £250.

Size of system, estimated output and percentage of generated output you will use in house?

Most people will do extremely well if they save £100.

See post below.

Cardew

cradbent wrote: »

I expect to save £250 a year, but I'll try to save more.
And being a bit of an energy anorak, I've got 10 years worth of energy (electricity and oil) consumption data. I'll see how my spreadsheets and graphs pan out over the next year. And I promise to share.

I take it this is your deal?

SolarShare™ gives you all the benefits of solar – but at a fraction of the price. For £500 and £5 per month for SolarCare, we will install one of our guaranteed 2.4kWp or 2.6kWp systems, and fully maintain it for 25 years.

A 2.4kWp or 2.6kWp system - which is fitted because your house is not ideal - will be lucky to get a generated output above 2,000kWh pa.

If you can use 1,000kWh pa in the house(50%) you will have done well. So that is a saving of approx £100 a year.

You pay £60 a year to Homesun plus lost interest of about £15 a year on the £500 you paid them.

So I suspect your savings might be around £25 a year.

zeupater

Cardew wrote: »

So I suspect your savings might be around £25 a year.

Minus the amortisation of the initial £500 over the life of the system ... if that's 35 years (ever the optomist !!) that's around another £15 reduction .... then subtract the standby power consumption for the inverter which could be anything between 50p & £20 a year (depending on make/model) .... so possibly no saving at all .....

It's good to be green .... especially if you're operating a rent-a-roof scheme ....

HTH
Z

Babiesmummy_2

I submitted the "is my roof eligible" form with Homesun over a week ago, how long is it usually before they come back with a response?

BrummyGit

Well I can put one scaremonger to rest - the model of inverter that HomeSun fitted for cradbent is rated at <1w idle consumption.

Electricity would be at the lower rate as it is on top of your normal consumption, and of course you don't consume when you are generating so a budget of 50p per year would be generous.

But then of course we haven't looked at the outrageous costs of running the meter :wall:

HomeSun_company_representative

zeupater wrote: »

Hi Krish

As it's been mentioned ..... can you look into and provide the standby power requirements for the range of inverters you install. It would be useful for potential customers (suppliers ??) to see what they will be paying to power your units whilst it's dark outside, it's probably not a lot, but then again, they don't save a lot on their bills ...

Z

Sure will do....Just waiting for a response back from the Technical "guy" :-)

Krish

HomeSun_company_representative

Babiesmummy wrote: »

I submitted the "is my roof eligible" form with Homesun over a week ago, how long is it usually before they come back with a response?

Hi Babiesmummy,

Please email me your full address to [EMAIL="customerservices&#64;homesun.com"]customerservices@homesun.com[/EMAIL] and I will check your application for you.

Please can you also note your MSE username on the email subject which will help me find your email quicker.

Thanks

Krish

Cardew

HomeSun_company_representative wrote: »

Hi
Thanks

Krish

Krish,

You seem to visit this thread a lot.

Would you care to comment if the level of savings zeupater and myself suggest would be a reasonable in Cradbent's case?

Surely you must have some idea of potential savings, and would challenge us if we were incorrect.

Potential savings on a 'rent a roof' system were discussed with A Shade Greener(ASG) in the thread in the Green forum.

They fit a larger system(3.3kWp) with a minimum generated output of 2,800kWh pa and they do not demur from the suggestion a £100 pa saving is reasonable. They of course do not charge anything for their system where you charge £500 and £5 monthly.

Other neutral publications estimate in the region of £100pa saving if you don't pay for the system or a monthly fee.

IMO it is probable that some people will save absolutely nothing from having your Solarshare system fitted.

Any comment?