So now I have a solar PV system how do I make the most of it???

tenuissent

"However, all of the listed buildings are within a working agricultural environment and this was taken into consideration by the planning process."

Just to be super clear, we live on a village High Street and are not agricultural; yet there was no problem.

Interesting to see the picture of a thatched house both visible from a road and completely transformed by its array - no attempt at the camouflage we were encouraged to use.

orrery

Martyn1981 wrote: »

Hiya Eric, I would normally point out the ridiculous nature of such measures, but now into my 9th day of gastroenteritis I might concede the point!

Mart.

Doesn't that make you exactly the right person to regurgitate ....

Sorry! Get well soon!

John_Pierpoint

don0301 wrote: »

which buildings in the curtilage of a listed building don't come under listed building rules?

I know someone with a listed building (Originally sort of Lord of the manor - come posh farmhouse) with about 5 acres of the original estate and some various former agricultural buildings as out buildings. It is not part of a conservation area.

What was probably once part of the stables for the "carriage" and included accommodation for staff, was converted into garages and and independent home, probably in the 1950's.

This independent home is within the curtilage of the listed building BUT is not itself listed - I think this translates into "You can hack it about inside to your heart's content but you have to treat the outside as though it is part of a conservation area".

John_Pierpoint

tenuissent wrote: »

Interesting to see the picture of a thatched house both visible from a road and completely transformed by its array - no attempt at the camouflage we were encouraged to use.

.......but that is not a listed building I would guess.
It is just a rich man's folly.

Me thinks, I would have put the panels, on a rack in the garden, A bit of shading round the swimming pool and the heat pump that heats the pool would be a useful way of mopping up spare generation.

John_Pierpoint

Veryhandyman wrote: »

Have just had 16 Panels fitted a 4K/Watt System that’s 250Watts from each panel, the Company that fitted it were supposed to fit a SMA 4000tl inverter and said they couldn’t get one and that the SMA 3600tl/20 is the same
The 3600 is capped at 3600Watts and they said the 4000 is capped (is this correct) (Could any body out there please advise me?)
They also connected the live wire to the consumer unit to the feed side of the sockets/ring main that meant if I had turned off the sockets to do some work that it would still have been live!
They came back and fitted a separate circuit breaker 16amp How many more have they done like this should I report them.

Record day for me in Essex yesterday 15.77 kWh from a nominally 3.6 kW inverter - but today's total is a miserable 3.7 so far.
Personally I have a 16 amp circuit breaker [They wouldn't want to be using my old fashioned fuse box even if it had a spare fuse position] and rotary switches for both the Direct Current feed and the mains feed on the wall on opposite sides of the inverter. I'm now snowed under in various certificates and inspection reports about the electrics.

If I understand your posting correctly, your roof generation was wired directly into your ring main?

Mind you all inverters track the grid characteristics and if the grid turns off then the inverter turns off too.

zeupater

tenuissent wrote: »

"However, all of the listed buildings are within a working agricultural environment and this was taken into consideration by the planning process."

Just to be super clear, we live on a village High Street and are not agricultural; yet there was no problem.

Interesting to see the picture of a thatched house both visible from a road and completely transformed by its array - no attempt at the camouflage we were encouraged to use.

Hi

Thanks ..... so between us we have described two example situations where listed buildings have definately been granted consent to have panels installed within close proximity which tends to confirm that although not covered by 'permitted development' rights the authorities have allowed the installations as long as they have been sympathetic in their positioning and have not had a major negative visual impact on the listed building or it's immediate surroundings .....

I would say that in both cases the demarcation between where permission was required and not was clear and thefore the changes in planning consent requirements regarding solar pv seems to be working well for at least some requiring pv in a listed building environment.

Thanks
Z

Plot_Vendor

It's on days like this that I wonder if I'd have been better chucking fistfuls of fivers from the window speeding down the M1 :eek: Today, my 3.0 KWp system has produced only 2.501 KWh - I feel like getting up there and ripping the :mad: thing off!

What's staying my hand is the promise of more performance like yesterday's, when it produced 9.975 KWh

I know some of you'll probably say something about swings and roundabouts ... I'd say something about (sorry the forum filters have edited this bit out).

Now, I'm off to chuck some more money at my electricity provider to have a nice hot cuppa to calm me down

zeupater

Plot_Vendor wrote: »

It's on days like this that I wonder if I'd have been better chucking fistfuls of fivers from the window speeding down the M1 :eek: Today, my 3.0 KWp system has produced only 2.501 KWh - I feel like getting up there and ripping the :mad: thing off!

What's staying my hand is the promise of more performance like yesterday's, when it produced 9.975 KWh

I know some of you'll probably say something about swings and roundabouts ... I'd say something about (sorry the forum filters have edited this bit out).

Now, I'm off to chuck some more money at my electricity provider to have a nice hot cuppa to calm me down

Hi

As you mention, it's all down to averages .... 12+kWh over 2 days with a 3kWp system doesn't seem that bad, I've had much worse, much later.

What needs to be remembered is that we're still in the first half of March, so we haven't even reached the middle of the month which should (on average) produce the PVGIS (averaged) target on a daily basis ..... and each day that passes at the moment provides an additional ~4minutes of production, so you should be starting to see better figures over the coming few weeks.

HTH
Z

Plot_Vendor

zeupater wrote: »

Hi

As you mention, it's all down to averages .... 12+kWh over 2 days with a 3kWp system doesn't seem that bad, I've had much worse, much later.

Hi Z, Thanks for the support - my BP thanks you. :beer:

My earlier post was (slightly) tongue-in-cheek: I love my system and would never do anything to harm it - really! - even when it struggles to produce 0.11KW, as it did this afternoon.

In it's defence, it is on a west facing roof and, as you say, it's down to averages. Perhaps I could move it somewhere near teachergirl and jackieblack, who seem to get more sunshine than the sahara desert ...

EricMears

Plot_Vendor wrote: »

Perhaps I could move it somewhere near teachergirl and jackieblack, who seem to get more sunshine than the sahara desert ...

And less sandstorms !