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

keith_r59

Thank you everyone. A very informative discussion about the pros and cons of Solar PV again today. I must admit I never get bored....

Anyway, a week of very sunny weather is on it's way for us Solar PV users. Kerching! :j

John_Pierpoint

grahamc2003 wrote: »

New evidence from Cern (which is about the best science you'll get) is adding further question marks over man's effect on the climate.

Can we have a link please?

John_Pierpoint

.......and the elephant in the room is:
http://www.breathingearth.net/

Never mind a bit more quantitative easing will put everything right.

BornAtTheRightTime

digitaltoast wrote: »

I'm guessing you've got at least a little bit of garden too. So, unless you're a bit bonkers, you wouldn't be tumble-drying your stuff if you could hang it outside. Which you would do only if it was sunny.

Perhaps you'll think me bonkers, but I prefer to tumble dry than peg out washing any day of the week - as it cuts down massively on the ironing load... I'm treating any decent generating weather as an excuse to shove the washing in the dryer :rotfl:

furndire

BornAtTheRightTime wrote: »

Perhaps you'll think me bonkers, but I prefer to tumble dry than peg out washing any day of the week - as it cuts down massively on the ironing load... I'm treating any decent generating weather as an excuse to shove the washing in the dryer :rotfl:

Snap, well I was earlier in the year - on holiday in spain now. Using a solar panel on camper to keep the batteries topped up. I can't believe how few houses have panels here.

jackieblack

BornAtTheRightTime wrote: »

Perhaps you'll think me bonkers, but I prefer to tumble dry than peg out washing any day of the week - as it cuts down massively on the ironing load... I'm treating any decent generating weather as an excuse to shove the washing in the dryer :rotfl:

Most washing machines have a 'minimum iron' (or similar) setting.

I haven't ironed anything since about 1995 . (Luckily DH doesn't wear a collar and tie for work)
Give the washing a stiff shake before pegging out...

albyota

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

.......and the elephant in the room is:
http://www.breathingearth.net/

Never mind a bit more quantitative easing will put everything right.

Farrrk!! I only looked at it for a couple of seconds and 434 people died......!!!!, hope they don't think it was me.....:eek:

rogerblack

zeupater wrote: »

The second issue is cost and the current method of encouraging the adoption of the technology ... yes, the cost is high, but fully installed actual system prices have halved in the past two to three years, so allowing for 5% inflation too it's probably more like a 60% reduction in real terms, it'll probably do the same over the next three years too. Solar pv as a form of generation is not inefficient, it's cost inefficient. The FiT scheme should be changed to formalise a link between payments and system prices ... global system prices would make even more sense, so that UK installers have no incentive to maintain artificially high pricing.

The fundamental problem with FIT is that there is that it does not do 'what it says on the tin'.

It's supposed to encourage the use of solar energy in the UK.
But it does this in the most inefficient means possible - putting scaffolding up, and putting a tiny amount of panels on a roof, then going on to the next roof.

This is as the solar panel fitters have lobbied really hard for this to be so.
You get at least twice the solar output per pound by sticking the panels in a field, or on a really big roof.
The FIT should be targeted at these sorts of schemes - with if people want to put it on their roofs, and get the FITs, fine, they can.
But they can also buy shares in mini-solar plants too.

Limiting the residential roof size to 4kW, for example is barking mad.
It should be possible to install more panels at a reduced tariff.

If the commitment is made to use more solar energy, then it should be purchased as cheaply as possible, so not to make the most vulnerable pay any more for their electricity than is absolutely required.
As it is, it's being spent on a small army of people doing the job in almost the most inefficient manner imaginable, and there is little outcry as nobody really realises where all of this 'free' FIT money is coming from.

Freepost

albyota wrote: »

Farrrk!! I only looked at it for a couple of seconds and 434 people died......!!!!, hope they don't think it was me.....:eek:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

F.

energysavingexp

Limiting the residential roof size to 4kW, for example is barking mad.
It should be possible to install more panels at a reduced tariff.



you can if your network is big enough