Very high gas usage - help

JGB1955

We have our heating on all day - just turned it down to 19C during the day (from 20C).  £110 per month.

Benny2020

1000 kwh of electricity a year and 9000 kwh on gas, 4 bedroom house, fallen from 3000 and 14000 since my solar panels were installed,
Everybody needs solar panels.

northwalesd

Benny2020 said:

Everybody needs solar panels.

But not everyone can have solar panels.

Benny2020

If everybody did then we would not need new nuclear.
Today was overcast and dull with rain but i still managed 3kwh into my hot water tank and no power taken from the grid.

lisyloo

Benny2020 said:

If everybody did then we would not need new nuclear.
Today was overcast and dull with rain but i still managed 3kwh into my how water tank and no power taken from the grid.

One issue is that not everyone can afford them, but do they even work on north facing roofs? They certainly never used to be financially viable if your roof faced the wrong way, but I haven’t kept up with the latest developments.
obviosuly it’s a moving feast with increases in price.

Mstty

Let's not get into the "every new house should be forced to have solar panels" it's a no brainer and the profits the house builders make they should be made to put them on every house. Imagine a bulk install costs probably only 2.5k per house.

Benny2020

Won't work on North facing roofs, economics have changed with the increased prices of electric and gas.

QrizB

lisyloo said:

... do they even work on north facing roofs?

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Benny2020 said:

Won't work on North facing roofs

The do work on norh-facing roofs, they just generate a lot less electricity (as a very rough guide, half as much).

If you use PVGIS you can try various orientations of solar panel and see what the effect it has.

For example, if I put 1kWp of solar panels near Leicester with optimised slope and azimuth, it says that at 35 degrees slope and zero azimuth (facing south) they will generate around 998kWh per year. Changing the azimuth to 180 degrees (facing north) reduces the generation to 532kWh.

lisyloo

Yes of course I know they would work, but no one sane would spend money on something financially unviable.
sorry if it wasn’t clear.

alicef

Putting aside your gas consumption, the electric is also high.  We also cook on electric (induction range cooker), and we cook all meals from scratch. Our electric consumption is circa 200kWh per month.