New PV solar install arranged, heating upgrade advice please - solar compatible hot water tank

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We are getting solar panels installed in about 12 weeks, a 5.3ish kw system from memory and will also have a givenergy 9.5kw battery. We live in a 1930s semi on the south coast with a south facing aspect.
This is part of a larger renovation, and an extension to the side may require us to move the exisiting gas system boiler. Having moved from a flat this is all pretty new to us and so please forgive the ignorance around this all! We are however learning daily and willing to learn much more...
We have explored a ASHP but it is not for us at this time. It may be in the future but not just yet.
We would like to upgrade our non immersion hot water tank as is currently looking worse for wear and is currently boxed in to a corner in the kitchen meaning part of the kitchen would need to be removed for access should anything go wrong. As we are ripping out the kitchen for a new one we figured this is the best time to replace the tank with something more efficient and which we can hopefully run with solar energy. Any suggestions for this would be most welcome.
We also as part of the renovations may have to relocate the current boiler - a baxi 600 system boiler. This is only 3 years old so we will try to avoid this. But if we do need to does anyone have any suggestions as to whether replacing with an electric boiler would be worthwhile with our solar set up. we plan to switch to octopus once installed.
we explored getting a combi but would mean ripping up all the floors to get new gas pipes, and as we are trying to use less gas seemed to not be suitable for us at this time.
Any advice / experiences would be most welcome.
This is part of a larger renovation, and an extension to the side may require us to move the exisiting gas system boiler. Having moved from a flat this is all pretty new to us and so please forgive the ignorance around this all! We are however learning daily and willing to learn much more...
We have explored a ASHP but it is not for us at this time. It may be in the future but not just yet.
We would like to upgrade our non immersion hot water tank as is currently looking worse for wear and is currently boxed in to a corner in the kitchen meaning part of the kitchen would need to be removed for access should anything go wrong. As we are ripping out the kitchen for a new one we figured this is the best time to replace the tank with something more efficient and which we can hopefully run with solar energy. Any suggestions for this would be most welcome.
We also as part of the renovations may have to relocate the current boiler - a baxi 600 system boiler. This is only 3 years old so we will try to avoid this. But if we do need to does anyone have any suggestions as to whether replacing with an electric boiler would be worthwhile with our solar set up. we plan to switch to octopus once installed.
we explored getting a combi but would mean ripping up all the floors to get new gas pipes, and as we are trying to use less gas seemed to not be suitable for us at this time.
Any advice / experiences would be most welcome.
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