Would a fuel boycott work?

Benny2020

I am sure the children mining the Cobalt are pleased for you.

Grumpy_chap

Petriix said:

I've been boycotting fuel for 17 months now and it's definitely reduced my costs. Since switching to an EV it's costing just 1.1p per mile. 

How much of that was your own generation (solar) and how much is the pence per mile of installing the solar?

Petriix

Grumpy_chap said:

Petriix said:

I've been boycotting fuel for 17 months now and it's definitely reduced my costs. Since switching to an EV it's costing just 1.1p per mile. 

How much of that was your own generation (solar) and how much is the pence per mile of installing the solar?

That's a great question, and not entirely trivial to answer. When I calculate the 'savings' for the ROI on the solar panels I count the car charging at 5p per kWh, but that's arguably double counting if I'm also counting it as zero cost milage.

However, while roughly 30% of my charging comes from solar, I anticipate that the solar panels will entirely pay for themselves out of FIT payments over their lifetime. So any self consumption will essentially be free.