Grant for personal individual project to help lower energy cost

FreeBear

MultiFuelBurner said:

Trickle or treacle?

Either way, a sticky problem to resolve without any money in the (honey) pot

MeteredOut

FreeBear said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

Trickle or treacle?

Either way, a sticky problem to resolve without any money in the (honey) pot

Oi, get your own puns!

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GingerTim

MeteredOut said:

FreeBear said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

Trickle or treacle?

Either way, a sticky problem to resolve without any money in the (honey) pot

Oi, get your own puns!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80540955/#Comment_80540955

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

dfburger121

Well I've opened up about the equipment and how much I need to get the project started. All I need now is to find honest help. I will now stop responding and hopefully someone can come forward with an offer of a grantto help me. Thanks

MeteredOut

dfburger121 said:

Well I've opened up about the equipment and how much I need to get the project started. All I need now is to find honest help. I will now stop responding and hopefully someone can come forward with an offer of a grantto help me. Thanks

You got honest help here. You won't get a grant, you've decided a loan is not for you, so a gofundme type thing is probably your only other option.

QrizB

dfburger121 said:

Sorry batteries are from a different site cheaper but it's on my pc and I'm on my phone.

Nevertheless, I don't expect you will be able to buy a 12v 200Ah lithium battery for £200. Even the cheapest Chinese sellers on AliExpress (the ones who tell blatant lies) are asking more than that.

The EASUN prices (around £300 per kWh) are far more believable.

dfburger121 said:

The mppt controls the voltage to cope with the 12v/24v/48v so will just treacle energy to the batteries

Those inverters use MPPT for the solar panels. There is no MPPT on the battery side.
The closest match I can find to your inverter on the EASUN website is this one. On the plus side, it's designed for 24v batteries so 2x 12v in series will work.

dfburger121 said:

... the inverter is 3000w so will cope with house appliances as I use them.

The inverter fits between your electricity meter and your fuseboard. Unlike most UK-market hybrid inverters it cannot simply be wired into a spare way in your consumer unit. Unless you have an isolation switch, you will need an electrician with approval to pull the DNO fuse (or with little enough sense of their own mortality to work live on your meter tails).
You will be permanently limited to 3000w of AC power, as all your house demand will be passing through the inverter. For example you won't be able to operate your kettle and your toaster at the same time.

Even if you can live with this, I think it's unlikely your landlord will agree to it. They are responsible for the electrical safety of your installation and those inverters don't come with any UK certification.

dfburger121 said:

At a push can get it lower than £1000

Personally I think you'd be much better off with eg. a bundle like this. Forget about battery storage (the economics still don't add up) and just offset your daytime electricity use. It's also much easier to install, since it connects to a spare way in your consumer unit, and far more likely to be acceptable to your landlord.

QrizB

dfburger121 said:

Well I've opened up about the equipment and how much I need to get the project started. All I need now is to find honest help. I will now stop responding and hopefully someone can come forward with an offer of a grantto help me. Thanks

As mentioned on page 1, there are no grants for amateur householders to fit ad-hoc collections of uncertified components.

The grants that are available to you might include ECO4, where (with your landlord's permission) you can get a package of energy efficiency upgrades worth £10k or more professionally designed and installed. You shold look into that.

rp1974

dfburger121 said:

Well I've opened up about the equipment and how much I need to get the project started. All I need now is to find honest help. I will now stop responding and hopefully someone can come forward with an offer of a grantto help me. Thanks

Best of luck to you,grants,subsidies,etc etc,call it what you will tend to be available only through "official" approved channels,not to random bright spark/heath robinson style individuals.
Essentially much like fetch,it's not going to happen.

That's the risk of asking for advice,you may not like what you hear,hope your project gets underway by some means.

FreeBear

MeteredOut said:

FreeBear said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

Trickle or treacle?

Either way, a sticky problem to resolve without any money in the (honey) pot

Oi, get your own puns!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80540955/#Comment_80540955

Sweet. I missed that first time round.

Spoonie_Turtle

dfburger121 said:

Well I've opened up about the equipment and how much I need to get the project started. All I need now is to find honest help. I will now stop responding and hopefully someone can come forward with an offer of a grantto help me. Thanks

Did you mean this to sound like you were hoping for an individual member to offer you a grant?

The reason you were advised to post on this board is that the knowledgeable members here were more likely to know of any possible grants (because it's energy-related) than the members on the benefits board*, they would be able to advise on the suitability of your idea, and they are able to help suggest any other ways to possibly bring your bills down.

(*I'm a regular reader of both boards, which is why I saw your other post on the benefits board)