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Direct debits for a home with solar power
Martin has a useful guide supplied by Octopus showing the point at which your combined energy bill returns to credit after the winter (roughly early May) My question is, my solar panels will start to provide significant power from March onwards. Is there a graph for a typical home with solar panels. My thought is point you go from owing money with a direct debit scheme will be at least a month earlier.
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Otis2020 said:Is there a graph for a typical home with solar panels.I don't think there's any such thing as "a typical home with solar panels". Solar PV installations discussed on this forum vary from less than 1kWp to more than 10kWp.How much electricity do you use in a year? How big is your PV system and how much is it forecast to generate in a year? Do you also have a storage battery?
The simplest answer for your first year is to leave your DD alone and claim back some of the time access once you get to October, which usually the end of the PV season.Otis2020 said:My thought is point you go from owing money with a direct debit scheme will be at least a month earlier.
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 34 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.0 -
I was always on variable DD with Octopus. So when the solar went in the balance was zero. Credit started building up over Summer, and clocking down over late Autumn and Winter. Balance at the end of December was just over £200. I don't intend paying anything unless I run out of credit.Otis2020 said:Martin has a useful guide supplied by Octopus showing the point at which your combined energy bill returns to credit after the winter (roughly early May) My question is, my solar panels will start to provide significant power from March onwards. Is there a graph for a typical home with solar panels. My thought is point you go from owing money with a direct debit scheme will be at least a month earlier.0 -
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An idea of gen in NE Essex in kWh on 4.8kWp
4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy0 -
For me with solar PV, a gas boiler and fixed DD it makes sense to request a refund once the central heating has been switched off. That would be around April.0
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