Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)

I just went and checked and seems mine are LFP/LP04 as well so that is nice to know.

(I have 3xPylontech US2000C 2.4kWh 48V Lithium Solar Battery and it seems have a 10 year 6000 cycle warranty not 5 as i stated above)

more on topic

take a look at these prices right now

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at time of posting....

price £0/MWh
emissions 41gCO2 per kwh

generation 5.7% gas, 8.8% solar, 50.5% wind, 1.4% hydro, (then nuclear and biomass after)

no wonder the fossil fuel companies are crapping their pants and desperately trying to feed the FUD!.
 
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My system was even bigger but even more expensive, I oversized it based on future demand from a heat pump. The warranty on my battery is for 12 years and the panels 25.

The initial estimates think they’d fully recoup there cost in 12 years but that followed the standard MCS projections which are a bit basic and have rudimentary assumptions on energy use and costs.

It will be hard to tell how quickly they actually will pay off due to the changes we have made such as moving to a time of use tariff. We are also getting a heat pump so nothing is like for like. I’d need at least a year of data to make a reasonable stab at it.

My man maths suggests a lot faster than 12 years though.
 
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bigmike20vt said:
there are some crops which can do really well on solar fields apparently. (ones which benefit from the protection the panels can give and dont need the huge direct sunlight.

that being said (and i am genuinely asking the question as i dont know).... do we really need solar farms on arable land? do we not have enough brown field sites and tarmac covered / roof lined space to put solar there instead?.

I am no NIMBY and i would not fight against a solar farm outside my town, but at the same time, i would much rather have a couple of turbines instead and put the solar panels on sainsburys/tescos car park.
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you could say the same about housing its mushrooming all over prime agricultural land and rolling hills around here funnily enough no-one objects to that at least not in sufficient numbers and unlike solar farms that can be returned to agricultural land in the future its permanent.

There was a report on the news the other night interviewing an objector, typical nimby bought a home in the country costing a fortune and almost certainly a WFH city worker, don't spoil my views from my expensive windows I want to see rolling green fields and not solar farms.

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**yes i know economy 7 was a thing years ago but intelligent octopus and Agile are far better products. of course then you have the problem with people refusing smart meters.... which is up to them, but then they dont get to moan if their energy cost rockets.
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Assuming you can get rid of it I'm still on a dual tariff and the electricity company simply won't budge on doing anything about it/remove it. And I've been on the smartmeter list for years again no interest from electricity provider however plenty of smartmeter letters addressed to the freehold owners of the building that lie unread in the hallway as they're addressed to the building owners and concern the communal areas and they don't live here nor is there anyone to collect them they only care about screwing as much money out of us in ground rent and service charges as they can while everything else goes to pot
 
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Been on Octopus Tracker for over a year now and easily saved over £200, if not more. Last month was £88 for gas and electric and it was barely over £100 a month in the winter.
 
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Plunge pricing everyday on agile right now nighttime and afternoons. It's very cheap out there and most people are not even aware.
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i admit i am quite sad and follow kates national grid site quite a lot... i even learned to beat solitaire using it. almost -£8 a mwh now... if i was on agile i would definitely be charging the car now whilst i WFH.

It does show the limitations of even the OCtopus smart tariff.. for instance i am still getting paid 15p a kwh for my export off my solar right now even tho we are in a plunge.

i am not complaining but i would rather get some of the plunge pricing love and not take the export rather than getting paid for selling electricity when it is at -ve pricing.
 
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It's certainly harder to use the afternoon plunges without an EV.

They may be paying us 15p but the majority are still paying them 24p. I don't feel too bad for them.

If agile export matched the import rates that would be very interesting though. The peaks are too low right now to make it work I guess.
 
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Firestar_3x said:
Which would be odd given my "smart meter" gives them daily readings, whatever they decide i know my total consumption for the period!
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HungryHippos said:
Could be missing some readings, which they've now got. Not sure, you'd have to ask them, but I doubt they're just refunding you for fun!
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I've not had my bill for March, queried it with them and they said it was missing readings - I pulled my smart meter data from their website and the only 'missing readings' were the day the clock changed so only 46 instead of 48 readings that day - every other day in the billing period had the required 48 readings. Bizarre but I am sure they will fix it as they said they have re polled for the missing data.
 
Just out of interest, what are people paying? We have a three bed semi, gas c/h and pay £360/month electricity and £88 /month gas. We can't go on smart meters because they may interfere with the medical equipment my wife uses. (Yes wifi is not available in the same room or near it.)
 
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Just out of interest, what are people paying? We have a three bed semi, gas c/h and pay £360/month electricity and £88 /month gas. We can't go on smart meters because they may interfere with the medical equipment my wife uses. (Yes wifi is not available in the same room or near it.)
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3 bed detached, 2 adults, 5 cats, £150/month on average combining leccy and gas.
 
mejinks said:
Just out of interest, what are people paying? We have a three bed semi, gas c/h and pay £360/month electricity and £88 /month gas. We can't go on smart meters because they may interfere with the medical equipment my wife uses. (Yes wifi is not available in the same room or near it.)
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2 bed semi, 1 adult, 1 cat, £45/month on average elec and gas (octopus tracker)
 
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Just out of interest, what are people paying? We have a three bed semi, gas c/h and pay £360/month electricity and £88 /month gas. We can't go on smart meters because they may interfere with the medical equipment my wife uses. (Yes wifi is not available in the same room or near it.)
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Comparing monthly cost is reasonably useless because you don't know what unit cost people are paying, what deals they're on, if they've got batteries etc. Posting actual consumption figures give a better comparison of energy usage.
 
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Just out of interest, what are people paying? We have a three bed semi, gas c/h and pay £360/month electricity and £88 /month gas. We can't go on smart meters because they may interfere with the medical equipment my wife uses. (Yes wifi is not available in the same room or near it.)
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3 bed semi detached 2 adults 5 children £150 a month on electric and 25 a month on gas on octopus tracker
 
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