Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)

Has anyone gone off grid for most of their electric with a decent size diesel generator on red diesel? I am going to look into it as a friend reckons he was making substantial savings even before these crazy price increases. Being out in the sticks a "silent running cabinet" generator is something I can probably get away with, and definitely during the daytime. Our nightime energy usage will be minimal in the summer anyway.
 
Chris Wilson said:
Has anyone gone off grid for most of their electric with a decent size diesel generator on red diesel? I am going to look into it as a friend reckons he was making substantial savings even before these crazy price increases. Being out in the sticks a "silent running cabinet" generator is something I can probably get away with, and definitely during the daytime. Our nightime energy usage will be minimal in the summer anyway.
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I thought red diesel was getting culled in some fashion?
 
Delvis said:
Thinking seriously, having solar panels in too of your small two bed roof is going to make your energy bills magically free?
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We have 16 panels. I think it’s a 6kwh system but don’t quote me on that. Yesterday it managed to generate 17kwh due to the clear skies. Back end of October with the sunny spells it was generating 22-24kwh.

I will see how it fairs in summer.
 
Vita said:
We have 16 panels. I think it’s a 6kwh system but don’t quote me on that. Yesterday it managed to generate 17kwh due to the clear skies. Back end of October with the sunny spells it was generating 22-24kwh.

I will see how it fairs in summer.
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And that's done what exactly for you so far?
 
Delvis said:
And that's done what exactly for you so far?
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Well so far it’s saved money off our electricity bill. Anything that we don’t use goes back to the grid and then offsets our gas usage. To me it’s worth having. Bearing in mind I haven’t paid for the installation at all, as it came with our property. So far with the tariff we’re on, and taking into consideration the difference in weather we usually send back to the grid £35 to £50 a electricity a month.
 
The price increases are here to stay and are going to keep on increasing. There is nothing transitory about any of this. With higher energy prices brings higher food prices.
Welcome to the post-Covid world. All going to plan.
 
buying shares in BP/shell/eon is probably a better investment than amortizement on solar panels in the UK - will/did the bp price drop with the roznet exposure.
 
"We can't let you in to read the meter as we're battling COVID-19 and we're all unvaxxed. You can't come in due to grave concerns for your safety. Come back next month."

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"We caught another COVID-19 variant. Come back next month."

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"We are really prone to getting COVID-19 as we have it again. Come back next month."

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#infallibleplan
 
Vita said:
We have 16 panels. I think it’s a 6kwh system but don’t quote me on that. Yesterday it managed to generate 17kwh due to the clear skies. Back end of October with the sunny spells it was generating 22-24kwh.

I will see how it fairs in summer.
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I've got 16 (old) 250w panels into a 3kw inverter. I did 18.3 on Friday and 18.1 yesterday. I have Octopus GO and have hardly ever drawn from the grid during peak hours (over winter). I have a Tesla Powerwall2 and a Nissan Leaf that charges over night.

This year it's looking like my electric consumption will cost less than £700. For that expense i'll drive 15k miles in the car, heat my water and cover all house consumption. I dont have gas and my heating is done from a log burner. I dont pay for logs.

Oh, i've got an historical FIT rate that pays out approx £1200/year so all of the above actually makes me £500 profit.
 
Kenai said:
Wouldn't surprise me if they're expecting this. I had an unscheduled meter reading visit last week, first time in 5 years.
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Octopus came to read my meter last week. The person wouldnt read it as it was in the top of a cupboard so it was unsafe for them to do it. They have booked the job in with the "ladders" team. LOL
 
john_smith said:
I've got 16 (old) 250w panels into a 3kw inverter. I did 18.3 on Friday and 18.1 yesterday. I have Octopus GO and have hardly ever drawn from the grid during peak hours (over winter). I have a Tesla Powerwall2 and a Nissan Leaf that charges over night.

This year it's looking like my electric consumption will cost less than £700. For that expense i'll drive 15k miles in the car, heat my water and cover all house consumption. I dont have gas and my heating is done from a log burner. I dont pay for logs.

Oh, i've got an historical FIT rate that pays out approx £1200/year so all of the above actually makes me £500 profit.
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Panels do seem like a good idea, but you have to have quite a lump of cash for them. Looking at my usage, I'm at about 4mwh per year so generating 11kwh or so would cover my usage, although I'm in Yorkshire and my house faces east so I'd have to have panels on the whole roof which obviously adds cost.
 
Fixed in November to a 2 year plan at an increase of 40% so now paying £80 a month, with the increase in April and the expected 20% increase in October that's a total increase of ~85% this year alone, don't see how families are going to afford it, but this is what happens when you pander to the green ideologues and don't build more nuclear power stations.
 
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