easily manageable LOL great for you jack
rob - we just have
your supposed 1% of the population that have problems.
Martin Lewis couldn't refrain from saying
we told you so in March during his catastRophising R4today interview just now,
OFGEN director interview too, nothing we can do bro (eg we couldn't have told companies they need to buy energy in advance more cheaply)
I honestly think the whole "Residential Solar feeding the grid" needs to be re-thought. Scrap the whole "Feed in Tarrif" (and whatever else it's called now to replace FIT) It should be done on a floating balance. If you feed in 10kWh in a day, you should be able to draw back 10kWh with no fees attached. It would also prevent so many energy companies ripping off customers by paying them 6p per KW/h and then turning around and charging them 52p per kW/h when they come home in the evening and turn the lights on
as bigmike alluded
fine - you give PVpeople money for injecting electricity to the grid when grid typically doesn't need it - and then PVfolks without batteries present an erratic demand when the sun isn't shining! (eg. I don't need electricity to run a tumble dryer when it is sunny outside , I usually cook principal meal when it is dark)
Both Australia and California are investigating charging solar users more for the unit they do take off the grid, and then penalising if they inject onto the grid at overcapacity times, read-up
A responsible/useful domestic pv generator would be able to give and take energy from the grid WHEN there is need (like the powerstations)