It should be fine, they don't ask exactly what the storage is, you'd just need to ask for a bit more to cover the extra cost? I've swapped around my loan a bit, it's slow but no problems.
Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?
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Goddamn Starlings have arrived in hordes, all crapping on the panels in the garden!,,Grrrr
Soldato
Tons of roof top dwelling pigeons around here so I expect to have a similar issue. I hear them landing on the roof above me a fair bit.
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We were all joking about it a while back but I'm glad I had that added to mine when installed, especially knowing I get quite a few pigeons about.
Adding after would be a pain and more scaffold etc.
It's absolutely horrendous. I paid the lot on my CC and it was about 2 days after my statement date which gave me just under 2 months to get the cash. Think it got paid in on the day the CC bill needed to be paid to avoid interest.
It does appear you can get the cash before getting the EPC and paying the invoice but the wording is a bit vague.
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Man of Honour
Yes for £400 or so that it cost us it gives you that peace of mind.
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Fitting has just started here 
(after a couple of months wait)
14x 410w panels on the garage roof with SolarEdge optimisers and SolarEdge 6000 HD Wave inverter and and a AC coupled 12.4kw Solax X-ESS G4 battery (to avoid extra cable runs).
Battery was a last min swap in as they couldn't get the original, but this gives us full emergency power support through the main fusebox.
(after a couple of months wait)14x 410w panels on the garage roof with SolarEdge optimisers and SolarEdge 6000 HD Wave inverter and and a AC coupled 12.4kw Solax X-ESS G4 battery (to avoid extra cable runs).
Battery was a last min swap in as they couldn't get the original, but this gives us full emergency power support through the main fusebox.
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Soldato
Is there a rough rule of thumb on what percentage of your solar capacity actually generates in winter? Like 10% of its installed capacity per hour for example?
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@HungryHippos and I had a split we used as typical UK. I cant remember where we got it from.
I scaled it to 3900kwh hours as thats my expected generation. Monthly split for that 3900 as per below. Should give you an idea.
This is 5.4kwh of panels with 5% allowed for shading.
Jan-23 | 117.5 |
| Feb | 175.7 |
| Mar | 343 |
| Apr | 429.3 |
| May | 467.8 |
| Jun | 526 |
| Jul | 545.7 |
| Aug | 448 |
| Sep | 351.3 |
| Oct | 233.9 |
| Nov | 164.2 |
| Dec | 97.7 |
Soldato
You can use the PVGIS tool and input your data in that (azimuth, slope, max kWp PV) and it will spit out some monthly figures for you in a nice PDF file.
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Soldato
All depends on the weather really, since I've had my 4kw of panels installed in December 2015 my lowest monthly generation was 71kWh last December, December 2019 was 121. December is usually my worst month.
Soldato
Nice to see someone taking on house builders, it is a shame that it has taken this long for anyone to consider these options on a serious commercial level
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@Mercenary Keyboard Warrior think it was a sort of average expected UK figure thing!
^ Octopus really are trail blazing the tariffs.
^ Octopus really are trail blazing the tariffs.
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Ok my solar just got cancelled, supply issues like many others!
I've got a list of options, my likely option is a slightly diff version with more smaller batteries with approx 0.5kwh of extra storage
Its quite a neat system look with batteries and inverter etc all stacked into one https://www.solaxpower.com/x-ess-g4/
As such I also have to choose now between 1) saving £143 or 2) adding £641 for house islanding. Trying to decide if its worth the diff of £784 for the islanding. They knocked £200 of that should have been £984 extra in effect.
I am quite tempted by islanding just not sure its worth that much extra.
Thoughts / votes?
I've got a list of options, my likely option is a slightly diff version with more smaller batteries with approx 0.5kwh of extra storage
Its quite a neat system look with batteries and inverter etc all stacked into one https://www.solaxpower.com/x-ess-g4/
As such I also have to choose now between 1) saving £143 or 2) adding £641 for house islanding. Trying to decide if its worth the diff of £784 for the islanding. They knocked £200 of that should have been £984 extra in effect.
I am quite tempted by islanding just not sure its worth that much extra.
Thoughts / votes?
Man of Honour
Ok my solar just got cancelled, supply issues like many others!
I've got a list of options, my likely option is a slightly diff version with more smaller batteries with approx 0.5kwh of extra storage
Its quite a neat system look with batteries and inverter etc all stacked into one https://www.solaxpower.com/x-ess-g4/
As such I also have to choose now between 1) saving £143 or 2) adding £641 for house islanding. Trying to decide if its worth the diff of £784 for the islanding. They knocked £200 of that should have been £984 extra in effect.
I am quite tempted by islanding just not sure its worth that much extra.
Thoughts / votes?
We've just had exactly the same offer (guess solarX shipped a few containers over) - ended up going all in for £641 more than our original quote, including the Emergency Power Support
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