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We aint producing anything here today……just dark, wet and cold.
0.100kwh so far
0.100kwh so far
Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?
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I know. On balance over a year it’s probably saved me money, but I’d love an option that enables 100% charge to be manually enabled.
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It is days like this when I 100% think I should have a wind turbine, would have generated enough energy to charge the car to full by now.
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Yup same, basically generated nothing today, next fews days at least does not look promising for solar.
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0.3kw today. Terrible
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0.1 kwh today, just miserable and clearly even less sun than the other miserable days we've had. That's my new lowest so far, I think 0.3 kwh was the previous best 
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0.59kwh today
peaked at a massive 300w or so around lunchtime
peaked at a massive 300w or so around lunchtime
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Anyone seen/heard from Katie?
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The forum says Last seen Today at 19:24
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A big fat zero of generation here and pulling from the grid since early afternoon. A grim day.
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only 3 more days
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Weather looks very poor for me for a week practically so the start of the boom season will be low I suspect
At least with the warm my batteries have started playing properly again
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Hello darkness my old friend music....
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yeh its not looking good here for the week either......we may get a day of sun tmrw
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My december production, savings and efficiency averages
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Is anyone just running a battery setup without panels? Not sure if I'm missing something simple but it seems, for our usage, the best way to save a big chunk of money all year round with a ROI of 5 years.
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@tsinc80697 It's a good idea, but is totally reliant on cheaper off peak tariffs staying around, although hopefully they're not going anywhere.
Could this be my worst December yet, so far55.7kWh for the month, and the weather's not looking good. Last December was 79kWh
Could this be my worst December yet, so far55.7kWh for the month, and the weather's not looking good. Last December was 79kWh
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As Ronski says the issue is its a massive risk since its 100% dependent on being able to secure a cheap off peak tariff
Could you do solar? If you could then it somewhat reduces the risk since if the cheap off peak deals disappear then you could go solar to work alongside the batteries
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Yeah it would be completely dependant on the cheaper rates staying. They have been around for years though haven't they? (Economy 7 etc)
Our roof is quite big but the shape and direction isn't the best for fitting panels.
(We already have solar hot water panels which were fitted prior to us buying the house a few years ago)
We're on Intelligent Octopus at the moment so it's 7.5p/kWh for 6 hours a day so if we were able to use all of our energy from the batteries every day it would save about £2600/year.
It just looked pointless to add in solar panels when the cost of electric from the grid is 7.5p/kWh…but at 39.25p/kWh it's obviously a great saving.
Our roof is quite big but the shape and direction isn't the best for fitting panels.
(We already have solar hot water panels which were fitted prior to us buying the house a few years ago)
We're on Intelligent Octopus at the moment so it's 7.5p/kWh for 6 hours a day so if we were able to use all of our energy from the batteries every day it would save about £2600/year.
It just looked pointless to add in solar panels when the cost of electric from the grid is 7.5p/kWh…but at 39.25p/kWh it's obviously a great saving.
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