Soldato
You not got a washing line? That's literally using solar power, no panels or inverter required.
Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?
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You not got a washing line? That's literally using solar power, no panels or inverter required.
You’re old schoolYou not got a washing line? That's literally using solar power, no panels or inverter required.
Soldato
Only getting 3.2kw today, was seeing 4.5 last 2 days.
Reckon it's the heat.
Reckon it's the heat.
I’m getting the same as yesterday, with the exception of a couple of clouds blocking the sun.
Soldato
Had a good wander this morning, and was looking at the number of houses that have added solar this year in my immediate vicinity. Lots of them with dual sided arrays as well.
Made me wonder just how many MW of solar are being added every week to homes alone, not commercial or dedicated solar farms.
Speaking of solar farms, I've heard on the grape vine that one of the local land owners/farmers has put in an application to install at least one field of solar that would equate to about 1.3MW or more. No doubt the NIMBY's will be out in force, the same ones complaining about rising electricity costs and fuel prices, obviously.
Made me wonder just how many MW of solar are being added every week to homes alone, not commercial or dedicated solar farms.
Speaking of solar farms, I've heard on the grape vine that one of the local land owners/farmers has put in an application to install at least one field of solar that would equate to about 1.3MW or more. No doubt the NIMBY's will be out in force, the same ones complaining about rising electricity costs and fuel prices, obviously.
How can you possibly compare by those figures. I don't have solar and am currently spending less than £100 a month. Yours need actual usage numbers surely.
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Yeah for sure of course but just really intrigued at the post solar costs. Obviously I'm getting a proper supplier in to give a quote for costs and installation but just as a Very high level view if I can get anything comparable it'd be pretty awesome
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That from the company we were chatting about? Think its a fair price nowadays as certain items have increased and probably trying to secure stock is taking more time = more expense
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Looking around at adverts I have seen it looks like prices have gone up at least 20% in the last 10 months.
Soldato
You get close to nothing though.
3/4 pence per khw unless you can get on one of these fancy tariffs.
Maybe 80 pence a day last few days, but don't forget this is prime time solar days, most of the year isn't like this.
Wow, I had no idea it would be that low. Honestly thought it would be better than that. If you get 3/4, what do they then charge a customer for that energy?
Soldato
Agree. The older FIT tariff was nice or something close to what the rip off suppliers are commanding per unit like 20p would go a long way.
Soldato
30 pence on the current cap.
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By October I can see the average unit being just over 40p.
Rip off Britain, jesus!
Soldato
It's not that bad, but in comparison to what we're charged for a unit to what you get paid it is bad. Back before all the crap happened you could get paid 20p a unit apparently, not now though, the norm is 1.5p to about 5p depending on who you sign up with.
SEG tariffs under review: How have they changed in their first two years amidst market turmoil
Following Octopus Energy increasing its SEG rate due to high power prices, Solar Power Portal took a look at the rates on offer from suppliers following the launch of the SEG two years ago.
www.solarpowerportal.co.uk
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If you are using only solar with no battery, or EV (especially this time of year) then the sensible option is to be on Octopus Agile both incoming and outgoing, the incoming is capped at 35ppkWh currently, but there is no cap on outgoing prices, so today the prices in my region are 20-37p during generating hours.
This allows you to offset the differential between the outgoing costs and incoming costs when not generating (when dark in other words), so your cost per unit is much lower, this is made even better if you can consume some of the usage at the cheaper outgoing hours, and you are given those in 30 min segments at least 24 hours in advance. If you are using a decent sized array (6kW) and it is very sunny, you can easily see £8-10 per day back with a cost back to your self of how ever many kWh hours you use at non-generating x35p, but that £8-10 would allow between 22.8 and 28.6kWh of use which is pretty much two full days use for most people, it works even better if you have battery storage!
It's not that bad, but in comparison to what we're charged for a unit to what you get paid it is bad. Back before all the crap happened you could get paid 20p a unit apparently, not now though, the norm is 1.5p to about 5p depending on who you sign up with.
SEG tariffs under review: How have they changed in their first two years amidst market turmoil
Following Octopus Energy increasing its SEG rate due to high power prices, Solar Power Portal took a look at the rates on offer from suppliers following the launch of the SEG two years ago.
At first glance the comparison between what you buy for and what you can sell back for is like dealing with CeX haha