I know a few her are with Bulb
I am with Bulb, my monthly payments are £275 - electricity only - which is more than I consume.
With the new price rises I expect to use around £250/month with winter approaching. If they want to put my DDs up they can GTF
I’m with Bulb and have had the heating on for the first time in ages today. Smart meter looks like I’m paying for the whole street 
I hope Tesla don’t use the Powerwall algorithm team for their autonomous car programme, or they will make decisions based on what cars were on the road yesterday rather than today.
Yesterday: horrible day and forecast to be so under 3kWh generation and nothing put into the battery overnight.
Today: battery topped up to 75% overnight and then 18kWh generation so chucking to grid.
How hard is it to look at some sort of weather app API?
How hard is it to look at some sort of weather app API?
So long as it’s not the BBC app
Just checked tomorrow’s Agile prices for the West Midlands. Not a lot of agility going on.
“… especially during highly variable weather …”
British weather then. Can you hack the s/ware to inject some sense into it ?
The Wife is REALLY keen to get solar panels as part of our house renovation. Getting quotes, we are looking at a ~5kWp installation with up to 14-panels as per the layout below.
Any tips/advice from people already installed?
The main things I’m struggling with:
- The green part of the roof is our extension, what will be a lovely green standing seam steel clad roof, and then bolting some generic solar panels on top. Seems a waste to me…
- We will have a gas hob but planning on a new boiler installation. Initially, it was just going to be a big gas combi to do the half-under floor heating, with no immersion. Now if we do get SP, then an electric immersion really makes sense.
- It all really needs to be an integrated system, we’ve not started yet, will be Jan/Feb now on the building work so we have some time to make any changes…
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Just stuff as many panels as you can on.
At 5kWp it means your installer will need to do G99 which is a lot more involved and takes a lot longer for the DNO to approve, so be prepared for a wait.
If you are considering a battery, get it at the same time as the panels and you’ll get 5% VAT rather than 20% if you do it at a later date.
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Thanks, we had not looked into a battery, yet. My dad has a Tesla battery with his panels and that works well, but was easier to switch for them as they were not on mains gas, so made sense.
Yeah look up MyEnergi Eddi solar diverters for heating hot water with excess solar.
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We have also got one of these
in the garage waiting to be installed. More efficient than a hot water tank for diversion as I read it and specifically works with an eddi.
Make sure the installer specs something like a SolarEdge inverter for that given the multiple angles to the sun.
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Thanks guys, thats all great stuff. Time to get reading!
It’s also worth thinking hybrid heat pump for heating system especially if underfloor is involved, at least initially
I’d consider an induction hob rather than gas.
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I’m watching this thread with interest. The house we are buying has a 4kwp system which was signed up to FIT when it was fitted 6 years ago. The FIT agteement should be transferred to us when we complete. When we extend we could fit further panels. As we are hopefully going to be receiving the FIT and don’t have an electric car I’m not sure a battery makes sense. The seller reports a 40% saving on electricity bills and £1- 1.2k annual revenue from FIT.
The boiler is oil powered. There is no gas.
If you can still be on 50% deemed export it can make sense.
Interesting community green power initiative in @catcando’s manor showed-up in my news-feed this AM 
I can see this sort-of-a-thing becoming commonplace in the next few years, even in places where main services are readily available.
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