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I think that's due to some clever stuff in the iPhone night mode. We only had to step into the garden to see this, although I wish we'd gone out to the coast. I really like the 'ghostly green mist' you've caught in your photo. We don't reach solar max until next year so there's plenty of time yet.

It made it all the way down here, picture straight from iPhone

Was Aviva now Allianz part of LV, Esure was cheaper but didn't have legal cover.

Just had my renewal through, £333 last year £515 this year. A bit of searching and Ive settled for £350 with £20 back as a voucher so I am reasonably happy.

I know what you mean, plugged in today while I was out and about, added 13kWh to the car spent a total of 6p according to the smart meter.

You can use a good quality 13amp extension lead there's quite a few posts elsewhere about what to use. I occasionally use one from Screwfix, just do not use a coiled lead, it must be fully extended and rated for continuous 10 amp plus.

Was that downhill? Last year on hols in Yorkshire the trip into Pickering from the cottage registered 7.3, downhill all the way, needless to say the return trip corrected the average.

Here in sunny Norfolk I've added 31 kWh this month (2 charges) at a total estimated grid cost of £1, those sunbeams are doing there job here.

11 months and 7.7k miles into my EV journey I am still unconvinced that I need a a 7kW charger. I decided to try a winter without before committing. I've spent a total of £22 on public charging in the last 6 months where I've wanted and extra top up due to longer trips on consecutive days. I'm...

He's on my blocked list so I don't even see the click bait thumbnail.

I get this occasionally, usually if I attempt to drive before the system has booted correctly. I just ignore it as it normally clears in a couple of minutes.

I don't waste my time with these videos any more, I'll block them from appearing in my recommendations. I don't bother responding to the idiotic comments that appear in EV reviews either after all you can't argue with stupid.

That may be case now, I'm fortunate enough to have bought a property with solar already installed and in the FiT scheme on the middle rate of payment of around 21p kWh. Today, so far we have paid for a total of £2.55 (8kWh), but I've put 8.2 in the car, done 2 loads of washing and drying, cooked...

Looks like the usual Friday maintenance, I've been getting network unavailable since mid afternoon.

My panels have been in for 9 years now so I'm fortunate to be on the FiT scheme. because the panels were there when we moved in I don't have an idea of our actual consumption, only what I have to pay for. When we moved here the FiT payments covered our total electricity bill but the hike in...

I've had a look at our quarterly generation figures for a sample year. Spring 700kWh, Summer 1800, Autumn 1000 and winter 300. So, sadly it is probably the inverse of your consumption.

Here in Norfolk our 16 panel 4kW array (no battery storage) has produced 3700-4200 kWh pa over the last 8 years. As a result we buy around 3000 kWh pa, currently costing around £82 per month. I expect the DD will need to increase a bit as this time last year I was in credit by £100 or so, this...

My IHD shows realtime usage so I guess the information is available in the smart meter.

The Zappi sounds like a flexible device, I did see an installer was having issues with warranty claims with them where they changed installation requirements after the item was installed and refused the claim as it didn't meet their 'current' requirements. I think to receive FiT and export...

I stand corrected regarding the Zappi, although you have confirmed that the Zappi will quit below 1.4 whereas the granny will use grid to bring it up to 2.2, which I am happy to do as its still half price electricity. Re buying at 7.5p and selling at 15p, with FiT I get paid 20+p for producing...