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Can be less than 5p/kWh with BG EV tariff.

Just calculate the payback period, for us solar and batteries, plus the orientation of our rook is a no go. Now if we were 20 years younger it would be very different story. The EV changer alone will take a few years to payback, but we bought it for convenience.

7.5p/kWh, just what it says on the tin !

If you stay with BGas, and have BGas smart meter and, an Hive charger with their EV tariff you could get your kWh rate down to under 5p from mid-night to 5am. and just under 9p to run your white goods. Some will say IO from Octopus is far better, that it maybe, but BGas is working for us.

New larger box needed.

Take a look at running the simulator in the Loop Energy app. you 'may' find solar is not for you, then it maybe.

Good shout John! Been using it for some months now, and the scheme has recently been extended, not only to cover Christmas Day, but to run each Sunday 11-4pm until the end of February. Great for when cooking your Sunday roast is not an option between Mid-night and 5am :)

Leaving British Gas, just when they have fixed their scheduling issues, 🤣,bye ✋. Q John 🤛

Found the solution with great speedy reply from the Loop team. Select Economy 7 and British Gas from there I found the Driver Sept 24 tariff! Please check out the Hive forum for their charger as you may not get what you think, until BG fix their software.

Hi Alchemist, as I’m sure you will have discovered if you head over the the Hive EV forum FreeCharger and SmartCharge are currently NOT working. The only option with Hive chargers is to use off-peak with no schedule set on you car. They don’t seem to have EV tariffs listed, unless I’m looking...

Here my experience : A NOT SO short update on our British Gas Hive EV charger installation. Yes they swopped out our gen 2 Octopus smart meters for their own ( gas and electric), I was told on the phone they had to change the electric smart meter, but the engineer doing the job said it was a...

The difference is in a savings account you still have your capital. At Raisin UK the top savings rate is not 6.01%.

Agree completely Gomer, same with us.

The 5-10 year payback all depends on your consumption, and orientation of your roof. If the cost of electricity goes down, playback goes up. And invest before your 60 😀.

My comment was not aimed at anyone person. Sorry if you feel that.

I do think some are increasing their projected monthly electricity bills to justify the ‘calculated’ payback on their solar/battery systems. But each to their own I guess😀

Fantastic 😀👍

I do see how you feel johnb80, but as an outsider looking in I do think AK OK was just trying to understand the costing makeup and savings as they could be applied to him and others. But with anything it does appear the more you consume the better use case of solar and batteries. But it does...

Ok, sorry for asking, but as you have explained before, could you in a few lines give us the simple sums to show how. I’m not the brightest in the pack. Eg. For me capital outlay could be £6k (guesstimate) with battery double Electricity cost 2021 £622 ( 3333kWh) So payback 10 years

In fact, if you’re over 65 you may never see the payback.