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Genuine question, how are you using quite so much electricity? Or maybe that's a fairly normal figure but it looks horrific to me!! :) I was also going to comment on what a good rate you have but then noticed it's 2021 :) EDIT As pointed out elsewhere, and hadn't occurred to me, you probably...

I've been away so am late to this but do many people really spend £500+ per month every month on fuel? And in my sums I've always assumed that electricity prices may drop quite considerably at some medium term point, which extends the payback period. I am a fairly prolific home automater with...

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I've looked at batteries, alomst def not going for it now, but I hadn't realised it meant you'd lose your FIT payments - presume the early Government ones? Def not going for it in that case, I get about £2k p.a. tax free!

My modest set of panels did 311kWh in April but none of it went in the car. I can't generate enough at any one time to satisfy the car's demand so I just do that using the cheap overnight rate - which isn't free but compared to dino fuel it's very cheap!! All my spare free electricity goes into...

Pretty sure my Octopus-installed SMETS1 are Secure Liberty 100s, which they upgraded OTA. My gas today is 3.58p (Octopus tracker tariff), which isn't so far off 2021 rates. My "problem" is I'm not using any (solar diverter to immersion and no heating). If they ever decouple electricity tariffs...

£540 a month seems a helluva lot unless you are using it for heating. My most expensive month was December at £138, which cost me an average of 18.45p a unit on Octopus Go. Of course the maths do look very good now but, as I mentioned somewhere else yesterday, if electricity rates fall...

Actually that is a very good point and one I'd not really factored in. I've had panels since 2011 so that has worked well. On and off I look at batteries and re-do the sums but I'm 68 later this year so in terms of profit it's never going to be that great. You might have inadvertently saved me...

Ahhh there's the anomaly. We usually end up with the one she finds most aesthetically pleasing. Not cost, efficiency or functionality. Prettiness is all that counts!! :-) But I absolutely see where you are coming from! (And it isn't dissimilar to the discussions on methods to eke out every...

Some don't like panels on roofs. some don't mind them. I'm fine with them. I wouldn't be inclined to believe (and therefore trust) an estate agent trying to down-value due to panels. Being a suspicious kind, I'd be thinking that they were trying to keep the price low so they got the sale. My...

I remember reading ages ago that it wasn't expected to be an issue, so long as it was carried out gracefully rather than just pulling the plug, but that was from a (knowledgeable) bloke on a (technical) forum rather than an completely dependable source.

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Sounds good but you must be talking about £10k or so of investment to achieve that, it's s shame on many levels that isn't within everyones reach. Have you looked at signing up for exporting any excess solar? Octopus have good rates on some tariffs.