Its telling 67 for december and 77 for january……but will see
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Its telling 67 for december and 77 for january……but will see
You must be only a few on your particular section of the network.
To give you a costing of what could be involved with an upgrade. There is the cabling back to the substation, any transformers that might be on the line.
A friend has just had the DNO upgrade their street. Part of the upgrade was a new 3 phase transformer. Not a more powerful one just new. He was speaking with the installation team about getting solar. They said the transformer alone is £35,000. I know this is roughly correct because I wanted to build a new house which had a poor single phase . We asked for a price to 3phase. 13 poles, cabling and new transformer £75,000
Alex321
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Either that or (more likely in my view) the network in our area has already been upgraded. I feel that is more likely because there are quite a few houses around with solar on their roofs.
Incidentally, I have just re-read the "offer" letter from Western Power Distribution (Our DNO) to Tile Energy, and it seems we are limited to 7Kw export on our 10Kw system.
Regarding the 7kw export,.do you have a 7kw inverter? If you do the installer would have put that on the g99 document and then the DNO say that's your max export.
Mine max export is 5kw,.just so happens I have a 5kw inverter. If I increase then I would need to reapply.
Mine max export is 5kw,.just so happens I have a 5kw inverter. If I increase then I would need to reapply.
That would be a waste of solar panels if the inverter couldn't supply the peak capacity.
Inverters can be software controlled to limit output to grid-G100 compliant
Id suspect that it could be passive, the owner is possibly taking some energy or is hardly ever near peak, so 7kW is not reached that often
Inverters can be software controlled to limit output to grid-G100 compliant
Id suspect that it could be passive, the owner is possibly taking some energy or is hardly ever near peak, so 7kW is not reached that often
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Alex321
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No, it is a 10kW inverter. I have seen 9.5Kw out of it, which is close to max expected.
It just won't export at more than 7kW.
Alex321
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That last is true. We have only had a few days in September/October when production has briefly hit 7kW. Going back to August, it hit 8kW on quite a few days, with most being between 7 & 8 maximum.
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Fortunately we have access to interest free loans up here . However I think that’s tempered with higher install costs ? Certainly looks like it ? £12/13k for 10kWh batt and 5kW solar array is standard. Max loan is £11k !
Not worth using all your own cash either way for me anyways . Thread digression !
Currently made a start on my loan application and have a quote from an installer . I doubt I’ll be exporting much from mine . We are high users , never below 10kWH a day , only drops below that when house is empty !
Alex321
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We use a bit less than that - average about 8kWh per day over the year, more in winter less in summer. We got such a big system partly to be future-proof if we later get an EV or switch to electric heating instead of gas.
Alex321
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We were in the fortunate position of having plenty of cash. Not sure interest free loans are available in Wales, and we'd rather not take out an interest bearing loan.
For us it was £20K for 10.14kW PV array and 16kWh battery plus all associated bits and install.
not currently, unless your a Social housing landlord and then its only grants to upgrade old houses
good luck on the loan request. but how long would it take to pay that money back if your a high end user and not exporting much??
