Solar Production Thread
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Not fitted a water heater , was waiting to see how the year goes , and how much excess I have . Todays has been best day so far , tomorrow should be similar .
I need to sign up for export asap though . Someone had mentioned Scottish Power were doing 12p kW ? No catch ?
I need to sign up for export asap though . Someone had mentioned Scottish Power were doing 12p kW ? No catch ?
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Octopus are doing more than that - and a few of us here have referral codes for them.
Yes 15p by looks of things however, would need to jump to them. Their flexible tariff seems dearer than what I’m currently on ? Which is the energy cap ?
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
I think the best choice for most with solar is Agile - for both in and out-going.
The amount you pay varies by each half hour, and is tied to the half hourly wholesale rates.
You can see the amounts you pay for incoming and get paid for outgoing over the last 48 hours here https://www.energy-stats.uk/octopus-agile-outgoing-export-southern-england/ (That is for South Wales, although it says southern_england in the URL). There are also averages for each half hour for the last year shown.
The rates are almost always highest (in both directions) between 16:30 and 19:30, and for a large chunk of the year, that is also going to be the time you are most likely to have a full battery, and therefore be exporting
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
We've decided not to go ahead with installing a ground-mounted array for the time-being. What we are going to do it have a 5.8kWh battery installed: because we're on an Economy 7 tariff we'll use the battery to charge up cheaply overnight, which should cut our bills significantly and offers a pay-back period of under 4 years. Of course, should our tariff be withdrawn, the cost-savings from having the battery would be lost, but it would give us a good basis for then going ahead with hooking up solar.
Unfortunately there's no VAT discount on battery-only installation...
Unfortunately there's no VAT discount on battery-only installation...
It could be extremely beneficial if someone clever with programming could access agiles pricing, then pick the lower 30 mins period tariffs throughout the day to charge cars, batteries, hot water tanks, even run the washing machine and tumble dryer
Then that would be a great system
Then that would be a great system
cougie uk
Guru
Sounds a decent plan. We have a 10kw battery that we charge off-peak overnight too. Solar tops it up and we run it down again in the evening/night.
Since we got it in January 95% of our electric is off-peak.
You do have to watch what you do in the daytime so you don't accidentally take peak power but you'll soon work that out.
seem to need an EV for off peak tariffs these days . Was swithering about moving to octopus just to get the higher export amount. I expect to start exporting bigger numbers in the months ahead. The FB groups don’t fill me confidence regarding their CS ? Could probably say the same for them all mind you .
Just to note my piddly wee system of 5kW has managed over 13kW today and had my 10kW batteries nearly fully charged by the time I came home from work . Want expecting much this morning /week as weather poor . However cooked dinner , dishwasher and now washing machine , 56% on the battery . Certainly helps !!
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cougie uk
Guru
13 for us too. I think I need to cut down on the charging at night so there's more space in the battery. I'm still learning.
cougie uk
Guru
Yes I believe you do need an EV to get the octopus Go tariff.
Their customer service rates really high from everything I have experienced and seen.
Very rare that you'll get people going online to make a fuss about how well things are going.
According to Martin Lewis -
Octopus has a really high customer service rating in polls I've done. I did a lot of research and surveys on which companies were best at transferring customers and who made it as painless as possible, and Octopus came top.
Like this? They show the stats the day before. They have two tweets one outgoing
and one for incoming.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Octopus show the prices themselves from about 4pm the day before - and those are the prices for you, not the national averages (the prices vary a little by region).
