The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

I'm in hospital talk to you soon

That was out of the blue.
Hope everything is OK for you. Yeah, I do realise you wouldn't be there if all was OK but you get my meaning.

 

[Dave7]

I had it done after I moved in

I am not totally certain about it being financially worth it long term but it is certainly helping out a lot

it would e better if the electric companies still had the "free electric after 2 a.m." offers that some like Octopus used to have

but EDF had a thing where I got free electric on Sunday as I had diverted power away from "peak periods" of 4-7 in th evenings
in reality I set the batteries to charge off the grid before 4 so we used them for a few hours before they ran out
then got free power all day Sunday

Our roof is not ideal and we can only have a few panels in 2 different groups but it does work pretty well when it has some sun

I thought about it years ago when all the cowboys were pushing it. At my age I would have to live till im 127 to make it viable.

 

[Paulus]

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No sh@t Sherlock

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

No sh@t Sherlock

to be fair I have also lived nearly all my life surrounded by water

all round the coast of Great Britain in fact

even people who have always lived in Tibet live surrounded by water
it is just a long way away

Hope this helps

 

[Paulus]

A bit of a ride ride the lanes, about 10 miles or so. Followed by a few pints in the Mitre. Got home had a cup of tea and a few ginger cookies and the cut the grass again. It's starting to look a bit tidier now.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I thought about it years ago when all the cowboys were pushing it. At my age I would have to live till im 127 to make it viable.

It was very much worth it at one point
AT that point the panels were not was good as they are now and the feed-in tariff was fixed at quite a high amount and based on a percentage fo what the panels generated
Then they started using meters that could measure what you pushed back onto the grid and it all changed

but that initial phase explains why a lot of ex-council houses in my sister-in-law's street have them - companies paid people to put them on the roof and the company gets the feed in tariff
but the people in the house still get to use anything generated if before it gets pushed out to the grid

I started looking just after that changed!!

but at the time was was also thinking of moved over here so only got it done a few years later when it had got worse again!!!

 

[Tenkaykev]

I had it done after I moved in

I am not totally certain about it being financially worth it long term but it is certainly helping out a lot

it would e better if the electric companies still had the "free electric after 2 a.m." offers that some like Octopus used to have

but EDF had a thing where I got free electric on Sunday as I had diverted power away from "peak periods" of 4-7 in th evenings
in reality I set the batteries to charge off the grid before 4 so we used them for a few hours before they ran out
then got free power all day Sunday

Our roof is not ideal and we can only have a few panels in 2 different groups but it does work pretty well when it has some sun

last year our panels paid for all our electrical usage, and contributed £200+ to our gas bill. We have since gone all electric so will self consume most if not all of our generation. Got a special export session scheduled for an hour this evening, our batteries are full and they will be paying £1 per kWh 😎

 

[Tenkaykev]

It was very much worth it at one point
AT that point the panels were not was good as they are now and the feed-in tariff was fixed at quite a high amount and based on a percentage fo what the panels generated
Then they started using meters that could measure what you pushed back onto the grid and it all changed

but that initial phase explains why a lot of ex-council houses in my sister-in-law's street have them - companies paid people to put them on the roof and the company gets the feed in tariff
but the people in the house still get to use anything generated if before it gets pushed out to the grid

I started looking just after that changed!!

but at the time was was also thinking of moved over here so only got it done a few years later when it had got worse again!!!

There's a very big markup on the kit ( City Electrical sells excellent panels over the counter for £60-£80 retail )
Midsomer Wholesale supply the installers with a complete package of panels, inverter, wiring etc etc that arrived in a box delivered to site ready to install. Of course with such high margins a lot of cowboy companies have been setting up so it's important to choose an established concern with a good reputation.
It was only relatively recently that I discovered that solar export is used by the local grid, so at the moment my neighbours are using my. Exported electricity. ( and next door neighbour who got issued an electric Kia company car to replace his petrol fuelled one is looking particularly pleased not to be caught up in the mad dash to the pumps )