Gas & Electricity

[Kompany Car]

Anyone on a contract without a standing charge ? Apparently these exist but you pay a lot more per kWh.

Interested as I’m getting 12kW (10.8kW when you take into account conversion efficiency) of Solar and a battery installed which throughout most of the year should supply all my electricity, should only need to use electricity from the grid in the depths of winter and that will hopefully be offset by my regeneration onto the grid in the summer.

 

[diegoalv]

Anyone has water solar panel? What are the pros / cons? Thanks in advance
This article https://original.newsbreak.com/@joa...ow-solar-panels-can-save-or-drain-your-budget made me think a lot about our consumption habits and what we can do to change it for better.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Anyone on a contract without a standing charge ? Apparently these exist but you pay a lot more per kWh.

Interested as I’m getting 12kW (10.8kW when you take into account conversion efficiency) of Solar and a battery installed which throughout most of the year should supply all my electricity, should only need to use electricity from the grid in the depths of winter and that will hopefully be offset by my regeneration onto the grid in the summer.

Think Andy Hinch may do mate, think he may be PAYG.

 

[remember arthur mann]

It is utterly ridiculous how they have us over like this.
Rip-off Britain.

Everyone wanted that cnut. Thatcher in power, this is what you get.

 

[bluealf]

Everyone wanted that **** Thatcher in power, this is what you get.

Thatcher eh, interesting, my energy bills seemed alright last year though.

Though I'm sure I voted labour back then, Blair stopped that and Stammmmmar will not be reigniting it.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Everyone wanted that **** Thatcher in power, this is what you get.

Not sure everyone did

 

[frothy]

Not sure everyone did

Everyone wanted that cnut. Thatcher in power, this is what you get.

FFS we have had Blair and Brown and other tossers since, they made a big difference didn't they

 

[denislawsbackheel]

They couldn’t undo the pillaging of nationally owned assets she sold to her mates.

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Anyone on a contract without a standing charge ? Apparently these exist but you pay a lot more per kWh.

Interested as I’m getting 12kW (10.8kW when you take into account conversion efficiency) of Solar and a battery installed which throughout most of the year should supply all my electricity, should only need to use electricity from the grid in the depths of winter and that will hopefully be offset by my regeneration onto the grid in the summer.

A 12kWh array is massive mate (I’m jealous).
You might be surprised at how much you’ll generate ever in winter.

We’ve got a 4kWh array on a large bungalo, all the cooking and what have you are electric, we’ve done a cotton wash and dried it today. Cooked meals, had electric showers, boiled water for countless brews, defrosted stuff in the microwave, powered 2 fridges and 3 freezers, had the lights on and the cats heated blanket etc.
At 11pm I checked usage for the day and we’d used 83p worth in the 23 hours since midnight.
We were generating circa 1.5 / 2kW for about 4 hours (and a bit before and after) and it was enough to cover all the ‘high use’ activities.

On bright winter days we just stagger what we’re doing so that we don’t exceed generation and cause us to draw from the grid.
When there’s no sunshine going on we put the washer & tumble drier on overnight when it‘s only a fraction of the peak hour cost, but you’ll have so much generating capacity that, even on dull days, you might not need to bother with that.

I’m planning another 4KW array, on a south facing double garage roof and whopping great battery. Still be way behind your set up but should be enough for us to have nothing to worry about ‘except’ the standing charge.

 

[Blue Maverick]

@OccupiedPalestineBlues and when we are all doing it they’ll put the standing charge at £10 a day