Joining the Renewable Heating Hub forums is completely free and only takes a minute. By registering you’ll be able to ask questions, join discussions, follow topics you’re interested in, bookmark useful threads and receive notifications when someone replies. Non-registered members also do not have access to our AI features. When choosing your username, please note that it cannot be changed later, so we recommend avoiding brand or product names. Before registering, please take a moment to read the Forum Rules & Terms of Use so we can keep the community helpful, respectful and informative for everyone. Thanks for joining!
New 14.3 kWp + 30kwh battery incoming.
So our residential setup is a bit different to most as we have a small 60sqm holiday let in our grounds which is fed off the same supply and meter. And it’s hard to control how much electric guests use!
last year in the depths of winter, with a (badly tuned) ASHP running and panel rads in the holiday let we. Oils use 130kWh of electric in a day.
So to help keep the prices lower we went out to get some batteries. With the intention of charging up off peak using Octopus Go at 8.25p
In this scenario obviously the more the better but it’s making them cost effective and not doing nothing in summer.
so we settled on 30kWh of batteries. After asking for over 20 quotes we got 3 back! Thankfully a local company look good so we’ve gone with them
With the VAT being a few grand, we then decided we may as well add some solar and pay 0% VAT. We already have 9KwP on the holiday let which works for both that and the house and now we’re adding just over 5kWp to the house.
So it should be a rather nice system. Overall it will be:
9.1kwp East/Weat array
8kW Solis 3 ph inverter
5.2kWp south facing array
10kW hybrid Sunsynk 3ph Inverter
30kWh Sunsynk BYD batteries.
plus
2x Eddi
1x Zappi
1x 14kW Ecodan
We also swapped the panel radiator in the main kitchen:lounge in the holiday let with a 2.5Kw Mitsubishi Air to Air unit. Which is working great for heating. So far the thirsty panel radiators in the bedroom haven’t even been plugged in!
hoping for install of the new solar and batteries in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully the extra solar will help with the autumn/winter/spring output.
250sqm house. 30kWh Sunsynk/Pylontech battery system. 14kWp solar. Ecodan 14kW. BMW iX.
Have you not considered installing a separate electricity meter in the holiday let, with a clause that any usage above a certain amount will be added to the bill?
- 26 Forums
- 2,724 Topics
- 63.8 K Posts
- 1,065 Online
- 7,125 Members
Join Us!
Installer Finder
Degrees of Separation
Latest Posts
-
RE: Jokes and fun posts about heat pumps and renewables
Plenty of butts 'round 'ere but
By Transparent , 10 minutes ago
-
RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
Have either quote provided room by room heat loss calcu...
By Old_Scientist , 14 hours ago
-
RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?
@old_scientist if you are going DIY then you may wan...
By Papahuhu , 2 days ago
-
RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
After a short while that was followed by the 'power war...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
-
RE: Samsung heat pump - data cable issue
That's well done. Cable is the correct type (LIYCY = 2x...
By bobflux , 2 days ago
-
RE: Electricity price predictions
I agree, we will find out at the next budget whether th...
By Old_Scientist , 3 days ago
-
RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
@editor I went through HG website, so should be ok for ...
By sttpd1917 , 3 days ago
-
Who did the Freedom Heat Pump cloud server and what did...
By Mars , 3 days ago
-
RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
Reading between the lines of what octopus are doing wit...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
-
RE: Air to air bus grant installer anywhere
The through wall two hole ones have their place (listed...
By EtchedPixels , 3 days ago
-
I hope it goes ok, Hon can be hard to set up IF the sof...
By Graham Hendra , 3 days ago
-
@clockworks Hi, So there is a big difference between st...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 3 days ago
-
@editor wellvery comprehensive answer. I will get all i...
By Keithb , 3 days ago
-
RE: Advice on my Heat Pump Journey: Old Stone Built Detached Cottage
all good advice I will follow this up
By PaulC , 3 days ago
-
Heat of vaporization of water is 2.25 MJ/kg (0.625 kWh/...
By bobflux , 4 days ago




