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I’m not aware of these schemes - how does this substitute your home generation?
Conventionally, your inverter would supply the electricity to your house when the solar PV generates it, and only top-up with a draw from the grid whe...
Quite the array you've got planned but it sounds like you're going to be well prepared for the ASHP. With our 4 kWp array, we easily get the 9.5 kWh b...
🤣 that would be extraordinary
@batalto I agree. I mean I appreciate that Mars’ house is much bigger than ours (3-bed semi, 1950ies build) - prior to swapping our tumble dryer, we u...
Nice work and thanks for sharing batalto! Have reached out to a few more companies for quotes, will keep you posted on how that's going.
@batalto Yeah if I knew the split...they haven't split the quote up I'm afraid! I will make sure to add this to the list of questions re the inverter....
@batalto thanks that's really useful. I was definitely going to install a battery (currently considered 5 kWh for a 4-5 kW system) so the inverter wou...
Ah fair enough, I wondered how you had achieved that with ASHP on a 8.4kW system in a house that's got a much larger footprint than ours 🙂 But I've o...
I've just come across this post as I'm trying to catch up on solar PV (had some quotes now) and gather you must be feeling rather chuffed with yoursel...
I guess the former is currently unlikely 😉
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