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@papahuhu Only couple of bedrooms and potentially one downstairs living room. The other downstairs open plan living dining kitchen has far too much gl...
@tim441 Our annual usage is about 3000 kWh for the heat pump, 1300 kWh for the EV and about 3500 for other household. I tend not to discharge from the...
@tim441 That's so true about doing things differently with more knowledge. But, I am glad I discovered this community before we installed our ASHP. Lo...
@tim441 Two reasons, the panels are South West facing. Plus, lots of clipping due to the 3.6 kW inverter. Our DNO approved only 6 kW export, and given...
What a month it has been for solar! We saw our best ever generation with excess of 700 kWh, even higher than last June. Sunny wise, probably June was ...
@peterackstraw What's the calculated heat loss for your property? Ours is a relatively new build with a heat loss of about 6 kW for approx 200 sqm hou...
@trebor12345 20% does sound excessive. Gemini suggests daily standby consumption of around 500 Wh to 800 Wh for a Powerwall, so yours seems to be much...
@trebor12345 I don't have a Tesla, but my Growatt inverter consumes about 30 wH on standby mode. So, over 5 hours it loses about 1%. In winter, this w...
Thanks @old_scientist, that's good to know. Our battery often stays above 90% during the summer months unless we run the dishwasher late in the evenin...
@old_scientist Same here, we don't touch the grid after 5:30 am, but glad to help the grid when it needs and get compensated for the same. And this sa...
@old_scientist We have a savings session today and I have signed up. Have set up the battery inverter to export to the grid at that time. Let's see ho...
Our June 2026 generation is down too. We generated about 630 kWh when compared to 690 kWh last year. This June is almost the same as 2024 June though....
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