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6.1kw array, South facing. West Midlands. 701kWh generated. 519 kWh exported.
I had a Daikin 8kw installed by Octopus in September. I took out their £9 a month plan which covers warranty and an annual service for 5 years. Th...
@toodles yes superb, today plus yesterday totals 60kw yield, 42kw exported 👍 Looking full sun for the next 4 days here too.
Our 1st winter with 6.1kWp solar. South facing no shading Dec 108kw Jan 213kw Feb 247kw
That's unfortunate. Hopefully they get to your area in future as they do tend to quote a good price.
Didn't you fancy trying a quote from Octopus?
I'm similar to you, 4 bed, 6.1 solar, 6.4 battery. I went with Octopus with 8kw heat pump. £2250 after grant. I've looked into increasing battery...
January with 6.1kWp system was 213kWh, double that of December. Jan 30th best of 21.3kWh Jan 1st worst of 0.9kWh West Midlands South facing
@sunandair Like you say it varies dependant on OAT, but room temperature over the last week it averages 1 around 1.5 Deg drop. This is till 4am w...
@sunandair Yes the -2 takes it off the LWT, and I have the Daikin 8kw Using offset, obviously keeps the heat pump running as opposed to stop/star...
@sunandair I've just recently started using pure weather compensation which is what you seen to be looking for. It's building the same weather c...
108 kW/h solar produced for the whole of December. 10 days of January so far and up to 62 kW/h. The negative in January is it's been almost const...
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