Solar Panels

Free Electricity From Octopus. One of the many reasons I love Octopus Energy is when you get emails such as the one below. Free electricity for one hour on the Thursday night and a whole three hours on the Saturday between 12 - 3pm. I have a number of solar panels and a Tesla Powerwall II home battery as well as two electric cars. Free electricity in the evenings is … [Read more...] about Free Electricity From Octopus

Can I have More Solar Panels? That was a question that was bugging me for several years now. In 2017 I had installed 20 295w panels on my rear south east facing roof and have been very pleased with the solar generation from them ( you can read about that installation here Are Solar Panels A Good Investment In The UK ). I have always been conscious however that in the late … [Read more...] about Can I have More Solar Panels

Solar Generation November 2023 As can be seen from the chart below I generated 233.04 kWh of electricity in November 2023 from our solar panel array. My consumption for the month came to 505.05 kWh. Comparative Energy … [Read more...] about Solar Generation November 2023

Solar Generation October 2023  Following on from last months disaster we did not get any solar generation until the new Solaredge inverter was fitted on the 18th October 2023 thus nearly a whole month was lost due to this failure. … [Read more...] about Solar Generation October 2023

Solar Generation September 2023 and Solaredge Inverter Failure We have had a disastrous end to September 2023 solar generation. On the 25th September we had a Solaredge inverter failure which shut down our solar generation. I have no doubt due to the good weather we would have beat last Septembers generation figures had it not failed. This also had consequences for our … [Read more...] about Solar Generation September 2023 and Solaredge Inverter Failure