Our April Electricity Bill is £16.68! East West Solar (UK) - April 2023 Update 

Thank's Tach17, glad you liked it!

Thank's Kev! Good luck with the install next week!

@@East2WestSolar scaffolding is up! 😁

@@East2WestSolar the panels are on, the inverter and batteries are in the loft, just need the electrician tomorrow to finish off, connect up and commission! I did ask on a different video, do you happen to know what your annual production figure was, im predicted just shy of 5000kwh a year off of 6375kwp of panels. I think your going to beat that by a fair bit being as you’re east and west.

@@KelpieKev Great News! And in answer to your question - the installers predicted that our solar generation would be in the region of 4700 kWh per year. We are currently at 2,800 kWh after 8.5 months, but last month we generated 633kWh's, and we are at 613kWh's for May already.

@@East2WestSolar that’s a decent amount, I thought having a split system you might be higher than that. I don’t understand the calculation though… we have just had our first afternoon on solar, at 17:45 we are making 400w, I am interested to see the first really sunny day!

I wondered the same! I work from home and have 2 fridges and 2 freezers and we average 10, sometime 7-8 if the dishwasher or tumble dryer don’t go on, sometimes 14-15 if I have the pressure washer out or the wife does 5 loads of laundry 😆

@@KelpieKev maybe they are growing a lot of indoor tomatoes?

His loft isn’t tall enough 🤣

@@TobotronPrime definitely not! it's just full of boxes from when we moved in 11 years ago! In answer to your question - I work from home so I have 2 PCs on the go (work Laptop and home PC) plus a couple of servers for media and home automation. There are 3 adults and 1 teen at home so the washing machine is on regularly, the tumble dryer less so now we are in spring. But we have TVs, large Fridge Freezer, Electric Oven (which draws the most power when it's on). And you'd be surprised how much a kettle draws; myself and my wife get through a fair amount of tea!

@@East2WestSolar thanks for the reply! maybe its worth changing some appliances? I have a new build which came with of course all new A rated appliances and my baseload while working from home is about 150-200w I don't find that PCs draw a lot of power - laptops almost nothing, you could even move your home automation over to raspberry pi's for ultimate efficiency!? For comparison we are 2 adults, also wfh and doing a normal amount of washing etc and it comes in at an avg of 6 to 8kw a day - its only more when I plug the BMW i3 in, but I have that set to only charge while there is excess solar generation so its prioritising house > house battery > car I thought with your usage maybe you had a heat pump running, used electric to heat the water. or had an electric car being charged?!

Hi Grdtrm. Our installers were looking at 9-10 years as a conservative estimate - but we are currently at 12 years due to the issues we had late last year with our inverter not recognising that the Batteries were connected. Take a look at the video on our first 6 months experience - that shows how the ROI has changed as the unit price has gone up each quarter.