SOLAR PANELS in WINTER - Our Experience 

For those interested here are the solar production figures during our time with the system in kWh: Mar 23 - 246.05 Feb 23 - 164.8 Jan 23 - 95.5 Dec 22 - 97 Oct 22 - 283 Sep 22 - 249 Aug 22 - 622

Truly believe battery storage is the way forward and in most cases, especially in the winter. Would be good to see a follow up video showing your generation over the last year and how you faired last winter.

Congratulations on getting through your first winter. We had solar panels in 2012 but it was fitting the Powerwall in 2020 that made the most difference to our bills. Losing the EV will give you lots of excess to sell. Interesting to see which Octopus tariff you go through but I think it will be the most recent one, Octopus Flux. With the amount of surplus you have you won’t need to export from your battery causing unnecessary cycling. I look forward to your next video.

Great video. Totally agree with your conclusions. Hope you are well.

Great info to help inform me in future solar + battery install. Thanks

Great video!

Watching your experiences with interest, we are just approaching retirement so I am trying to calculate wether it would be worth it....many thanks for your input , most usefull. We are in a very sunny area in Cornwall with almost all day sun roof exposure

We have a similar setup. 6.6kw array and 20kw battery installed in January. I do agree that the battery is essential to make it worthwhile. I was very tempted to do what you have suggested and to charge the battery at night at the cheaper rate to use during the day. I will definitely consider it in the winter months. As the days are getting longer we have started to export more to the grid on Octopus Outgoing Fixed at 15p/kWh. I was considering the Flux tariff but I was finding it a little confusing as to whether it would actually save money. Is the suggestion from Octopus to shift your energy usage off grid and use the battery during peak times in order to save?

Really useful video thanks. I followed this from when you got it first installed. I wonder if you thought about increasing either the storage or is the current PV still not enough to fill the 10kw battery store? I'm moving into a new house in the country and planning on 20KW solar and a 30kw battery storage.. I wonder if this will be enough! Looking forwards to your next update.

Interesting video, I've just placed an order for solar installation with hot water diverter and battery. Any change you can send me the excel spreadsheet you use for filling in the monthyl data.....would save me creating one :)

Thanks for a really interesting video. I have looked into getting a solar pv system myself and SolarEdge was one that I had quotes for so great to get honest feedback. Have you worked out when the savings you make will cover the costs of the system? I worked out that mine would take well over 10 years even at today’s high energy prices so couldn’t justify it.

Thank you for the video! Are you planning a follow up?

The import thing is to make sure you're using all the solar you're array is producing, we found having an EV made sure we use all of it, and we use a Sunamp for our hot water which will also optymises our 4kw solar production. We have a 32kWh house battery and in winter this comes in very useful using the cheap over night Octopus Go tariff. This way your payback period shrinks.

Very informative, how much did this entire system cost you?

Great video. Would be good to find out how you got on last year with your solar setup... Any plans for an update? thanks

Useful sensible video. My concern would be future tariff changes as more people charge batteries at night and the suppliers realise they can increase the rates. But I guess there is no way put as long as we have governments obsessed with dubious climate change policies.

Another honest video. Did you have any numbers of kWh generation over winter months. And a split between the west facing and lower South facing generation?

Just use EDF night tariff. 8p a kw. Charge your battery to 9.5kw (biggest size) & use that during the day. 8p a kw electric all year round. No need for solar panels

Hi, I’ve been following what you’ve been doing since you installed your solar panel system - really great to hear about your experiences. We’re moving into a new build in October and plan to install a similar system. Given what you know now, I’d be really keen to get your thoughts on what you’d recommend, especially in terms of an inverter and a battery

Awesome, do you think it’s possible to go 100% solar in the uk? What wold be your option for that? More panels and/or a generator?

Did you join the Solaredge incentive program?

Hi there I was offered 13x410w trina panels 9kwh battery 5kw inverter How much daily kwh in Edinburgh area this set can produce...any ideas? Totally £9k for this set

20!

if you paying 34p KWH on the price cap, no point in charging the battery. cheaper just to the using power when needed, round trip losses etc.

When should we expect your next solar update? Tia

you can almost double your August kw in June. your May, June and July will be huge. I have a decent system 9.4kw solar, 60kw battery I am off grid 10 months. other 2 months I pay 1/2 of what I normally would. I am adding more panels to help that even more. If you can add panels to your fence to produce more it would help even more. I love how you are doing your part. Now with the world in such a state of shite I would try to get enough to power your house 9-12 months a year maybe have a generator as backup. I would triple your battery storage for sure. I do not trust we will have power in the future from the stand point of how things are going. Try to find used solar panels also it saves you.

Great video explaining what I deem to be a nightmare. Optimising and micro-managing your life just to be efficient and cost effective to sustain a reasonable quality of life, (or green reason). I'm certainly not having a go a you mate but this whole climate change, cost of living, drive to sustainability, etc., is beyond comprehension. I'm old enough to remember when gas had 1 price, electric had 1 price, (+ economy 7) if that suited and petrol/diesel was something you'd put in your tank to get to work and back for a week, just an included travel cost so you didn't have to travel of the germ infested public transport..... None of this "when's the best time to charge my car and on what tariff?". We're all being taken for suckers. Don't get me started on online banking and self-serve tills!!! Arghhhhh!!!

This guy is to slow to watch