luisgutz

That's probably one of the best endorsement you can get

No. And especially not from him

Get a larger battery.

By far the lion share if the savings come from internal usage. Export payments are 20% of so of electricity costs, so you want to be using what you generated.

I have a 5.4kW array, and a 8.8kWh battery. 15% of the battery has to be reserved, so actual capacity is lower.

We basically live off grid for 6-7 months, but winter production is so low (aprox 20% of summer ) that it's hard to even fill up the battery.

But a larger battery would help for those spring and autumn months when some days are good, some are bad.

For reference, comercial installation have a 4:1 ratio of battery capacity to production. In my case that would be 20kWh! Or 5 days of average consumption.

One final thing to say is that our battery system is capped to 3kW. So even when full, if we ask more electricity than that at any point we would be importing.

What this means is that going gas free is harder, as some appliances (hob, kettle) consume a lot.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Funny enough, the article mentions 54 billion of investment on the national grid is needed over the next 10 years, and hinkley point currently costs 31!

Also consider how much renewables that investment could buy; its not just 31billon of today money that will start to see some benefit 20 years after it was started.

No bonus for GBE CEO, but dividend payments are still allowed as well as share buy back.

That will teach them nothing. At the very least the water should be not for profits. Much better would be to nationalize them: a public monopoly is much preferred over a private one, as at least they are accountable to the pubic and are meant to work on their behalf.

Not exactly: as pointed above, in the UK the cost of electricity is set by the most expansive provider that is needed. Most of the time that is gas. So electricity cost is high because gas costs are high

That is how it works on the UK.

Awesome! Now do water

There is no action. These countries could stop sales of all weapons to Israel and at least slow done the genocide. Or they could support the ICJ and arrest netanyahu.

They do nothing but a weak public announcement.

Source?

Mhhh, I can't find what the actual import duties are. The closest I found was this article https://www.whatcar.com/news/chinese-car-tariffs-will-not-go-ahead-uk-government-confirms/n27198 that suggest there is none (unlike in the EU, where the rate is 35%).