Hello all,
Long term lurker here, but decided to introduce myself to you all.
My goal to is add a solar / home power system to my house, here on the south coast of England, and I will require some advice.
So, let me explain where I am on my home power journey.
Firstly I definitely want to reduce my reliance on (peak) Grid electricity and natural gas, so I want to get as much solar PV energy into the mix as possible. The challenge is that our house is the northern facing one of a semi-detached pair. However, we've recently moved to Octopus Energy, who provide a 100% renewable tariff, and having had a smart meter installed this week, we will hopefully be moving to their Agile Tariff soon, which allows customers to leverage drops in energy pricing.
To use this properly, I really need to build a home battery system, to charge at the cheapest rates and use at peak times, so that's my first goal. I'm in the process of assessing the overall 'demand' of the house to size this.
Adding solar PV is tricky as I mentioned, but we had a loft conversion previously, so I'm thinking I might be able to put some up top on that. See photo below:
Is this possible, I have concerns about having panels exposed like that, so your advice on ALL of this will help.
I'd also love to explore heat pumps for heating the house, to remove the costly and polluting natural gas from the system, but this is VERY expensive here.
So, hello everyone, I'm open to suggestions...
Long term lurker here, but decided to introduce myself to you all.
My goal to is add a solar / home power system to my house, here on the south coast of England, and I will require some advice.
So, let me explain where I am on my home power journey.
Firstly I definitely want to reduce my reliance on (peak) Grid electricity and natural gas, so I want to get as much solar PV energy into the mix as possible. The challenge is that our house is the northern facing one of a semi-detached pair. However, we've recently moved to Octopus Energy, who provide a 100% renewable tariff, and having had a smart meter installed this week, we will hopefully be moving to their Agile Tariff soon, which allows customers to leverage drops in energy pricing.
To use this properly, I really need to build a home battery system, to charge at the cheapest rates and use at peak times, so that's my first goal. I'm in the process of assessing the overall 'demand' of the house to size this.
Adding solar PV is tricky as I mentioned, but we had a loft conversion previously, so I'm thinking I might be able to put some up top on that. See photo below:
Is this possible, I have concerns about having panels exposed like that, so your advice on ALL of this will help.
I'd also love to explore heat pumps for heating the house, to remove the costly and polluting natural gas from the system, but this is VERY expensive here.
So, hello everyone, I'm open to suggestions...