by Suff » 05 Jan 2024, 20:50
WM, we should be doing both.
I have some disincentive to put in solar as in the fact that 30km down the road is a sodding great Nuclear power station. I can't even virtue with solar as it will make not one iota of difference to the CO2 emissions.
Well I say that but we do get power outages every month or so, so we'd reduce the amount of time I have to run the genny.
If I put in Solar here (Mrs S has capitulated and said we'll do it this year, believe it when I see it), I will need to go off grid to truly save. The standing charge is high and if you don't use a state subsidised package (I won't they don't fit my size of property), EDF and Energis charge you €8k to connect to the grid.
The obvious solution is to go totally off grid, switch off the connection and the standing charge, flip the middle finger and carry on. But this means storage and quite a lot of it, plus about tow to three times the normal panel layout. Which is even more expensive. Although I can get x4 the normal panel layout for only half the cost of connecting to the grid.
The cost of storage is, finally, coming down.
My most recent foray into what it will all cost net's the following changes since the early 2000's.
Then and now.
Inverters, 15kw £25,000 £1,500
Storage, 15kw £15,000 £3,600
Panels, 15kw £30,000 £3,000
Fittings, rails etc, still cost around £2,000 if you are really digging into sites and buying components to build your own kits. Nearly £6,000 if you take a kit.
As you can see I'm just over the cost of connecting to the grid. But it takes quite some time to get back £8k in investment. Even with the much higher power draw profile that I have.
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