Great to see all the data. Looks like you use significantly less electricity than us (15Kwh a day) but we have only had our system in for 10 months and generated a little more at about 2950kwh. Have a great 2024.
Yeah, I'm pretty low on usage & everything is energy saving or efficiency centred. Typically 7-8kwh daily. December I've been importing daily overnight. On a day like today, I've also generated half of today's usage, so some money back from the grid & a full battery😁 Thanks for watching
Octopus have messed up my billing Info, so I'm waiting for a manual bill update giving me my total payback & expenditure for the last 12 months. Part 2 video will show the details
Thanks. I'm waiting for my December bill & year data from Octopus,, so I can see the exact amount paid for export. It's been great to have paid zero for electricity. I'm making about 1MW more than I use
@@blackcyclist family of 6 was brutal to reduce electricity. But doing it all diy and myself learnt loads. Unfortunately panels I bought back in June depreciation was half. Because longi and Canadian Solar now do panels from £60 to £85 so old Polycrystalline lost loads of value
Wow that's a lot of usage. Electric cars and a family? You will need a pretty substantial battery system too. For now this works well for me across the year. I will likely add more panels & larger inverter at some point in distant future.
@@blackcyclist because it's not on my roof the maximum I can fit in my garden is 7800 Watts. Being a mid terraced I'm surrounded back and sides by houses and trees.
@@blackcyclist but in the winter. You have to size your system if you want to be totally offgrid for your worst day in December / January. Even 8kw array may produce as little as 4 or 5 kwh. That's not enough to fill the battery. Pop the tumble dryer on, washing machine, dishwasher and the kettle and that's 5kwh is gone
@@sun-sea-solar yea I hear you there. You'll never be self sufficient on just solar in UK as there's always days in Dec Jan with zero sun due to dog mist and cloud 😁
Great to see all the data. Looks like you use significantly less electricity than us (15Kwh a day) but we have only had our system in for 10 months and generated a little more at about 2950kwh. Have a great 2024.
Yeah, I'm pretty low on usage & everything is energy saving or efficiency centred. Typically 7-8kwh daily. December I've been importing daily overnight. On a day like today, I've also generated half of today's usage, so some money back from the grid & a full battery😁
Thanks for watching
Octopus have messed up my billing Info, so I'm waiting for a manual bill update giving me my total payback & expenditure for the last 12 months. Part 2 video will show the details
That's a very positive outcome. I took my bill from 5800kwh in 2022 down to 3200kwh in 2023. A long way from being totally offgrid
Thanks. I'm waiting for my December bill & year data from Octopus,, so I can see the exact amount paid for export. It's been great to have paid zero for electricity. I'm making about 1MW more than I use
@@blackcyclist family of 6 was brutal to reduce electricity. But doing it all diy and myself learnt loads. Unfortunately panels I bought back in June depreciation was half. Because longi and Canadian Solar now do panels from £60 to £85 so old Polycrystalline lost loads of value
@@sun-sea-solar cool & amazing for doing it DIY. I know a lot of the cost goes into labour & skills. What battery capacity do you have?
Unfortunately I know I need a minium of 10,000 watt array to be offgrid through the grey winter months
Wow that's a lot of usage. Electric cars and a family? You will need a pretty substantial battery system too. For now this works well for me across the year. I will likely add more panels & larger inverter at some point in distant future.
@@blackcyclist because it's not on my roof the maximum I can fit in my garden is 7800 Watts. Being a mid terraced I'm surrounded back and sides by houses and trees.
@@sun-sea-solar surely 8k is enough peak power? You'd fill a 20kWh battery in just over 2 hours
@@blackcyclist but in the winter. You have to size your system if you want to be totally offgrid for your worst day in December / January. Even 8kw array may produce as little as 4 or 5 kwh. That's not enough to fill the battery. Pop the tumble dryer on, washing machine, dishwasher and the kettle and that's 5kwh is gone
@@sun-sea-solar yea I hear you there. You'll never be self sufficient on just solar in UK as there's always days in Dec Jan with zero sun due to dog mist and cloud 😁