Solar panels

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I'm moving to a house with solar panels. Will it help much with keeping my bills down ?

It's helped us loads, charge devices and use washing machine etc in the day time

@Cookiecrumble22

I'm moving to a house with solar panels. Will it help much with keeping my bills down ?

How does it work . Is there a nutting test you press so everything becomes solar powered? Then what its run out you switch back to normal electricity?

Sorry I meant is there a button your press ?

On the electricity meter it says RED instead of displaying numbers when the solar power is working.

We notified the solar panel company when we moved in and they sent us a log in so we can see how much we have and how much we use.

@Livedandlearned

On the electricity meter it says RED instead of displaying numbers when the solar power is working.

We notified the solar panel company when we moved in and they sent us a log in so we can see how much we have and how much we use.

Ah ok. Thank you 😊

Hi - you do not need to actively do anything or press any buttons. If your solar panels are generating electricity, your house will automatically use it. It's worth knowing that they won't work in a power cut usually - i think it's a safety feature to stop them feeding power back to the grid and electrocuting anyone who might be fixing the line.

@Plantmoretrees

Hi - you do not need to actively do anything or press any buttons. If your solar panels are generating electricity, your house will automatically use it. It's worth knowing that they won't work in a power cut usually - i think it's a safety feature to stop them feeding power back to the grid and electrocuting anyone who might be fixing the line.

Ok thank you . I'm hoping it will save me some money and I will hopefully be less effected with the price hikes of electricity

Thank you for that info @Plantmoretrees that's interesting

I hardly have to have my hot water on in the summer. I live in a large four bedroom detached house and my dual fuel is £150 per month.

We've had solar panels installed (by Locogen) but I can't for the life of me find a way of monitoring it via an app or something. Company have been more than useless

What sort of inverter do you have? Is there an app that goes with the inverter you can get?

As I understand it, yes. We’ve just signed up and whilst it’s a big outlay the figures quoted were up to 80% on electricity. We are having two batteries so a) we use live generated power first 2) use batteries 3) use grid. If we see it sending back to the grid the idea is to stick on a wash etc rather than using grid electric later. We’ve ordered an electric car so hope this will make charging it much more cost effective