Anyone with Solar and a battery? recent install

[fucketyfuckwit]

We are tempted to have solar installed with a battery.

The sales patter was that we could run the whole house and an electric car on it all year round.

I'm not sure I'm convinced!

£8k to supply and fit, including battery. We have a south facing roof high on a hill in Cornwall.

@fucketyfuckwit It certainly won't power it all year round but the cost of electricity makes it a much better option that it was a year ago.

What size/power of panels and battery are you being offered for that price.
Get a decent sized battery and you can take advantage of off peak lower prices to top up the battery during lower productivity months. We are with octopus and they have some deals that are about 8p for set overnight hours but, and this is the but, have a higher rate during the day. Hence, you need to balance your useage and battery storage. Still advantageous but needs the calcs.

You want to aim to use all your own power generation by direct use and storage in sunny months and then in winter, use part own generation and off peak electricity for general use.

we have solar panels and seriously looking at battery storage - just a bit of a pain that it is still 20% vat on battery only but zero if part of a battery/solar pv package. Would like 8-10kw for battery. Have a look at hot water diverters while you are considering the whole package.

A friend of mine did. They have a big house, 5 bedrooms, electric car and a heated pool. They make enough electricity to run the house all year, charge the car and heat the pool. The big difference is the battery. Having a battery means you can store the electricity so you can keep the energy for later, which you can’t do with just panels on their own.

@fucketyfuckwit you might get more traffic if you post/move this to property/diy section.