Those with solar panels - what are your monthly bills for electricity/

[thebellagio]

I'm literally having solar panels installed as we speak. We've gone for 14 panels on a south facing garden along with a battery for evening usage

I'm just intrigued as to what people are paying in the summer for electricity as well as how that compares to the winter.

Our electricity usage has typically been 234kWh (July) 234kwh (August) and 203kWh (September). Obviously this will go up from now on as we use more lights etc, but I'm just interested in how much other people use and how much we can realistically save each month on our bills

How is it going OP? We are having ours installed in a few weeks. 15 panels plus battery

Joining in here as we are having panels fitted soon. The fitter is just ordering in all the parts. We have gone for 23 panels split over two roofs and two batteries. Council have just announced a £1000 grant towards them so filled in the application form for that too.

I wish we could have had a larger system but the DNO wouldn’t allow it so we have a 5Kw limit

I have solar panels and spend roughly £50 on electricity in a 3 bedroom house

Op I would have thought your bills would be very low if you can use your appliances during the day. If you are only using 230ish kWh a month and you’re having 14 panels plus a battery you should presumably be forecast to generate much more than you’re using?

Our 15 panel system should generate about 5000kwh. We are high users though of about 7500kwh a year

I have solar but we didn't install it ourselves. So i don't have the details. No battery. It definitely makes a difference. We sell a lot back too.

So i focus on energy intensive appliances like washer, dryer, dishwasher running during the day and do beds and towels etc on sunny days.

But we were told to also stagger appliance's whenever possible to reduce the likelihood of paying for any. So i'd never have the dishwasher and washer on at the same time.

I think it is so variable. It completely depends on how your solar panels are set up to work (and obviously your own usage patterns). We have solar panels and the solar is used to heat our water and then sold on to the National Grid. Our direct debit has been £165 a month for electric (not sure what it's going up to yet as of October) and we earn about £800 a year from a buy-back tariff (I'm not sure this exists for new solar panels anymore though). We have oil heating, so that's extra, but we don't put the heating on this early. It's a 5 bed detached house, plus 3 outbuildings with power. I think that's very good, but I am fastidious about turning off lights and not wasting electricity, so I think it's more that than the solar, to be honest.

We had solar panels fitted in July. Aug/Sep we spent £64.12 on electricity and received £90.67 from exporting. Sep/Oct we spent £86.27 on electricity and received £55.87 from exporting.

That’s interesting to read from everyone. Our panels only finished today as the sparky didn’t finish the job. It’s exciting to see the smart meter move to zero! Haha

What is your system predicted to generate OP?