Improvements in and around my home
This is the seventh full month with the solar being active. Energy prices remained the same for this month, although there was 1 ‘Free Electricity’ event during the month. November Electric: The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of November was 55.17kWh, solar production was pretty poor with a low of 0.77kWh and…
This is the sixth full month with the solar being active. Energy prices went up this month, peak electricity went up from £0.2439/kWh to £0.2672/kWh, off-peak electricity remained at £0.70/kWh and the standing charge went up from £0.4785/day to £0.4879/day. October Electric: The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of October was 53.98kWh,…
This is the fifth full month with the solar being active. Energy prices remained the same for this month, although there was 1 ‘Free Electricity’ event during the month. September Electric: The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of September was 57.26kWh, we have quite a large variation in solar production from a…
This is the fourth full month with the solar being active. Energy prices remained the same for this month, although there were 4 ‘Free Electricity’ events during the month – more on that later. August Electric: The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of August was 60.73kWh, we have quite a large variation…
My last network upgrade post was on 16th December 2022, quite a bit has changed since then and I forgot to document any of it, so I will provide an update here. In September 2023, I purchased a larger 15U rack for use in my office, as I wanted a slightly deeper one so it…
I have seen some videos on YouTube recently where a number of people are moving away from Octopus Energy for various reasons, mainly because it makes financial sense for them. Not all of these moves were smooth or without issue, so before I consider moving, would I be better off financially by doing so? As…
Once I brought my East and West arrays online late on the 1st of July, along with the move into better weather with more sunshine, there was a much greater chance that I was going to start exporting a significant amount of energy back to the grid. With only my Garage and Office arrays in…
This is the third full month with the solar being active. Peak and off-peak electricity prices dropped from £0.279 Peak and £0.075 Off-Peak to £0.244 and £0.070 respectively, the standing charge remained the same at £0.456 per day. My East/West solar arrays went live late on the first day of the month, so this will…
We finally had some decent weather on a few weekends towards the end of May, so I was able to finish off the cabling for the East-West array install. I ran a 4 core 4mm2 SWA cable from the solar sub panel to the eaves of the garage. There is a rotary isolator at each…
This is the second full month with the solar being active. Peak and off-peak electricity prices remained the same as last two months. June Electric The average daily consumption, including solar, for the month of June was 59.21kWh, we had slightly less variation in solar production from a low of 11.49kWh up to a…