Tag: Solar

December 2025 updates December Electric: I managed to maintain a 29.11% Peak/Off-Peak ratio, which is an improvement on last month’s 32.67%. This is largely due to the purchase of some additional battery units – more on that later. Much of the month was overcast, and/or had minimal sunshine, but an average UK December. Electricity costs…

November 2025 updates November Electric: I managed to maintain a 32.67% Peak/Off-Peak ratio, which is down on last month’s 31.15%. Much of the month was overcast, and/or had minimal sunshine, but that is an average UK November for you. Electricity costs for the month of November: £217.98 for 2025, £260.03 for 2024 and £455.33 for…

October 2025 updates October Electric: I managed to maintain a 31.15% Peak/Off-Peak ratio, which is down on last month’s 19.29%. There were a quite a few days that were overcast, and on the rest I managed to have only minimal peak usage. Electricity costs for the month of October: £216.17 for 2025, £198.76 for 2024…

September 2025 updates September Electric: I managed to maintain a 17.6% Peak/Off-Peak ratio, which down on last month’s 6.98%. There were a quite a few days that were overcast, and on the rest I managed to have only minimal peak usage. Electricity costs for the month of September: £149.85 for 2025, £151.93 for 2024 and…

August 2025 updates August Electric: I managed to maintain a 6.98% Peak/Off-Peak ratio, which up from last month’s 8.93%. There were a quite a few days that were overcast, and on the rest I managed to have only minimal peak usage. Electricity costs for the month of August: £107.10 for 2025, £123.22 for 2024 and…

July 2025 updates July Electric: I managed to maintain a 9.01% Peak/Off-Peak ratio, which down on last month’s 4.88%. There were a quite a few days that were overcast, and on the rest I managed to have only minimal peak usage. Electricity costs for the month of July: £120.07 for 2025, £110.63 for 2024 and…

June 2025 updates June Electric: I managed to maintain a 4.88% Peak/Off-Peak ratio, which is another improvement on last month’s 6%. There were 2 days that were overcast, and on the rest I managed to have only minimal peak usage. Electricity costs for the month of June: £98.90 for 2025, £161.98 for 2024 and £452.38…

May 2025 updates May Electric: I managed to maintain a 6% Peak/Off-Peak ratio, which is huge improvement on last month’s 12%. There were 3 days that were overcast, and on the rest I managed to have only minimal peak usage. The Peak usage on the sunny days is largely balancing the load between solar and…

My solar and battery system went live on 14th April 2024 so it has been active for just over a year. In this post I will concentrate on the generation purely from that initial configuration and make a later post that addresses the East and West arrays and the wider system when they have also…

I ordered three balcony privacy screens to cover the frames I had built for my batteries from a seller on Amazon. 2 x 120 x 180cm screens and 1 x 80 x 120cm screen, I also made use of a discount code that the seller was offering which gained me £5.76 off the total pice…