Del_UK Doram That price is about what I’d estimate., and much more realistic than the £20k previously stated… The prices are at least half what they were 5 years ago

My system was actually a few hundred quid less than I said. The total price I quoted included some extra bits, such as the bird (and hopefully squirrel) protection net…

For anyone thinking I got inferior components, then no: QCELLS 375W Panels, Solis Hybrid inverter, Pylon Batteries. Panels have a 12-year product warranty and 25-year linear performance warranty, Inverter and batteries have at least 10 years warranty, but I think more (can’t remember for sure). Installation and service were first class.

      Doram Some good kit there. I like the Solis stuff, and Qcells seem well built too. Not tried/fitted the Pylon stuff, but it’d be something I’d consider as it’s cheap and you can easily AC couple it and monitor with my existing Solaredge software, whereas a lot of the kit doesn’t play nice with Solaredge.

        Doram I know there is a trend here to to try and find the most expensive way to do things, but I’m old school so prefer to get a good deal when possible. ;-)

        I had 3 quotes for PV on the garage, none of them were less than 15K for 4kw and battery…ridiculous prices.

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            DavecUK I had 3 quotes for PV on the garage, none of them were less than 15K for 4kw and battery…ridiculous prices

            I also had a couple of quotes for considerably more, but also another one very similar to the one I went for. As with everything, I guess you need to shop around.

                Doram I also had a couple of quotes for considerably more, but also another one very similar to the one I went for. As with everything, I guess you need to shop around.

                Perhaps it’s just the area I live in…

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                    DavecUK Perhaps it’s just the area I live in…

                    Maybe. I live in a deprived area of the UK - Cambridge… :)

                        Doram Maybe. I live in a deprived area of the UK - Cambridge… :)

                        Perhaps, you saw the link, and I assure you my prices from 3 companies have been so expensive it couldn’t possibly be worth it? (If I could get it at a sensible price, I would do it.

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                            DavecUK If I could get it at a sensible price, I would do it.

                            The other reasonable quote I got was from E.on solar. Prices may have gone up since, but maybe worth checking?

                                Doram The other reasonable quote I got was from E.on solar.

                                What persuaded you to go with the other one? I’ve just signed up with the local “Solar Together” scheme to see what they can offer.

                                    Rob666 What persuaded you to go with the other one? I’ve just signed up with the local “Solar Together” scheme to see what they can offer.

                                    Both offers were similar in price and specs, and the E.ON one also had branded components (good panels, GIveEnergy inverter and batteries). I would happily go with either, but I only have one roof. I think what eventually tipped it for me were some psychological reasoning: Solar Together scheme does a tender and chooses a local(ish) company. The chosen company had good reviews and their website made a good impression. I also thought that because it’s a group buy, maybe they are offering better value to the group because of scale. In addition, they had the backing of the local authority.

                                    E.ON also made a good impression, but with them you don’t know which local installers you will get (they work nationally, but don’t install the systems themselves). I also preferred to go with the smaller, specialised local company than the multinational corporate.

                                    I’m pleased with my choice, and obviously can’t say much about the offer I didn’t chose, but had I not had the Solar Together option I would go with E.ON, and I have no reason to believe it wouldn’t be good as well.

                                    Here is the quotation from E.ON. You can see that the PV array is slightly bigger than what I got and the battery slightly smaller. I have another quotation with 9.5kWh battery which came up at £10.989. With E.ON you can also pay over 36 months with no interest:

                                        Side note app, tesco are operating on 97% profit compared to pre pandemic sales, mp therese coffey believes the main supermarkets are very competitive with each other and theres no price fixing going on, ….

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                                        11 days later

                                        Saw this today looking back at my pictures, what a difference a year makes, these went bump on me, shafting me with shell who plainly ripped us off for 6 months before we could move away

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                                          Gagaryn Old laptops in general continue to work - it’s our expectations and uses cases which makes them obsolete

                                          Whilst this is generally true, there are two important factors to consider.

                                          1. Both windows and Mac software will only be supported for a certain time frame on both operating systems, raising security issues once software updates stop
                                          2. Batteries will need replacing and may not be available.

                                              We are still on the good old rate. Ends in Sep this year.

                                              Power 18.82 now; standing charge 21.68

                                              Gas 3.8; standing charge 23.73

                                              I worked out that the cost of living increase from 22-23 has seen us as a family loose just under £3000 to it

                                              And as a small business owner I’ve not been able to give myself a pay rise since 2020, staff have.

                                              Any increase in profit our business has made has gone to the increase in all overhead

                                              It’s a very bad time to run a small micro business

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                                                Nightrider_1uk Absolutely on the updates. An operating system without security updates, if it’s being connected to the internet, is just a timebomb.