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.

                a month later

                If anyone is on the Octopus Tracker - keep an eye out when it’s due to expire.

                Last year the email was worded as “do nothing and we will continue you on the tracker”

                This year “do nothing and we will put you on the flexible tariff - please reply to the email if you wish to stay on the tracker”

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                Matt

                To be fair to Octopus they let me know in very good time when my deal was coming to an end and yes, said the same to me, giving me plenty of time to look at the new tariffs and go for one that suited me being an EV driver, which gives me 10p per kWh between the hours of 11:30pm and 5:30am when I charge my car.

                Having said that, I’m not even having to use the home charger at the moment, because where my other half works (42 miles round trip) they have just got EV’s for thier managers and put charging points in their car park free to use. She goes into the office twice a week and books a charging point for 4 hours and so it is costing us nowt to run at the moment, unless we do over 280 miles in one trip….which is rare.

                Yes I have a very smug look on my face as I type this…☺️

                  DavecUK After about 8 years, I would be dubious of the remaining storage capacity of the batteries, they might well need changing by then

                      Nightrider_1uk After about 8 years, I would be dubious of the remaining storage capacity of the batteries, they might well need changing by then

                      Not at all, I have run electric cars for 10 years, my I3 was 6 years old and no battery degradation I could detect. The batteries in a wall unit should last 15 to 20 years and still have decent capacity. I would of course recommend erring on the side of 20% more capacity than you think you will need. e.g. if you think you need 8kW go for 9.6kW.

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                        DavecUK Is it worth getting a storage battery and inverter for those days when you are not charging your car might well have a 8 year payback and be something worth exploring?

                        Would love to have both solar and batteries but just do not have the capital to buy them.

                          App the fixed deals may be coming back. Quick let’s fix at £4k per year…

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                            Cuprajake App the fixed deals may be coming back. Quick let’s fix at £4k per year…

                            I’d be more interested in the prices fairly reflecting wholesale energy prices…after all they went up quick enough, funny how they drop much slower and never to where they were before.

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                              16 days later

                              powers that be are letting us have some breathing space, to save up for our winter bill, july will see prices comedown for a while….

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