Question for Solar Charging Guru's

[Sparkeur]

if thats about 22,000 kwh annual generation, at 3m/kwh that'd be 66,000 miles p/a, or 106,000 km?

or enough to drive 15000 miles a year (5000kwh), run an average sized house (3000kwh), and heat the home, cool the home and heat your hot water (another 3000kwh maybe).

And the same for your neighbour

According to EDF, last year I used 12.200Kw for the year to run the house and the car at a cost of 2400euros.

 

[Dilly]

Bearing in mind we do less miles and heating is oil, our electric last year was, in round figures:

solar 8600 kWh
off peak grid 1900 kWh
peak grid 70kWh
export 1300 kWh
cost £245

 

[Sparkeur]

Bearing in mind we do less miles and heating is oil, our electric last year was, in round figures:

solar 8600 kWh
off peak grid 1900 kWh
peak grid 70kWh
export 1300 kWh
cost £245

Our heating is oil and wood so that's another 1500€ for us. Interesting figures though.

 

[Dilly]

Our heating is oil and wood so that's another 1500€ for us. Interesting figures though.

That’s about the same for me.
I can’t avoid export in summer or grid draw in winter

 

[SageBrush]

How far is the run from your garage to your service panel ?
I found a Recc to keep voltage drop on the AC side to below 1% which is not much -- about 36 feet presuming #12 AWG Cu and 16 A

 

[Mrklaw]

According to EDF, last year I used 12.200Kw for the year to run the house and the car at a cost of 2400euros.

then if you maxed your solar and added some battery, and maybe in future moved your heating to electric (AC or similar) the solar should cover all of it..

 

[WannabeOwner]

Assuming house is averaging 2kW (which is a lot ... but I'm around that) I make that : 2kW x 24 hours x 365 days = 17,520 kWh p.a. ... you'll need to use your own actual consumption for house (minus EV charging) ...

... but would that be any sort of incentive for adding house (overcoming the difficult of dealing with ex-Double Glazing Salesmen / installers ...)?