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Seems a lot of people I've spoken to either have too much expectation of what their roof can produce or look at the equation in respect of how soon they get their money back. You don't buy a car to pay for itself, you buy it for the convenience etc. I'm viewing this in the same way, if it saves...

I guess it depends on the number of panels you have. Mine will be slightly larger than the standard 12 panel system but not as large as 11 Kw which I take as the maximum size without any upgrades on the grid side.

Murdoch, No, the guy is suggesting buying a cylinder to be run by the solar, I'm guessing you mean an electric circuit to run the immersion heater if it needed topping up? It wouldn't be hard to run a feed from the Consumer unit while we are at it.

Hi Dave. Not sure what you mean? Are you saying because of battery I shouldn't go for hot water? I think the installer was suggesting both. Mick

Hi all. The I smaller I'm talking to about fitting a PV system with batteries has mentioned using excess power to provide hot water via an unvented cylinder with immersion heater. I've read a couple of threads here that touch on this but not in detail. My central heating is a combi boiler...

Hello there to everyone on the site. I'm a retired mechanical engineer with only limited electrical knowledge. I'm looking into solar power and possibly wind turbine which is something I can build. Hoping to learn about storage etc.