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100A fuse upgrade: meter to consumer unit?
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<blockquote data-quote="pedg" data-source="post: 500557" data-attributes="member: 33044"><p>You can. One of the reason I went for the model I did is someone has written an automated program to do that for you. Even if you can't buy at zero, if the lowest if 5p say, the average outside the peak period is 9 and the peak is 20. If you load the battery up (if needed) at 5p and discharge during the 20p peak you are going to be paying about 8p per kwh average for the day. Add that saving into that for the stored solar and its pays off a lot quicker. After a while the capacity of the batteries will drop but my thought there is that at that point I can probably get hold of a similarly used battery for a few hundred quid, add that in parallel with 3 I have and get back to close to the original capacity. The other point for us is that the variable tariff is good for charging an EV so that throws in some more savings and the battery means we don't have think too much about what electricity we are using on what in the peak period.</p><p></p><p>On the subject of the original question I have managed to arrange for a local spark to come and visit next week so I think I will mark the first suggestion to just get a spark in as the answer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pedg, post: 500557, member: 33044"] You can. One of the reason I went for the model I did is someone has written an automated program to do that for you. Even if you can't buy at zero, if the lowest if 5p say, the average outside the peak period is 9 and the peak is 20. If you load the battery up (if needed) at 5p and discharge during the 20p peak you are going to be paying about 8p per kwh average for the day. Add that saving into that for the stored solar and its pays off a lot quicker. After a while the capacity of the batteries will drop but my thought there is that at that point I can probably get hold of a similarly used battery for a few hundred quid, add that in parallel with 3 I have and get back to close to the original capacity. The other point for us is that the variable tariff is good for charging an EV so that throws in some more savings and the battery means we don't have think too much about what electricity we are using on what in the peak period. On the subject of the original question I have managed to arrange for a local spark to come and visit next week so I think I will mark the first suggestion to just get a spark in as the answer. [/QUOTE]
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