12-10-2023, 04:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-10-2023, 04:11 PM by Andy Bennett.)
and my two penneth. If you go PV then get a battery. In the days of high feed-in tarif it didn't matter because you sold to the grid for more than you bought back so they were in effect your battery. Now it is the other way around, you sell the excess generated on a sunny afternoon to them for a pittance and buy it back a few hours later when you want to cook an evening meal and the sun has gone in, for 10 times the price they gave you. If you store it then you have that trickle back into your house overnight. In the summer we didn't use a single watt from the grid but only because we had our own storage.
And I have a friend who has one of these super insulated homes with ground source heat pump. They go into a panic when you visit and leave the front door open for more than 10 seconds and they keep all the windows shut tight, as the house only works as a sealed unit. A perfect sterile 22 degrees.
I sleep with windows open all year round. I need to hear the world and feel the cool breeze of a chilly winter's night in the bedroom and hear the birds singing on a Spring morning. A sealed house is not for me.
And I have a friend who has one of these super insulated homes with ground source heat pump. They go into a panic when you visit and leave the front door open for more than 10 seconds and they keep all the windows shut tight, as the house only works as a sealed unit. A perfect sterile 22 degrees.
I sleep with windows open all year round. I need to hear the world and feel the cool breeze of a chilly winter's night in the bedroom and hear the birds singing on a Spring morning. A sealed house is not for me.
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think!