I couldn't really have imagined a few years ago that I'd be powering my house with a mix of solar and battery with the batteries charged overnight at cheap rates. And, I haven't visited a petrol station for a year.
Yes I too do the same, I've got Home Assistant talking to my Lux inverter and 18 kWh of Pylontech batteries, and using Solcast for solar forecasts I can automatically adjust the amount charged overnight off-peak with Octopus Go, and fill the rest of the storage with the day's solar. It's wonderfully integrated and advanced.
And my EV gets any surplus solar, but at 8p per kWh, it's so cheap to run it really doesn't matter, so I too never need to frequent a petrol station...!
Great stuff as always, thank you Robert. It's a shame that most of us reading these rants are probably all like minded - we need to get more naysayers to hear all these things. But as they say you can lead a horse to water but... we can only keep trying to get the message out there against all the fossil fuel lobbying disinformation
Great news and stories. Just for grins...my 1999 hybrid electric bus has been retired from service...those guys had Optima yellow top marine batteries, as that was the most economical power at the time...and just a lark of a thought, I called the Forney Transportation museum and suggested they try to get one...after all, those fabulous buses were designed and fabricated right there in Denver; ridden by millions of mall pedestrians. He asked if I had one to donate 🤔 which stopped me for a moment...but no I didn't manage to get one for myself. Fab elec cars; those moderate miles range is what I would spec as a performance feature 🤠
I couldn't really have imagined a few years ago that I'd be powering my house with a mix of solar and battery with the batteries charged overnight at cheap rates. And, I haven't visited a petrol station for a year.
It's great isn't it! Octopus were paying me about £25 a month during the summer!
Yes I too do the same, I've got Home Assistant talking to my Lux inverter and 18 kWh of Pylontech batteries, and using Solcast for solar forecasts I can automatically adjust the amount charged overnight off-peak with Octopus Go, and fill the rest of the storage with the day's solar. It's wonderfully integrated and advanced.
And my EV gets any surplus solar, but at 8p per kWh, it's so cheap to run it really doesn't matter, so I too never need to frequent a petrol station...!
Great stuff as always, thank you Robert. It's a shame that most of us reading these rants are probably all like minded - we need to get more naysayers to hear all these things. But as they say you can lead a horse to water but... we can only keep trying to get the message out there against all the fossil fuel lobbying disinformation
Great news and stories. Just for grins...my 1999 hybrid electric bus has been retired from service...those guys had Optima yellow top marine batteries, as that was the most economical power at the time...and just a lark of a thought, I called the Forney Transportation museum and suggested they try to get one...after all, those fabulous buses were designed and fabricated right there in Denver; ridden by millions of mall pedestrians. He asked if I had one to donate 🤔 which stopped me for a moment...but no I didn't manage to get one for myself. Fab elec cars; those moderate miles range is what I would spec as a performance feature 🤠
Cheers!