What do you think is the roi on the install?
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I would say the electric solar panels are a waste of money when it comes to heating electric offset in winter, with hardly any sunlight in winter but in summer they do cut our electric bills for everything else by at least 50% plus we get the Feed in Tarrif rebates around up to £400 per year on average. Probably estimate 8-10years to break even.
The stoves, electric hybrid heaters plus energy efficient lighting have saved us a fortune, when we first moved in 2010 the previous owners were paying circa £700 per month for electric and oil heating during Dec to March. (We thought the solicitors made a mistake until we saw statement copies for utility bills)…
Outlay and fitting of the stoves, radiators, cylinder, electric heaters cost circa £4500 total. So would say have paid for themselves in 3 to 4 years max.
I just finished cutting up some of the seasoned trees for logs at the weekend, grown on our land… so wood for the stoves is free this winter, plus doing my bit to carbon offset the V8s and Flat-12 cars
Have to agree... would not buy a house with panels fixed on the roof, new or old.You’d not get permission to fit solar panels on/near a listed building. Which is a good thing, as they are ghastly looking things. Even if you could, the chance of real ROI is dubious at best.
No gas where I live either, so LPG and log burners for heat. Cutting up just one (very) large ash tree (that fell from ash die back disease) has provided sufficient logs for about 5 years, at a cost of just a few hundred Pounds to chop up and stack.
Tesla already has a solution for that, solar roof tiles. More and more innovative solutions will present themselves over time, but I guess some will always resist changeYou’d not get permission to fit solar panels on/near a listed building. Which is a good thing, as they are ghastly looking things. Even if you could, the chance of real ROI is dubious at best.
No gas where I live either, so LPG and log burners for heat. Cutting up just one (very) large ash tree (that fell from ash die back disease) has provided sufficient logs for about 5 years, at a cost of just a few hundred Pounds to chop up and stack.
You could probably just stick with MP to be fair.
For an American company the tile choice is actually not bad at all, one looks quite like slate. Looks like the way to go, not sure about pricing vs ugly panels (I’ll give you that) though.Not resistant to change at all, but the ugly as sin systems here in the UK would ruin our 400 year old house... is Tesla going to make one's that look like stone/clay?
Is it back to gallons already?? I bet the engineers are going to be really happy about the reintroduction of ancient measures
They do look good and when fitted as a complete foofing system blend in perfectly.For an American company the tile choice is actually not bad at all, one looks quite like slate. Looks like the way to go, not sure about pricing vs ugly panels (I’ll give you that) though.
they have some images here: https://www.tesla.com/solarroof
Massively fooked. I know someone with 4 bed, 3 storey with 2 electric boilers and hot water cylinder. Electric bill is mahoosive even of economy10. Granted it is an old house but is terraced. We had Rointe electric radiators when we moved in and spent £800 in 3 months Jan to Mar and we minimised use as the meter was spinning out of control.
In basic terms as others will know more, but each of those tanks is 3kwh. So to heat water to 60 from 20 degrees you are looking at each of these running about 1.5hrs. So 3kw x 1.5 x cost of energy x 2 tanks. Then it depends on how much water you use and how often you have them on.This is the system that is fitted . It feeds water radiators and is a new build house. I think the place was supposed to have solar but the planning got turned down . How massively fooked are we ?
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