Lataxe
Member
This sub-forum seems very quiet; and a reading of some post in it seems to indicate that the topics are largely about solar power. I wonder if any members here would be interested in discussing some of the wider topics of not just energy production and use but other factors such as (to give some random examples of many possible examples): the impact of tyres and brake pads on the environment; managing a fully-electric household; balancing electricity production and consumption; rationalising personal travel profiles; using V2H; etc..
Before 2019 we lived in a house that used gas, had fairly primitive insulation and two ICE cars. After a move to West Wales from NW England, we now live in a recently built very well-insulated house with one vertical bore ground source heat pump, two air-source heat pumps (mostly for cooling) 11 kw of solar panels and one Leaf car. Everything is run with electricity. We produce more than we consume over the year (although we have to use the grid in winter, exporting excess solar back to the grid in summer). A feed-in tariff inherited with the house means that we pay nothing for electricity consumption and in fact end up around +£1000 a year, as well as a saving of around £3000 by using our own solar rather than the grid most of the time.
Icing on the cake is a once-per-hour local bus service between Aberystwyth and Carmarthen that goes past our door. It's free to we pensioners and is a full e-bus!
Before 2019 we lived in a house that used gas, had fairly primitive insulation and two ICE cars. After a move to West Wales from NW England, we now live in a recently built very well-insulated house with one vertical bore ground source heat pump, two air-source heat pumps (mostly for cooling) 11 kw of solar panels and one Leaf car. Everything is run with electricity. We produce more than we consume over the year (although we have to use the grid in winter, exporting excess solar back to the grid in summer). A feed-in tariff inherited with the house means that we pay nothing for electricity consumption and in fact end up around +£1000 a year, as well as a saving of around £3000 by using our own solar rather than the grid most of the time.
Icing on the cake is a once-per-hour local bus service between Aberystwyth and Carmarthen that goes past our door. It's free to we pensioners and is a full e-bus!