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Those of you with solar panels, what's been your experience? (feddit.uk)

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I'm thinking of getting solar panels and a battery for our house.

What's your setup like, and is there anything you wish you'd set up differently if you were going to install it again? What supplier are you with?

A company extremely local to us is offering 12x Aiko Energy panels (465 watt), with a Sunsynk 5 kW inverter and a 5.32kWh battery. Octopus Energy are offering a similar set up for a similar price, but they're using 450 watt panels, so with using 12 panels I'd be potentially be losing 180 watts vs what the other company is offering. Is that a significant amount or would it basically not really amount to much additional power?

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[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I forgot to add that I’m with Octopus Energy. Their Octopus Go plan offers great rate overnight and is not too bad during the day at lest in our area. Their free energy sessions have also been in active use: battery charge, EV charge, immersion heater and sauna stove being on simultaneously does put the house electrical system to a test!

My aim is to use as much of the solar energy I produce myself, so I’m not bothered about exporting energy.