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@Brydo, thanks for your research and I think you’ve given me a project. I’ll be looking into it and giving Octopus a call, I suspect
Cheers
What size of home battery and solar array do you have Stuart? @Kezo maybe time to get a home battery? these events will happen more often once the upgrade of electricity cables from Scotland to England are completed passing all our cheap wind power down to you southerners, your welcome lol
We’ve got a 9.5kwh battery with 16 415w panels (8 on the east side of the roof and 8 on the west side)
Cheers, from down south!
Stuart I think you would be better off moving to Octopus. You could send all your solar back to the grid @15p per kWh. You would be able to fill your car and battery every night 365 days a year @7p per kWh. Changing to Octopus would cost the same for running your car, 7p per kWh, so no difference there. Your battery would be filled at night so you would be running your house all year day and night for 7p per kWh assuming your battery is big enough to run your house. If you know how much electricity you consume per year stick it on here along with your solar generation for the year and we can see what it would actually cost with each scenario 👍
There I was, bimbling along quite happily in my own little world and you’ve come along and thrown a spanner into the works! 😁 We’ll have had it for a year, this December, and I’ll have the total amount of usage then but…youve sown a seed!
Cheers
When I said the battery is charged via the solar, I meant the house battery is charged via the solar and not the car battery!
Stuart the solar payment is very tempting but can you tell me how long you get cheap electricity and when? Do you get 24hrs a day at 7p but not for the rest of the house, if so when do you charge your battery? I haven’t decided who to go to so open to other providers.
Brydo, the 7p per KW is 24/7 for the car only and the house is 21p per KW 24/7. There’s no cheap rate for the whole house, just the car. The battery is charged via the solar panels and this is our first summer but we’re producing enough to run the house during the day off of the solar, as well as top the battery up to 100% and export to the grid, and when the sun goes down the house is run off of the battery. Apart from charging the car at 7p, we’ve run the house from the solar this summer and earned money from OVO which we left in the account in order to try and cover the winter – we’ll see! 😏 What happens with the car charging is that you are charged the full amount for the electricity used and then given a rebate the following month once they’ve worked out the exact amount of electricity used to charge the car. It works fine. Kaluza are the company behind it.
Happy hunting 👍
I have old style gas and electric meters but intend to change soon as the best deals are available to those with smart meters. There are a number of different catagory of electricity user, namely those with :- i) Smart meters ii) Electric vehicles (split into high and low mileage drivers, full BEV and plug in hybrid) iii) Home batteries iv) Home batteries with solar v) Home batteries, solar with Air Source Heat Pumps (although not so many in this catagory lol) There may be other criteria but all of the above will influence the best tariff for you, so when looking for the best tariff/supplier to use, giving as much of the above info as possible will help in the info we can give. @Tharg its great to see you back on the Forum.
Hello there, I’ve only just joined the forum and I saw this thread.
I’ve had an Id3 for nearly 3 years that’s soon to be replaced by an ID4 (we needed a bigger boot) and I started out with OVO. Since then we’ve had solar and a 9.5kw GivEnergy LFP battery installed by OVO and we’re now using their Charge Anytime at 7p per KW with a standard rate at about 21p per KW. I don’t use the solar to charge the car because they pay us 20p for every KW we export and we had to have a smart meter fitted in order for them to differentiate the electricity going to the car and electricity being used by the house. You can make a case to use Octopus but we’re more than happy with OVO’s deal. To each their own.
Cheers
Tesla are opening up their charging network to everyone else, especially as they upgrade to their V4 chargepoints. The earlier chargers had really short cables and were not suitable for other EV’s. Currently 1/3 of their UK network is open to all EV’s, thats around 440 chargers at 42 locations.
That’s good and wasn’t aware of that. How do you know which ones are available for other EVs? Use any particular app?
Hello there, if you download the Tesla app it’s got a map showing where non Tesla’s can charge. To use them, you have to register a credit/debit card on the app and you’re good to go. Tesla charging is considerably cheaper than many.
