Anomnomnomaly BSC SSC<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/SolarUpdate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarUpdate</span></a> A quickie today... because we finally did it. We exported enough electric to cover a full months worth of electric, gas and all other charges & VAT.</p><p>Just barely though... We cancelled out the whole bill and earned an extra £1.63 that's added to the credit on the account.</p><p>We continue to pay £100 a month and our bills for the next 4-5 months should all be well under £100 (the avg for June-Aug last year was around £30) and unless we have a sustained period of inclement weather, should see that credit increase to at least £900.</p><p>I know we could get that refunded back to my account, but it's a nice cushion to have, and means we don't have to increase the monthly payments to cover the much higher bills we get over the winter period. Typically, the Nov-Feb bills are around 80% of our total gas & electric import due to using the heating a lot (it's turned of May-Sept) and far less sunlight for generation.</p><p>If I refunded it, my monthly payments would probably increase to £150 or more and that would actually put a bit of stress on the monthly budget after all of the other price rises we had in April. Energy prices went up 6%, we had a 10% rise in council tax and a 30% rise in the water bill. With food prices continuing to be higher our monthly avg of £300 for groceries and household supplies is now £325. So the monthly basic budget is £100 higher than it was in March... that's an extra £1200 a year already... throwing another £600 on top of that just so we can have a little extra money to spend now... doesn't make any sense at all.</p><p>As of yesterday, we'd hit 650kwh of solar generation, 3 days left in the month and nearly 60kwh of generation being predicted.</p><p>The previous record was in May 2023 when we did 668kwh and exported 260kwh (worth £39), so far this month we've exported 272kwh (£40.80).</p><p>I'm crossing my fingers the solar forecast is accurate and we hit that 700kwh mark for the first time... and that we finally have a good summer. So far we've had a decent May and most of June the last few years and then from the last week of June onwards it gets wet and windy.</p><p>So far this year, we have imported 635kwh of electric for the whole house. We've used 2034kwh on the house (avg 405/month). That's 1400kwh of 'free' electric we've used directly... on top of that, we've exported 497kwh of electric and earned an extra £74 back. So in a few days short of 5 months this year, we've already saved £378 + earned £74 back for a total of around £452.</p><p>We've not even reached the summer months yet.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solar</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Battery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Battery</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/GoingGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoingGreen</span></a></p>