Self Sufficiency Light And Heat

[LaraCroft 863]

 

 

 

My neighbour has 20 on his roof, he says it is about cost even for the electric - he ( him, wife, 2 teenage kids, 1 only at home at weekends) says it covers the electric the house needs, and he doesn't worry about selling back. We have a well here, that supplies the 4 houses - so we don't pay water bills. He reckons he saves well over £3k a year on utilities from it, and the installation costs were paid back in the first 2 years.

so how does that work, from what i can gather all the electricity produced goes back into the system and you get a payment that offsets your own usage?

Thats what he said - they bill him for what he uses, and for what they get from the panels, and the 2 bills pretty much cancel each other out, so his net payment is between £20 and -£20 each quarter , and he just lets it roll over each time, it usually cancels itself out over the year. His other lad goes to uni this september, so he is expecting it to change a bit then, but on the whole, it balances. He is with " ecotricity" - excuse spelling, I asked him on the phone just now !

i think im going to go down the treadmill and slaves route

I think slaves are the forward. I am not seeing you on a treadmill - not even with a roll up behind each ear !

[paulus 26]

 

 

 

 

My neighbour has 20 on his roof, he says it is about cost even for the electric - he ( him, wife, 2 teenage kids, 1 only at home at weekends) says it covers the electric the house needs, and he doesn't worry about selling back. We have a well here, that supplies the 4 houses - so we don't pay water bills. He reckons he saves well over £3k a year on utilities from it, and the installation costs were paid back in the first 2 years.

so how does that work, from what i can gather all the electricity produced goes back into the system and you get a payment that offsets your own usage?

Thats what he said - they bill him for what he uses, and for what they get from the panels, and the 2 bills pretty much cancel each other out, so his net payment is between £20 and -£20 each quarter , and he just lets it roll over each time, it usually cancels itself out over the year. His other lad goes to uni this september, so he is expecting it to change a bit then, but on the whole, it balances. He is with " ecotricity" - excuse spelling, I asked him on the phone just now !

i think im going to go down the treadmill and slaves route

I think slaves are the forward. I am not seeing you on a treadmill - not even with a roll up behind each ear !

with a zippo dangling like a carrot at the end of the treadmill :laugh:

[LaraCroft 863]

 

 

 

 

 

My neighbour has 20 on his roof, he says it is about cost even for the electric - he ( him, wife, 2 teenage kids, 1 only at home at weekends) says it covers the electric the house needs, and he doesn't worry about selling back. We have a well here, that supplies the 4 houses - so we don't pay water bills. He reckons he saves well over £3k a year on utilities from it, and the installation costs were paid back in the first 2 years.

so how does that work, from what i can gather all the electricity produced goes back into the system and you get a payment that offsets your own usage?

Thats what he said - they bill him for what he uses, and for what they get from the panels, and the 2 bills pretty much cancel each other out, so his net payment is between £20 and -£20 each quarter , and he just lets it roll over each time, it usually cancels itself out over the year. His other lad goes to uni this september, so he is expecting it to change a bit then, but on the whole, it balances. He is with " ecotricity" - excuse spelling, I asked him on the phone just now !

i think im going to go down the treadmill and slaves route

I think slaves are the forward. I am not seeing you on a treadmill - not even with a roll up behind each ear !

with a zippo dangling like a carrot at the end of the treadmill :laugh:

You read my mind !

[smithie 2,443]

get in to the dog walking business.. tredmills and other peoples mutts... you get cash of the lecky company and paid to run the dogs within an inch of there lives

[04fox8 168]

Had a company a while back in too look at a possible turbine set up. Was hoping for a big one and to rent it out instead of buying. The guy reckoned where I'm situated I won't get much wind, aye right!!!! Its a windy place where I am and if Scottish woodlands would hurry up and clear fell what they say there going to clear fell ill be the windiest f*****g place in fife.... Lol

 

Always pleanty of wind down in Fife!

[dewi 187]

Water is the answer i built a turbine shed for a farmer a few years ago cost him approx 20k to set it all up paid for itself in 2 yrs,and now makes him on average 10k a year ,and he is talking about upgrading his setup to increase the profit..

[The one 8,457]

One of my farmers has the tiles on a luxury cottage he rents out reckons it was to supply most of the power to the big hot tub out in the garden ,but he now has a wind turbine up the hill from his farm , i reckon hes looking to power the big farm house and the cottage from it but he would never talk of the cost