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  • 2020 solar production

    by Mars 31 December 2020
    by Mars 31 December 2020

    Our 6.16kW solar PV array is just under two years old, and it was a strange year for our solar production.

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  • Feed-in-Tariff payments and changing electricity provider

    by Mars 10 December 2020
    by Mars 10 December 2020

    We have received a few emails and messages recently about the Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) and what people should do when changing electricity providers. Here’s our advice based on our own experience.

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  • Smashed our all-time solar PV production record

    by Mars 31 May 2020
    by Mars 31 May 2020

    In what has been the hottest and driest May in over a century in the UK, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we’ve had a bumper solar month, smashing…

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  • Solar PV April record

    by Mars 5 May 2020
    by Mars 5 May 2020

    April was a ridiculously sunny and pleasant month. We had a lot of blue sky with very little cloud cover, and this reflected in our solar PV production leading to…

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  • One year solar PV array anniversary

    by Mars 8 April 2020
    by Mars 8 April 2020

    Our solar panels have now been up for just over a year, and for all the doubters and naysayers that said solar panels are ineffective in the UK, this is…

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  • Do solar PV panels work in the UK? An honest, objective assessment

    by Mars 10 March 2020
    by Mars 10 March 2020

    We installed our solar system in March 2019. We questioned whether solar PV panels work in the UK, but made the decision to proceed because we thought they would, and…

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  • Autumn Solar PV Array Review

    by Mars 13 December 2019
    by Mars 13 December 2019

    Our 6.16kW solar PV array was tried and tested during the spring and summer. With autumn behind us, it’s time to see how well our array has done with shorter days and the sun lower in the sky.

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  • Snow, blue skies and our central heating

    by Mars 12 November 2019
    by Mars 12 November 2019

    We had our first snow of the winter followed by a day of brilliant blue skies – both were icy cold. The juxtaposition of these days has, however, created a clear picture of the effectiveness of our air source heat pump central heating.

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  • 5 MWh milestone hit on our solar PV array

    by Mars 10 November 2019
    by Mars 10 November 2019

    We hit a milestone on our solar PV system today by producing 5 MWh of electricity since March. This means we’ve saved pumping 1,275kg (almost 1.3 tonnes) of CO2 into the atmosphere.

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  • Off the grid: UK Solar PV and inverter review

    by Mars 1 August 2019
    by Mars 1 August 2019

    It’s been four months since our panels went up, and it’s a fitting time to review their performance and do a solar PV and inverter review of our system. We get technical and specific about the efficiency of our new solar panels.

    Being in the UK, people are sometimes skeptical about the effectiveness and performance of solar energy, so we wanted to give an unbiased report, based on real life experiences, illustrating power output on overcast, rainy and sunny days.

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