Mine was £89.00 a month for gas and leccy last year, last DD was £171.00.
Maybe my solar panels are actually making a big difference to my bill after all
If any of you guys can afford solar panels, it’s definitely worth it, go for as many as you can possibly fit on your roof. Mine are 10 years old now and new combi boiler last year.
Do you have batteries for storage? We have solar panels but the power is sold direct to the grid, but even so our electric usage is only £10 more than yours. Are yours not on a feed in tariff?
Yeah I’m on the original F.I.T. (About 61p per unit of electric we export?) , no batteries as I didn’t think they were needed . I live in a 3 bed semi (4 people) , south facing garden, 3kw system . My hob & oven is electric though
We only moved into our house a year ago and the panels were already there. My understanding is that we don't use any of the electric we generate, but it all goes straight to EON. Is that the same with you? We're on the original tariff too.
Our last FIT payment was £440 so not too bad. I expect the next one to be a bit higher. I guess we get our electric for about nothing in the end. Hob and oven electric too as we've no gas in the village.
Yeah I’m with Eon too for the FIT, I think you do actually use some of the electric you generate and get paid for the excess that goes to the grid. On a very sunny day , my smart meter says currently using £0.00 , so it’s best to have your washing machine , oven etc on through the day instead of in the evening. My June payment was £573, my next payment as of today is around £564 (will be more by the time I take my reading) which will be paid in September. I usually get around £1500 a year back in feed in tariff payments.
When solar first came out , electricity meters were actually running backwards instead of stopping when the sun came out and caused loads of problems when giving meter readings, iv never took much notice of other peoples bills before but it’ll be interesting to see how ours compares to others over the next year.
