Solar power at last!

I have been a bit busy over Christmas and New Year but now I have heaps to write about.

Just a couple of weeks before Christmas we finally got our solar panels on !!!! Hooray all 14 of them. They are all hooked up and now our metre is running backwards on most days so already they are paying for themselves. Prior to putting them up, the metre had been running forward, often at a rate of notts and the metre had read 31884kWh but now as you can see in reads 31394kWh. Very cool when you're the bill payer in the house hold.

We needed a seperate isolator to be installed as the one inside the house is all full up.

The large grey box on the left is the inverter which according to Wikipedia:is a type of electrical inverter that is made to change the direct current (DC) electricity from a  photovoltaic array into alternating current (ACfor use with home appliances and possibly a utility grid. ) Thank you very much Wikipedia.

This is how much energy we had made today at 3.30

Writing again

I haven't written anything for ages as I have been working during the week. It means my time at home is much more precious. But also means i may save up for a holiday and will get to pay off some bills.

During this time my partner Graham has been organizing some solar panels for our roof. So after much research and talking to different companies and suppliers over the last few months we have finally commissioned some to be installed in the coming months, just in time for summer.

To be honest I don't know a lot about the technicalities of how they work etc, but our house has a large amount of roof space facing north, (which is like your south if your in the norther hemisphere) so it gets direct sunlight for most of the day during the summer and on sunny days in winter too.


What we dont use will go back onto the grid and be credited to us. Its a 2.6kilowatt system which has 14 panels. We should all going well be able to use them for all our power. So what we save on power bills , once we have paid off the solar panels will be able to go into the house.


When we have it installed i'll take some photos and put them up. This is what the front of the house looks like at the moment:

but soon it will be adorned with some beautiful solar bling! If you would like to leave comments just scroll down and click on the little envelope and then leave a comment!Thanks for reading!