New home Battery this looks great
Les
Les
Which translates as disappointingly expensive.if I’m right not that bad really.
Which I agree the if your like me and thinking of perhaps using the V2L capabilities of the Mg4 the ZS or the still to arrive MG5 uplift.Which translates as disappointingly expensive.
An MG4 SE SR comes in at £520/kWh or an SE LR at £467/kWh and they are mobile.....
More on LiBBi you need to watch it all the way through for the full stats.
Les
Depends how much of the price is the inverter, it may not be quite that expensive.I would hazard a guess of around £750-800 per KW so £11250- £12000 for a15KW set up plus the installation if I’m right not that bad really.
Les.
Home storage batteries are more expensive partly because they are designed for more charge/discharge cycles and heavier usage and partly because they are made in much lower volumes.Which translates as disappointingly expensive.
An MG4 SE SR comes in at £520/kWh or an SE LR at £467/kWh and they are mobile.....
If you know how much daytime electricity you normally use, excluding charging the car the following table will show how much you need to charge the car/move stuff in off peak to offset the increased day prices on the Go tariff. Whether you use the off peak during the off peak period or during the day from a battery topped up in off peak doesn't matter.I would consider the Libbi. I need to work out if 5kW would be enough to offset the increase in peak tariff from switching from current cap (34p/kWh) to Go (12p & 42p/kWh). It should be but need to factor in what I can time shift to off-peak too.
Hi Paul nice to hear from you again I well remember your energy set up at your home in Thailand from your posted videos in the past and when I was on the podcast with you a little while ago and no question it is fantastic.I am curious why battery prices are so expensive in the UK.
This is my setup:
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3x 5kW inverters and 4x 9kWh of storage
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9 KWH Solar Energy Household Battery Storage - nRuiT
Powerporter 9kwh is a solar energy storage battery. As a household battery storage, energy storage battery can meet the daily needs of family life.www.nruitpower.com
Cost me ฿68,000 £1,546 for each 9kWh LFP battery (CATL cells) imported from China to Thailand.
Growatt SPG 5000 ES 5kW inverters cost me ฿36,000 £818 each imported from China to Thailand
36kWh of batteries £6,184
15kW of inverters £2,454
Installation £500 (obviously going to be much cheaper here)
Total = £9,138
Along with 20kW of PV powers the house and charges my EV 99% off-grid
Has anyone considered importing from China?
@Les burrows from the spreadsheet I did above, you can see a bit of a rule of thumb in that if you can use approx 25% of your weekly usage in the off peak period, then that is the break even point.Gomev
Very interesting your chart above, I have solar as you may know, and now we can have the wife’s MG4 which as vehicle to load, and I intend try to shift some of our usage to the 50 odd KWs in the car battery, it rated to give up to 2.5 KWs without issue so got us a v2l cable and with a little bit of work setting up we can run some of the things around here from the car sometimes may be a bit of a FaF at first but could be well worth the effort, that’s when it still the MG4 long enough for us to plug into it, so I going to see how we get on with that first before I think about home batteries.
My son as solar and a Tesla Powerwall and was saying the other week that he was not to sure that the Octopus Go is worth the high daytime and standing charges now and thing about going back to a SVR instead.
It’s like everything else nothing last forever couple of weeks back Octopus raised there prices then next week Tesco are to stop the free charging while your shopping I wonder what’s next but the one other thing we all need to remember is this so called price cap is only for around 5 months now so bearing that in mind I’m just going to wait before I do anything else.
Les