… let the financial pain begin.
We decided to go ahead with solar panels. The deal is just too good to miss and with our shocking electricity bills we really need all the help that we can get. The scaffolding is up and the panels go in on Wednesday.
The current deal is good, 43p in for every kilowatt you produce and you get to use it yourselves rather than buying that same kilowatt from the grid (at about 18p if memory serves me right). So that’s a pretty good deal in itself. You don’t get a great deal (3p/kW) for selling unused energy back to the grid, but our house is so inefficient that it’s probably an irrelevance for us. The power company assumes that we use half of what we’ve produced and that will probably also work in our favour but I can’t for the life of me remember why at the moment.
We’re pleased to have got it organised before the tariff changes not only because the current deal is great, but because the new deal will also require that our house meets certain green criteria that are only a distant dream for us… insulation, double glazing, all those DIY words that are somewhere off on the horizon.
Financially it’s going to cripple us in the short term, but we hope it’ll all be worth while.
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