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Unless the two bills are linked in some way, I would imagine any credit made on the Cork property would have to be spent on the Cork property. I maybe wrong. Worth checking.

Expand the home one. You've a fully electric house so more solar will help most there. What others here have done is move the irsmaller older solar to another roof or shed or sold it on. Fill as much as you can.

😂😂😂 it’s Biden he’s blocked it out for us.

I've seen that written often, it's a fairly popular view.

i guess there's another view that oh there's a grant for something so ill look at that.. even if we know it leads to inflated prices..

Grant certainly influenced me. 2.4k for solar and 600 for Zappi.

Do grants bump prices? I expect they do sadly. But would that have been 3k less expensive in the absence of a grant? I don't believe so.

Indeed. Would not giving the €600 grant to people who bought an EV to install a car charge point have stopped anyone buying an EV in the first place? Maybe just a handful who bought an older Leaf / Fluence as a second car. Less than 1% of buyers no doubt. And even those few could have granny charged. So another poor use of tax payers' money really, that didn't change any decision making

What is far smarter is something like increase the VRT on new diesel cars and use that to make the motor tax on EVs free. People are irrational and would be very tempted to buy an expensive EV, with the bragging rights of zero tax. And thus spending big money on VAT, which is good for the tax payers. Same thing happened after 2008 when people bought new diesels mostly for the chape tax

Is there any advantage in getting a hybrid inverter besides battery future proofing ?

Hardware/install question

Where does the inverter AC output go to?

Is it direct to my fuse box or to my meter?

Greatly appreciate if somebody could explain a little more on how that works, planning ahead for entry points to either, or both.

Super thanks!

The cable is armored 6sq mm 5 core, so gonna be a tight squeeze

Mine updated to that view this morning also.

I have noticed the “monthly generation” looks to be relatively accurate for April on that screen even though I have battery - wonder if this has been fixed or is it just because daily yield has been consistently greater than battery size

Hi All, have purchased a new house, it has a large south facing roof.

Will start the quote journey soon but wondering how many panels I could get on the roof? House is 220m2 for reference, I’m think of getting as many panels as possible and have a hybrid inverter so it’s battery ready. Or should I go for a standard inverter and add a storage inverter later when I’m ready for a battery? Assuming I have the roof space should I be aiming for 8kwp or even more? Will be clearing the trees to the south to let in more sun and see the view.

Sorry the bottom of the photo is south, which has two skylights, the north side has three dormers but not intending to put anything on that side.

The small east west split roof on the south is part of the kitchen. There’s one chimney just at the top of the ridge above this.

The ridge is 14m in length.

Is it ok to have one string of 390W panels and a second string consisting of higher wattage panels e.g. 450W inputting to a Solis Hybrid Inverter? Do you get maximum benefit from the 450W?