Domestic Solar PV Quotes 2022 - No PM requests - See Mod note post #1

Much better value out there, keep looking. Put that quote in to this calculator http://davidhunt.ie/solar/

Check some of these out https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058243236/solar-pv-boards-members-installer-information#latest There are more out there doing good value as well.

Potential changes from a NC7 application would be in the private property or anything on ESB side?

I have a brand new house, fuse board with capacity for up to 80A, I don't think I would need anything if I go for a 10kw inverter, right?

Single phase.

A couple of other estates nearby with those houses that have 3x or 4x panels to meet BEER ratings. As this is a new area I think it should have a well planned ESB infrastructure, but who knows...

I'm still evaluating the worthiness of going ~10kw total output via an uncertain NC7 or stay humble on ~6kw with NC6.

I love the idea of people sitting in their faux A rated new homes while their heatpumps devour €€ and kwh at multiples of the cost of the gas used to generate it (near 80% heat loss from gas turbine generation to the doorstep, and our daytime energy is still over 90% fossil). Meantime the measly 4 panels on the roof produce SFA energy in the grey winter afternoon, and the modestly insulated house has an A rating because of the roof ornaments, a pretend sealed air ventilation system, and a few internal door springs. My sons A rated house is burning gas as fast as his previous 80s rental, over €220 a month, though the rate is now only 14c/kw. I had to fabricate rockwool tubes to fill the massive 6" open wall vents in all the rooms to restrict the gale that whistled through the house everytime you opened an internal door, with their constant spring loaded banging shut. Virtually every owner has defeated these anyway as the noise and impracticality of the springs makes living a nightmare. Children literally can't move through the house without assistance. When I replaced his cheap mechanical wall stats with smart ones, the draught whistled in through the mounting plate hole in the wall plasterboard. I shudder to think what a Heatpump would gorge at peak rates when you actually need a bit of heat. What Green fantasist dreamed up this latest wool over the eyes conjob. The entire estate are freezing. A rated my A**e. At least they were spared heatpumps. Gas is clean, burn it in the home at 97% efficiency, round the clock same price. Preserve me from eco charlatans and their faked figures. BEER rating is right, it was always cheaper to stay warm by going to the pub.

I'm at 280kwh/month all year round, heating/hw is oil and woodstove winter, oil in summer. Even with the stove I'd burn 240 litres a month in deep winter, that's 8l/day or around 80kwh of heat daily, which is light enough in a biggish bungalow, and there's almost none consumed between 10pm and 8am except on the coldest nights, as the residual house temperature of 21° maintains to about 17-18° overnight. All internal walls being concrete acts like a heat storage sink. The point being if I replaced oil with a heatpump, all my heating would be daytime, flat rate of 42c/kwh. Even if the heatpump Perla Polite Soapsuds or trebled the output, I'd be looking at 14-21c/kwh, compared to the oil at 8c at the moment, and during freezing weather when you'd use 40% more, the heatpump is unlikely to produce only the smallest cop factor.

Daytime rates are extortionate at the moment, and make no sense when you see rates well below 20c/kwh elsewhere in Europe. You're doing well to get away with 20kwh/day in winter by whatever multiplier your heaypump manages. 20kwh alone would barely heat two room of an average house for 10 hours, so I'd assume you're well insulated, sealed and draught resistant, which is critical to prevent a heatpump emptying your bank account.

Do not fit a heatpump in an older house, especially a rural single story detached. Spend the €20k on insulation, double glazing, sealed ventilation, even if you only get some of those half done, you'll have some savings to go to the next stage. Solar direct to HW for the brightest months should make sense, and did when you could mount a pair of thermal solar panels plumbed to your HW cylinder for a grand, but that day is gone, and it's hard to even find someone doing thermal anymore.

Not sure if you got my previous comment. I said average 300Kwh/month, not €300.00/month during Spring/Summer. 🙂

House with 3 adults + 1 kid, everyone taking 2 showers/day and 2x of us WFH.

Other things to consider:

• There is a ventilation system that runs 24/7 consuming ~200mA constantly;
• The heat pump, for some reason which I still didn't figure out, consumes ~500mA when idle. Yes, you read it right, when just sitting there producing zero heating,
• I have also a surveillance system running 24/7

Get in touch with ESBN by phone or email networkservicesbureau@esb.ie or esbnetworks@esb.ie and make sure they received your NC6 form, if they have it there should be no delay on the FIT payment afaik.

I would follow up with ESB again to confirm that your application has indeed been received.

The installer did not submit the NC6 form 20 working days in advance of the install (which they are obliged to do). Technically you shouldn’t have the inverter hooked up to the grid until the 5th June if the NC6 was only submitted on the 8th May.

I would advise people here to get their installers to CC them on all communication to ESB networks; if doing it via email. Or get the installer to fill out the form and then post it yourself via registered post. Seems too common for installers to “forget” to send them.

@con747 I assume everyone has read the documents; no? Shocking!! 😱

Page 13: https://www.esbnetworks.ie/docs/default-source/publications/conditions-governing-the-connection-and-operation-of-micro-generation-policy.pdf?sfvrsn=fdcb2515_17

Above document is listed in step one in this page: https://www.esbnetworks.ie/new-connections/generator-connections-group/micro-generators-

The process is:

1. Send NC6.
2. Wait 20 working days.
3. If no correspondence received from ESBN proceed with install.

If you want to query it I’d say contact ESBN and they will clarify it for you.

Not trying to argue just trying to clarify your statement that you need to give ESBN 20 days notice before installation by submitting the NC6. I can't see that anywhere on the links. Lets just leave it and not derail the thread.