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Those of you with solar panels, what's been your experience? (feddit.uk)

submitted 3 days ago by blackn1ght@feddit.uk to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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I'm thinking of getting solar panels and a battery for our house.

What's your setup like, and is there anything you wish you'd set up differently if you were going to install it again? What supplier are you with?

A company extremely local to us is offering 12x Aiko Energy panels (465 watt), with a Sunsynk 5 kW inverter and a 5.32kWh battery. Octopus Energy are offering a similar set up for a similar price, but they're using 450 watt panels, so with using 12 panels I'd be potentially be losing 180 watts vs what the other company is offering. Is that a significant amount or would it basically not really amount to much additional power?

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[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It's a safety requirement. If the power company powers down a part of the grid for workers to safely perform work they don't want your solar to kick in and kill the worker.

If you want your battery or solar to power parts of the house when the grid is down you need islanding. That disconnects part of the house grid from the street grid keeping any workers safe.