Originally Posted by
Matt8500
You have obviously made your mind up, but my actual experience of a real system differs. As I said it depends on where you are, your roof orientation, the kit you buy and your use.
As one example we have generated 707kwh from 18 panels, since the 7th Jan, in pretty gloomy weather, at the worst time of year. Our dual fuel bill for Feb was -40 quid, when before we were paying an average 400, and that was a bad month for generation and we burnt a fair amount of gas. This was through using power at cheap tariffs and the system managing when to push power to the grid versus charging, as well as straight generation. The next 7 ish months will be much better.
I am not an evangelist for solar, and solar is not for everyone, but a blanket ‘it is all a rip off’ is demonstrably not true.