Brilliant news!

[mossman@social.vivaldi.net]

@Edent this could be the start of something big. As someone renting a house with a large garden and paved area against a south-west facing wall, this is very interesting...

[oneinterestingfact@mastodon.ie]

@Edent

If I'm reading this correctly this allows consumers to feed solar into the grid. Do they get paid for doing it or is it just a case of if the sun's shining you might want to put your washing on?

[greem@cyberplace.social]

@Edent It is good news but I can't help feeling that we're all about to be scalped in terms of pricing.

I hope not, but big retail in the UK has a nasty habit of artificial scarcity and price bumps.

[sean@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent

"The portable, plug-in solar panels can be placed in gardens or on walls and balconies"

Especially interesting since the price of a solar panels is competitive with the price of fence panels

[unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz]

@Edent

Oooooh! I was wondering whether that could happen at some point!

[edent@mastodon.social]

@OneInterestingFact
Yes. If you have an export tariff you'll get paid for every kWh you pass back to the grid.

[oneinterestingfact@mastodon.ie]

@Edent I look forward to the govt's publicity making that clear.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@greem
You don't have to buy from a "big" retailer.
Plenty of manufacturers sell direct.

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent excellent news if it turns out they don't screw it up.

but.

"plug it into your mains"? really? how does that work?

edit: even if it does work — how would i know it was doing anything?

edit^2: the relevant search term here is "G98". i'm still very confused what the hell this is, but it is a thing, in some areas.

[sinvega@mas.to]

@greem @Edent lidl specifically were very slow to raise prices when eg tesco jacked theirs up 40% overnight (and then again a few months later). Not that I think they're saints, but they seem to get that people plain don't have money.

Hopefully that means we'll start seeing them show up in lidl's aisle of shite

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@Edent That's great. We could do with plug-in battery packs too.

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@Edent I *love* this. These ultra low-friction options are absolutely key to popular adoption in the early stages.

[walrus@toot.wales]

@OneInterestingFact @Edent

I look forward to the government ever making anything clear.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@Walrus What did your MP and Senedd member say when you complained to them about this?

[walrus@toot.wales]

@Edent

Oh, come on. I don't have to make sense when I take cheap shots, do I?

[po3mah@mastodon.social]

@sheddi @Edent OMG this things are cheaper every day. When I bough it 3 yrs ago, it was 700€ for 800Wp WITHOUT a battery, now you get it with 2kWh battery for the same price...

[ra@mstdn.social]

@Edent in case anyone missed it, here's a primer on the potential of solar.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

Watch or listen to the end.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@Walrus Kinda, yeah.
I used to work for the UK Government. We spent a lot of time and energy publishing things as clearly as possible.

Then some cleverdick would complain that we hadn't done a good enough job when, in reality, they just hadn't bothered looking.

I think that press release is pretty clearly written. If you genuinely don't then, yes, you should write to your representatives and complain. That's the only way feedback gets heard.

[revk@toot.me.uk]

@Walrus @Edent Aren't the issues with unlimited / random feed back in to grid related to the infrastructure to handle it.

I may be wrong, but I assumed the hassle to get the limit on what we can feed in to to technical, not political.

If it is purely political, then hell yeh. Feed in that sunshine, and battery,

[edent@mastodon.social]

@revk
Yeah, the DNO can object if you're planning to put dozens of panels up and they think the grid can't handle it.

But balcony solar is likely to only be a couple of panels per household. Results from Germany are encouraging (albeit a different grid to ours).