Brilliant news!

[kevin@fedi.kevinisageek.org]

@Edent sadly I don't have any place to put solar but good news nonetheless

[discontinuity@infosec.exchange]

@Edent this is such great news! Thanks for sharing.

[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.