PV before the "deadline"

The panels arrived - Plan A was that they'd all be on the south facing roof. Plan B was to share them between the south and south-west facing roofs.

Plan B won.  I'm not sure I like the look of it so much and we'll loose a bit of light on the panels due to the trees in summer, but it means we got 13 panels on and I don't have to worry so much about the neighbour's hedge to the south.

We're signed up as generators with Good Energy and in the almost-2 months they've been up have generated about 98 kW hours.  Pretty much in line with the expected output.

Things should be looking up dramatically as the days lengthen and the sun climbs a little higher.

It was a bit last minute - the government brought forward the cut-off date for the generous feed in tariff from April to 12th December.

We were up and running and certified on the 8th thanks to Gavin and his team - who worked into the night to get us installed and generating for the deadline.

So here are some rather dark pictures of men at work.

Not forgetting that I still need to sort out the balcony rail!

..and then the solar industry took the government to court and won and now the government is appealing that decision so who knows where it will all end....

I'm planning the next post will show our energy usage for our first year.  And in the coming year it's just possible that we'll generate enough to meet all our needs.