{"id":2324,"date":"2015-02-15T10:47:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T10:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2015-02-15T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T10:48:26","slug":"money-from-the-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=2324","title":{"rendered":"Money from the sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not very scientific yet (I will produce accurate figures over the year) but since fitting solar panels to my house 4 weeks ago, I have generated about 100 kWh. Again,\u00a0I will be more accurate later, but I estimate I have used about half of this in the house and sold half of it back to the grid.<\/p>\n<p>I get something like 4p a unit when\u00a0I sell, so a mere \u00a32 wil be my earnings for the month (4p x 50kWh) &#8211; or about \u00a324 per year! However,\u00a0I saved something like \u00a37\u00a0(14p x 50 kWh) &#8211; or about \u00a384 per year. A grand total of \u00a3108!<\/p>\n<p>This is about the same as\u00a0I would have got as interest on the cost of the panels &#8211; so near enough break even&#8230; But of course all this is in the middle of winter, roll on the summer sunshine!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/panels-and-snow.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2309\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2309\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=2309\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/panels-and-snow.jpg?fit=800%2C600\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 1200D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1391032743&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;79&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Panels and snow\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;PV panels (a 4kW array) fitted in February (the snow being the clue)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/panels-and-snow.jpg?fit=800%2C600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2309\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/panels-and-snow.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Panels and snow\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/panels-and-snow.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/panels-and-snow.jpg?resize=200%2C150 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/panels-and-snow.jpg?resize=150%2C113 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/panels-and-snow.jpg?w=800 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not very scientific yet (I will produce accurate figures over the year) but since fitting solar panels to my house 4 weeks ago, I have generated about 100 kWh. Again,\u00a0I will be more accurate later, but I estimate I have used about half of this in the house and sold half of it back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79TdE-Bu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2432,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=2432","url_meta":{"origin":2324,"position":0},"title":"ICE, PHEV or Pure-EV","author":"Tom Denton","date":"August 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(Internal Combustion Engine, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (like my GTE!) or a pure Electric only Vehicle) I have been playing around with a few figures relating to the overall costs of running these three\u00a0different vehicles and trying to compare them - it is a difficult task! 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