When i write a good review gets posted if i leave a negative review if something doesn't work is rubbish get a email from Amazon saying can't post your review strange

Bought one on New Year's Day and elected to do the subscription route as I can amend or cancel at any time. As you've now got 3 and presuming you're trying different brews, have you got a favourite? Given that Mad Squirrel is now over £6.00 a pint, and that's from their tap room, i think this system has to make sense. Also are all the beers cloudy or have you had some bright ones? I don't mind a cloudy beer, but also like a bright pint of Bass. Happy New Year, and happy brewing!

Hi, we ve just come back from caribbean marella voyager cruise and didn t have any of these problems, i think they might have improved their services. They put a ticket if someone doesn t use the sunbed more than 45 mins, i was very happy with this. Also we always carried a collapsable water bottle and fill it up on the ship, they had filtered water on almost every deck. Thank you for sharing your thoughts to us.

thank you

All paid for by us, until the gravy train came to an end . What suckers we were to finance this opulence.

waste of money

I had the privilege of accompanying the Brittania into Victoria Harbour a good many years ago. The queen saw our larch familiy all crammed onto a remarkably small sail boat, caught Prince Philip's attention and pointed down at us all cheering madly, and waved back. Such a beautiful ship.

Thank you so much. I was totally baffled.

I bet this was the cleanest vessel afloat.

That looks like a front loader machine. 😕

Nice video. Ate at the witchery about 10 years ago, so was interesting to be reminded of it. Just one bit of feedback - I do think directly filming other people’s tables is a bit uncomfortable. Assuming you didn’t speak to them first, you don’t know why they’re there or if they’re happy to be filmed.

I had lunch in St Ives a few months ago, the price just for me was nearly £200, worth every penny, and I did go for gold, but I declined the 12% service charge as I probably spent more than a table of 6, I just found it insulting.

Thank you 👍🏽

Trivial , trouble is everyone wants to be of first no patience these days ,

Can’t see too fast

I forgot to mention in the video that we use underfloor electric heating much more now then we did before, so the actual savings are probably much higher.

Fiat 500 2016 sport change time

Charging at 7p overnight and only pulling peak power 2-3 days a year, no brainer

The UK is not Australia - UK solar places no stress on the grid.

Nice setup, Can i ask roughly what sort of daily yield you have had in dec from panels. Just setup a 5kw array with Solax inverter but getting barely 1 or 2kw a day with current weather and just want to know if thats weather related or maybe i have a problem. Also any views on Fogstar 15kw batteries as they seem quite cheap at moment. Many thanks.

Let's start a stupid rumour so we can get clicks and comments. We'll you baited me into clicking and commenting. You're an expert! A master! You are a master baiter

I've had PV 9 years , makes a great saving as I was paying 10p a kWh back then. Now the 3270 average kWh a year is a lot of money. 2 years ago was even more saving at peak prices.

If only there was a groups of people warning about this year's ago. That there is a problem with peak production vs peak demand. And that it was not sustainable.

If I had solar panels, and I there where an export tarif, I would be installing warmt under my driveway to keep it clear of snow and make sure all the small birds woulden't freeze 🙂

It's getting to the point people who buy new homes will have to export their energy to the grid. Now EVs are becoming ever more prevalent there's a real issue with the electrical generators can not meet demand. Kinda catch 22 now.

well done for posting this; i'm astonished/bemused/disappointed at the lack of 'forward-information' from the energy suppliers regarding the future of 'the grid' and what needs to (or, rather, will) be done for the UK energy supply. The level of education amongst the general populace ('consumer') in this area is shockingly (sorry) low. Obviously peak-solar time photovoltaic generation is going to be priced to zero fairly soon; the UK has very little storage capacity - with little possibility of significantly increasing such - hence the rapidly growing rooftop/industrial/farmland generation capacity will soon result in overcapacity. Time-of-use/generation pricing will be the only power flow management tool being used in a decade or so, so why domestic batteries aren't being 'pushed' more is a mystery - if every uk home had just 5kWh of storage on a smart-managed grid, the resulting ~100 GWh would probably (?) do teatime (and the christmas turkeys) ok...

Having gone down this route I say Battery first every time - its you access to store energy from the grid overnight, normally about 17p per unit. This can keep most homes going through the day, especially between 4-7pm, the expensive time. Solar panels are a great boost in the summer and allow you to build up an excess £ to supplement your winter payments. Battery’s first guys!

Don't forget, you'll never have a power cut again👌👌

Can’t really see this happening in the UK, I think octopus with their dynamic tariffs will be more useful for creating big loads during peak production. Personally I’ve covered my roof in solar and it’s very rare that I export to the grid. In the winter we charge the batteries up on the night tariff and the solar supliments it during the day. In the summer only a handful of occasions did the car get fully charged and we exported. With the drive for more electrification (heat pumps / evs / home batteries) there’s going to be increased electrical demand and less need to export.

I want to be completely of grid

The feed in tariff had a government backed guaranteed payment for 20 years, which lasts until 2035 in my case. As such, I doubt if it can be changed without legal challenge etc. Does the same apply to the SEG scheme?

UK falls way short of the sun intensity of Australia or even Spain, plus the uptake of domestic solar is also way down compared to down under, where there is a much higher concentration of solar installs... So, I don't see this becoming a serious threat to charge to export, more likely the generous 15p or 16.5p (Eon) SEG, being lowered to say 10p perhaps, once they are able to reduce the large spikes/drops in the grid. Once the grid is in better shape & more importantly managed better in terms of generation/demand, the SEG may fall to 10p, but hopefully off-peak charging could also fall to 5p ??? This might reduce the actual revenue for exporting, but if you export 1kWh excess, you can still charge/purchase 2kWh off-peak, maintaining a 2:1 ration charging home batteries/EV like you do today Finally, if they do eventually bring in a charge to export (wouldn't put nothing past the present government), then OK charge homeowners to export at midday - but what about commercial wind & solar farms ??? Should they also be charged to export when there is surplus generation - after all, the consumers are funding all the kick-backs/subsidies they receive... I mean, fair's fare & all that - yeah but I won't hold my breath on that one & if these large wind/solar farms also get charged to export at peak surplus times, well I guess these charges will simply be added to the subsidies they receive - so again the consumers will help fund it (again) One thing I do know, the "energy experts" in charge, will make announcements/changes, implement them poorly & everybody will be impacted & foot the bill/more subsidies/increased standing charges etc... (Why change the recent format of ever increasing standing charges each quarter) Renewable energy in the UK is just too unpredictable though: Wind "can" generate 60% of UK energy one day, but next day struggle to hit 20% Solar, a 5kW system could generate 5x+ or 25kW on a long perfect summers day 16hours but in dark short winter days, that 5kW array, might only generate 1kW all day on a thick grey day for 8 hours (First week in November was very poor for solar generation) Plus, when you look at the National Grid various data showing all forms of generation, Solar provides only a modest amount of generation in relation to the national demand for 9 out 12 months of the year For the most part it is Wind & Gas battling it out for 60% & 20% (sometimes Wind = 60% + Gas 20%, others it's Gas 60% + Wind 20% Then Nuclear+Biomass then interconnections/import from Europe) What amazes me, is that at times we can still find ourselves importing 20% from other countries ??? So yeah, the National Grid is still in need of a major upgrade & seriously needs to be managed/operated way more efficiently Plus we are way way short of having any sort of excess like parts of Australia has with solar If they ever get close to managing the grid better, then perhaps they could shut down Drax, the green biofuel station that creates more CO2 than some of the last coal stations they closed, rather than consider charging homeowners to export

Ultimately, it's the government's choice - they can either capitalize on Virtual Power Plants, or they can take on the entire cost of the renewables themselves. There's a balance to be struck - and mistakes will be made along the way.

I'd argue that people should install a battery ahead of PV. The GivEnergy All In One I have is superb. Since installing it in August it has saved me over £200.

My EV can easily mop up any surplus. I currently export at 15p/Kwh, if it drops too much then I will charge the car, or heat my water, or storage heaters etc

Batteries are the way to go, I would split off a load of my house circuits to be off grid and that would be powered by my battery system, could always use a power gateway in the winter if needed to fill my batteries from the grid, good to recycle old EV car batteries, you will not get money off me, I paid for the tech

Should you Install a Solar Battery in your home PV System? No (typically).

Too much, too little, too late. There are so many options for self-consumption of electricity that few people need to export to the grid. Options are: oversize tank-type electric water heater, space heat or air conditioning during the day, possibly EV charging and definitely, batteries for evening and backup power. As far as the electric providers wanting the system to be fair, if you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

This won't happen. They will introduce other mechanisms. It's political suicide

Tariff is everything if you can buy at 7p and sell at 15p you need a home batter to cover your daily use 10 to 15kWh if you don't have electric heating.

It can be even worse. The wholesale price of electricity in GB currently averages around 7 p/kWh, but domestic customers pay a lot more than that. The price they pay includes a lot of money going to pay for the distribution system, and a number of levies to pay for this and that. And the average wholesale price at solar generation times, is lower still, as the demand peak is usually in the evening. So merely having rooftop solar and using the electricity means you reduce your contributions to the distribution system. But you still need that distribution system as much as anyone else when you don't have your own electricity, or much of it, like now in midwinter, even if (like me) you have batteries. In Spain, where there is a lot of roof-top solar, the electricity distributors proposed charging people merely to consume their own solar power, let alone export it, so that they did not avoid that contribution to the distribution system. Btw, if you are getting 10p/kWh for your solar exports that's actually generous. It's more than the wholesale price, which is arguably the most anyone deserves. I feel like a thief, because I'm getting 15p, and that's a currently available offer, not a legacy FIT. But if domestic customers got only the wholesale price, and still had to pay the full distribution system costs like other people, they'd never build it.

I would guess a very small battery will be best for most people, and the opimal size would need to be calculated. I would go for a battery that returns my money in 3,5 years.

Like many on IO I charge the battery at 7p/unit overnight and then export surplus during the day at 15p/unit. Cheaper to export surplus solar and charge ev at night, years ago I used to use solar to charge the car,but not worth it now. Everyone has a different use case, so do your own calcs.

Fantastic. Thank you 😊

can you bottle it after brewing

It's been all about the timing for me. Couldn't afford it when i was younger but not leaving it too late when I'm older. Installed in May 24 and it's like having another hobby in retirement. Prices are coming down, no VAT to pay, cheap / free leccy, helping the environment. My advice would be research, research, plan. Select your installer very carefully. No regrets here.

I've been a PV/battery/EC charger installer since 2009 and I have seen companies come and go (I'm still here BTW LOL) At the moment it really is a great time to invest in Solar PV/batteries but you need to find the right company to engage with, try and find one that has been in business a long time served because that will really make a difference, these long standing companies will know the pitfalls of the past and the solutions, the fly by night companies are only there to make as much money as possible in the shortest time and then disappear. Do your Homework and research the best gear and customer service with manufacturers is so important. I use Tesla/Fronius because of the above the products are amazing.

I bought a 2 seater convertible car.I know it will make me happier then some solar panels.

Something to mention is the importance of is keeping them clean for efficiency and the cost that incurs if you aren't planning to do it yourself.

If it works for you then great. It still depends on the individual though, if a person is in their 70 - 80's (like me) I don't think it's worth it. £8000 in the bank earning interest and also available to use is more usefull to myself, remember that your £8K capital is on the roof and not useable. I'm glad you mentioned trying to choose a reputable solar businesses, as with other companies these days they have a tendancy to go tits up!