Making Your House Smarter… and Saving Money and Energy
A guest post on integrating a home battery with Home Assistant.
20% VAT scrapped for storage
The UK government has exempted retrofitted battery energy storage systems (BESS) from its 20% VAT, from 1 February 2024. From the Spring Statement in 2022, energy saving domestic equipment such as heat pumps and roof-mounted solar have been exempt from the VAT. BESS too were exempt, but only when installed alongside other energy-saving materials such
How Will The Equipment Be Delivered For My Solar And Battery Installation?
Be ready for when the solar kit turns up on your doorstep.
Don’t panic but… Brits should stock up on candles and battery-powered radios in case a power meltdown cripples digital gadgets, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden warns
Households should stock up on candles and battery-powered radios in case a catastrophe cripples digital gadgets, the deputy prime minister has warned. Oliver Dowden urged people to prepare for being thrown back to an 'analogue' era if internet and power systems collapse. Details will be set out in an official government 'resilience website' –
EV Batteries Are Perfect For Storing Solar Power
Time shifting is one of the keys to the solar power revolution. It allows renewable energy created during one part of the day to be stored in batteries for use during a different part of the day. Traditionally, those batteries have consisted of new battery cells — either NMC or LFP. But one company in
How Big a Home Battery Do I Need?
How Big a Battery? A question we often hear at Tanjent is ‘How Big a Home Battery Do I Need?' Or else 'What home battery storage size is right for my family?' Which IS a great question, just one that is not as straightforward as it would seem, to answer. Most of us have
How To Configure a MyEnergi Zappi or Other EV Charge Point With a Home Battery System
The issues and options for connecting a charger to solar.
Half of Europe’s family homes could be energy self-sufficient with solar and storage – report
Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Already today, 53 percent of about 41 million buildings included in the analysis could theoretically go off-grid and have a fully
How To Get Remote Control Access To Your Solis Inverter
Solis Inverter Settings If you have had a Solis inverter installed - either a hybrid solar inverter or an AC battery inverter - you will likely have found that you have to make most setting changes through the screen of the inverter. This is because the online interface for the inverter generally only shows
Top 5 Best Solar Batteries for Home Storage 2023
The pros and cons of different home battery storage systems.