Retrofit Case Reports
The experience of local people who have undertaken to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and reduce their carbon emissions. If you are willing to write your story in a few sentences please contact Mary Wyburn or Mike Green.
Project and Retrofit stories told
Project and Retrofit stories told
H
In 2019 I decided to do the best I could to make my home energy efficient. I should say that I was lucky enough to have the capital available to do it and that I considered it a better use of the money than to have it sitting in the bank. The company I used were incredibly helpful, they took care of all the negotiations with the utility company and all other paper work. They told me that my 1979 bungalow was the ideal property to install to. I had to cavity fill as this hadn't previously been done. All the radiators had to be changed for larger ones but they are not really any more intrusive. My system consists of 8KW solar panels, battery storage, air source pump and car charging point. The house is constantly comfortable. I haven't had to use my wood burner or any other supplementary heating despite the very cold weather. I invested a little over £30K. My energy bills used to be about £50 PCM gas, £50 PCM electric and £100 PCM fuel for the car. Now I have no gas bills and run the house and car for £61 PCM. I get £1,200 a year RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) payment for 7 years. I don't yet know what my feed in payments are as the energy company is way behind in administering this due to covid but, that aside I am extremely happy with the results.
In 2019 I decided to do the best I could to make my home energy efficient. I should say that I was lucky enough to have the capital available to do it and that I considered it a better use of the money than to have it sitting in the bank. The company I used were incredibly helpful, they took care of all the negotiations with the utility company and all other paper work. They told me that my 1979 bungalow was the ideal property to install to. I had to cavity fill as this hadn't previously been done. All the radiators had to be changed for larger ones but they are not really any more intrusive. My system consists of 8KW solar panels, battery storage, air source pump and car charging point. The house is constantly comfortable. I haven't had to use my wood burner or any other supplementary heating despite the very cold weather. I invested a little over £30K. My energy bills used to be about £50 PCM gas, £50 PCM electric and £100 PCM fuel for the car. Now I have no gas bills and run the house and car for £61 PCM. I get £1,200 a year RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) payment for 7 years. I don't yet know what my feed in payments are as the energy company is way behind in administering this due to covid but, that aside I am extremely happy with the results.
J
We had a small array of 8 panels installed on the garage which faces roughly south, in late 2011. The Declared Net Capacity (kW) was 1.61 kW. Over the last 9.5 years it has generated 10162kWhs. This is probably a bit less than the modern solar PV panels can deliver.
The array has more than paid for itself and for about 2 years has subsidised our energy bills as well as reducing our carbon footprint. Please note the array was installed just before the then Conservative coalition government drastically reduced the tariff.
We had a small array of 8 panels installed on the garage which faces roughly south, in late 2011. The Declared Net Capacity (kW) was 1.61 kW. Over the last 9.5 years it has generated 10162kWhs. This is probably a bit less than the modern solar PV panels can deliver.
The array has more than paid for itself and for about 2 years has subsidised our energy bills as well as reducing our carbon footprint. Please note the array was installed just before the then Conservative coalition government drastically reduced the tariff.