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Yes, main house gable shades the 1/3rd closest the road till early afternoon

I have only started to look into solar recently. I see a lot on here about SunSynk/Deye.

Are there many installers installing these, particularly in the Limerick/Munster area? I've searched but can't find much. I'd like a beginner-friendly setup initially but want something that can be integrated with home assistant/automation eventually when I get time.

Any suggestions/thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks

I didn't and the moss died off under them.

Oh, good point.

I was always advised that a roof should always be soft washed, never power-washed. But that is for another day's research.

microgeneration export only. So if you export 500 euros worth. You'd be taxed on 100 euros.
You can additional names to bill thus increasing your allowance. so two people allowance is 800 euro

Who ever you add has to be willing to accept full responsibility of the bill, that was the only criteria we had with Energia - wife had to speak to agent and confirm she would be responsible if I failed to pay.
Pretty sure there are other users here with husband/wife and 2-3 adult kids living at home all named on bill to get large export allowance.

They probably should have taped the membrane, especially given that the hole is dead-on-center of the rafter spacing where water might route. But they should also have at least clipped the cables onto the rafter and not leave them hanging as they did.

Hi all. Fairly new to this, have read a lot of this thread, and I know it's a bit of a hot topic, but could anybody chime in on the pros of getting a battery in our scenario?

East/west split and have been looking at systems between 5-8kwh. Quite low annual usage at around 3.5kwh in a new-ish build with an A2W heat pump; not eligible for grant. No EV atm, but might transition at some point so want to make sure we're "future proofing".

I understand the basic tradeoffs of installing a battery (with upfront cost being the main con), but I'm unsure how to do the calculations to estimate usage & gains with vs without. Any help appreciated; TIA.

Still learning here too.

What I found a huge help was using ChatGPT or Gemini. Tell it what you're planning or thinking of doing, your useage, your tariff, everything. It'll do all the calculations for ya.
What even more helpful for the AI is using this website. https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/#PVP
You'll have to run the calculations twice, once for each side of the roof. But run the first, copy the table into a Word document or something, then do the same with the second. Paste both results into the AI, and it'll give you a more accurate calculation.

Don't forget, if you do get a battery, you can charge it very cheaply every night, and whatever you have left over come the end of the day, you can force discharge it again for extra export before charging it cheaply again.