Best payback to suit my needs. 3 evances??

In a bid to reduce electric bills i have been weighing up the options to match our power use and get the best payback. after going through a few pv sales talks i can't get anything better than 3 evance 5kw with the big advantage i can direct 2 into the farm and one to the house and won't have to pay upgrades to three phase which i'm told is not high at 12k but doesn't appeal to me. my neighbour has had one for 18 months and has done about 16200kw in the first 12 months. Larger one (50kw) is out as i have neighbours within 400 meters. if i use all the electric through one of the managment systems i can get payback in under 5 years. pv is nearly 8 plus 3 phase upgrade.

Interested in your thoughts thanks.
 

fraggle

Member
Location
DL7
We got 20 kw of solar on single phase, by my sums should payback in 7 yrs, would have rather had a turbine, but our planning authority one of worst on country for getting them passed. Not totally given up on a turbine if we can get planning and a grid upgrade, been approached by several firms wanting to rent a site for turbine.
 
The council here seemed really positive especially as it's on a farm scale. we are just looking to be self sufficient in power and not export huge amounts. I am amazed that we can fit the three turbines, two to the farm and one to our house and use emma or a immersun to utalise all the electric but they do not meter it and assume you send half of it back to the grid and pay you 4.64p/kw. cake and eat it springs to mind. I think we could see payback in less than 5 years.
 

renewablejohn

Member
Location
lancs
Definitely postcode lottery for turbine planning permission. Around use we have 4 x 10 kw and 2 x 20kw yet 2 miles down the road in a different authority 12 x 2.5 MW and 5 miles other direction 26 x 2.5 MW. Looking to put up 2 x 250kw turbines myself but waiting for the outcome of a 500kw appeal. Rather ironic my council refused 2 x 2.5MW back in 2006 yet adjoining council allowed 12 x 2.5MW less tha 1000 yards from original refusal.
 

jumbojimbo

Member
Location
cornwall
we want to put in a 50kw and 12 kw pannels to cover our electric usage (two sites) Heard back they will only let us put 12kw and 4 kw because the grid cant take any more unless we pay about 500k to upgrade it. still thikning to go ahead with original plan just have to find a back up to get rid of electicity if our own uses dropped or failed. Someone suggested we may just be able to send surplus power to an earth in a emergency is this correct. (Sorry this is all new to us so may sound a bit ignorant to thouse who understand it all)
 

jumbojimbo

Member
Location
cornwall
We will dump excess power it into water heaters and building ice. you could have a lot of spare power if it was blowing a hooley with a 50kw!! No idea about dumping it but sounds dangerous!!
sorry its solar pv pannels we will be instaling we sould use all the power as we run some large fridge units as well but this is just a back up
 

mikelaluz

Member
Location
Cheshire
Hi Jumbojimbo

Unfortunately the DNO will not accept your proposition that a) you will use all generation or b) you will dump the excess.

However there is a product being developed and trialled with several DNO's that will in effect do what you are suggesting. If it gets approval it will open up PV to many more farmers who are unable proceed due to restrictive upgrade costs.

I will keep the forum updated on any developments
 

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