Everyone's Buying Batteries But is Anyone Doing It Right?

So I think the, the, the biggest thing that we see is that from a homeowner's perspective, there's still a very big assumption that batteries are only for people who, who have solar PV.

Would you agree with that?

No, definitely not.

Uh, absolutely not, no. Um, I believe that the, a, a battery is the, the heartbeat of any home that's trying to electrify now, absolutely.

You can do lots of good things with batteries.

You don't necessarily need solar.

Um, it is a, a massive benefit if you do have solar, uh, by all means, but it's not a dead stick in terms of, "I don't...

I can't have solar," whether it's been because of a slate roof, because I'm in a conservation area, and other factors that you can't have solar.

So it's not a dead end.

You can, uh, push forward in your renewables journey and still have battery just on its own.

Uh, and we've implemented that a few times, um, with, uh, without solar in the past.

Uh, one client of ours, she was in a conservation area, and we, and she was already on the Octopus EV tariff.

She had 7p a kilowatt, so we charged her that 7p a kilowatt, then 20 kilowatts worth of battery, uh, and then just dispersed it during the day.

So absolutely have solar if you can have solar.

Uh, solar panels are getting a, a, a lot cheaper, but you've gotta weigh it up in terms of, um, return on investment.

You know, you've gotta take into consideration rigs, you know, if it's on different pitches and stuff like that.

So is, is solar the best return on investment? I do believe that battery straightaway does have that return on investment on day one.