Compared to winter, it barely runs in the summer months, but sounds like you live in a colder place than Danmark?
Ha, I know you’re an authentic Dane by how you spelled Denmark! I live in Estonia, slightly colder, but not the coldest. I haven’t yet gotten around to installing an air-to-water or ground source pump yet, so mine only heats the home, not the water (meaning I spend a whole lot of electricity on my regular boiler year round). It’s been running 24/7 since October currently, more or less. I could just go heat my furnace right now and turn off the pump, but that’s extra work + firewood costs money too. Long term goal is to replace the furnace completely, with a ground-source heat pump with vertical collectors since my garden isn’t big enough for horizontal.
There’s still money to be made (saved), by buying during the cheapest hours and using it during the expensive hours.
Definitely same here, but I have a fixed price package and in the winter, the lows barely ever get to the level I pay year-round. This makes more sense for me since I use much less electricity (barely any) in the summer compared to the winter.
However, as I said previously, I discovered that it’s now possible to keep the fixed price for my electricity purchasing. If I got a couple of panels, they’d more than cover my electricity use in the summer and I wouldn’t have to worry about the price - and in the winter, I’d still be paying less than everyone on a variable rate plan like I do now. If I could also install some small turbines on the roof, that could actually halve my power bills in the winter too.
Only trouble is, I bought cheap roofing materials knowing I won’t have any use for solar panels anytime soon, and it won’t support the weight lol. Oh well. I saved like a thousand or two thousand euros compared to more expensive roofing materials at least.
Ha, I know you’re an authentic Dane by how you spelled Denmark! I live in Estonia, slightly colder, but not the coldest. I haven’t yet gotten around to installing an air-to-water or ground source pump yet, so mine only heats the home, not the water (meaning I spend a whole lot of electricity on my regular boiler year round). It’s been running 24/7 since October currently, more or less. I could just go heat my furnace right now and turn off the pump, but that’s extra work + firewood costs money too. Long term goal is to replace the furnace completely, with a ground-source heat pump with vertical collectors since my garden isn’t big enough for horizontal.
Definitely same here, but I have a fixed price package and in the winter, the lows barely ever get to the level I pay year-round. This makes more sense for me since I use much less electricity (barely any) in the summer compared to the winter.
However, as I said previously, I discovered that it’s now possible to keep the fixed price for my electricity purchasing. If I got a couple of panels, they’d more than cover my electricity use in the summer and I wouldn’t have to worry about the price - and in the winter, I’d still be paying less than everyone on a variable rate plan like I do now. If I could also install some small turbines on the roof, that could actually halve my power bills in the winter too.
Only trouble is, I bought cheap roofing materials knowing I won’t have any use for solar panels anytime soon, and it won’t support the weight lol. Oh well. I saved like a thousand or two thousand euros compared to more expensive roofing materials at least.