Salsa!

The one they dropped years ago?

Get a larger battery.

By far the lion share if the savings come from internal usage. Export payments are 20% of so of electricity costs, so you want to be using what you generated.

I have a 5.4kW array, and a 8.8kWh battery. 15% of the battery has to be reserved, so actual capacity is lower.

We basically live off grid for 6-7 months, but winter production is so low (aprox 20% of summer ) that it’s hard to even fill up the battery.

But a larger battery would help for those spring and autumn months when some days are good, some are bad.

For reference, comercial installation have a 4:1 ratio of battery capacity to production. In my case that would be 20kWh! Or 5 days of average consumption.

One final thing to say is that our battery system is capped to 3kW. So even when full, if we ask more electricity than that at any point we would be importing.

What this means is that going gas free is harder, as some appliances (hob, kettle) consume a lot.

No bonus for GBE CEO, but dividend payments are still allowed as well as share buy back.

That will teach them nothing. At the very least the water should be not for profits. Much better would be to nationalize them: a public monopoly is much preferred over a private one, as at least they are accountable to the pubic and are meant to work on their behalf.