It's been a whole year since we added 4.6kW of solar panels to our house. In that time we have generated just over 4MW of energy, returning 1MW to the grid and using or storing the rest ourselves.

Since March, with a hybrid car, we have charged it for 1.3MW and driven over 2000 miles on electric power. All clean or low carbon energy, and our energy bill are less than £100/month.

Home solar is amazing

I got these through the letterbox today. I won't be captioning the images as that would waste precious air.

Who the hell funds this nonsense!

Note - links cropped as they are bad for your health

Solar panel nerds, it's been a sunny day and I think I've reached the theoretical limit of it's generation with this setup.

What happens is that our battery gets full by 11am, and then we are capped on export at 3.6kW (as most are). If I can use it (see the one spike where I turn the dishwasher on) we can hit our actual capacity of 4.6kW.

Question is, what can I do to consume those extra ~5kW? More batteries? An EV? Something else?