Octopus Energy Opens Up Solar For All Electricians
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Күн бұрынThe installation of solar panels is opened up to all electrical contractors this week after a landmark decision by Octopus Energy that it will no longer require MCS certification…
…a power surge causes house fires and blackouts in Kent…
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00:00 Electrical Industry News - Monday 14th August
00:37 Octopus Energy now accept uncertified solar installs
02:21 Electrician Plus concept unveiled
02:50 Doncaster Cables unveil new solar PV cable
03:31 Dramatic power surge in Kent
03:55 Competition for EV chargers is high as the holiday season peaks
04:53 National Grid erects newly designed T-pylons
05:22 Meet eFIXX at the EI Live show in September
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@marceloness 9 ай бұрын
I’m MCS and I’m very happy that this useless scheme got this most deserved punch!
@craigharvey17 9 ай бұрын
Having seen some of the garbage and downright dangerous installations by mcs certified contractors, this is a good move for genuine electricians out there. Good move from Octopus 👏
@robkd3327 9 ай бұрын
but they have paperwork
@robkd3327 9 ай бұрын
🤣
@mikejoseph425 9 ай бұрын
I am so glad MCS have got their come up pence . I chose a local NIC contractor do carry out my installation, the deal being they got some first had experience and I got a cost price. I contacted MCS and they very arrogantly stated that even though the contractor had applied to MCS FOR CERTIFICATION, my installation could not be backdated so I am as pleased as punch. WHAT GOES ROUND COMES ROUND My installation does not widely overproduce and Octopus only pay 4p so it is not a financial issue, it was the arrogance of power In my view this had to happen if we are to be more green❤❤❤❤❤
@G4GUO 9 ай бұрын
I am on Agile Outgoing Octopus and get about 10 p a unit on average, I chose the variable rate.
@mikejoseph425 9 ай бұрын
@@G4GUO I looked at the figures and arrived at Intelligent Octopus I will use around 8,500Kw p.a. On-Peak. Solar will provide app 4,000Kw and Battery discharge app 4,000Kw leaving maybe 500Kw to export @ 4p = £20 p.a. I will use a further 4,000Kw off-peak making 12;500Kw 0.75p = total cost £937 + £150 standing charge = annual cost £1,086 I reckon without Solar and batteries £3,127 and when on peak was 41p £3,457 Total installation cost £17,000 So the export, 4p or 15p is not significant
@mickbitchum4664 9 ай бұрын
95% of solar PV installations I come across don't comply with BS7671 so MCS doesn't prove a quality installation. I constantly come across installations where sub boards don't have any glands, AC -Type RCDs installed and just general bad woksmanship. Glad MCS will no longer hold the monopoly on renewable technologies....just NIC EIC and Napit to get rid of now!
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
Cracking news about the MCS monopoly being broken up. I'm part of a DIY solar group which has been getting trained sparks to fit the wiring, then doing the mounts and panels installs ourselves (with the sparks coming back to wire them up). Mostly we're offsetting power use but it's great to hear we might get paid for feed-in too.
@andydavies8232 9 ай бұрын
Does your solar group have a website? Sounds interesting.
@AndyBaxter-mc8kz 9 ай бұрын
How would a self or DIY installs comply with Building regulations? MCS installers are automatically permitted to self certify under the competent persons scheme.
@craigchamberlain 9 ай бұрын
@@AndyBaxter-mc8kznot all parts of the UK require building control to get involved in domestic electrics.And even if they do, you can still do the work yourself and then pay a building inspector to sign off the work.
@stephensimper8196 9 ай бұрын
I'd love details of the Solar DIY group. I'm a qualified spark, and I want to sort my own solar out, otherwise it's to expensive.
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
@@andydavies8232 Sadly not, we're just a little informal group of friends who hang out in a Whatsapp group and share notes and ideas.
@billyoung2458 9 ай бұрын
I had an install done by an ‘mcs approved installer’. No ac isolator, cables not clipped on the roof or loft. Generally poor looking installation. I complained with photos to MCS. They were totally disinterested and did nothing. No wonder their CEO is angry, he has lost his cash cow. The sooner mcs is disbanded, the better.
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
Sounds familiar, a relative bought a new house and had loads of snagging issues. Builder couldn't care less, so he went to NHBC, and got a similar response to the one you got from MCS. Seems like some of these schemes are just for marketing, and they hope you find that out after they have your money and not before...
@Dog-whisperer7494 9 ай бұрын
Staycation and labradoodle. Great news weekly as always Joe 👍
@youbencowell 9 ай бұрын
Completely right about staycation!
@efixx 9 ай бұрын
I know right?! 😂
@raymolony 9 ай бұрын
@@efixx From Cambridge Dictionary: staycation noun [ C ] informal UK /ˌsteɪˈkeɪʃən/ US Add to word list a holiday that someone spends in their own country or at home, rather than travelling somewhere else:
@james123j1 9 ай бұрын
MCS made sense as a public body when the technology was not well understood but it is now just a layer of price inflation. When we had solar fitted (by an MCS company) we had an issue. Whilst waiting for the company to resolve the issue I contacted MCS to check my options. MCS told me they did not cover the nuances of my installation so it was completely worthless. My installer resolved the issue without incident but had they failed I would have been left nowhere, having been given an illusion of safety by the MCS certification.
@cannymoose 9 ай бұрын
Mcs has done nothing to bring errant companies to task with hundreds complaining to it over one specific installer that they do nothing about.
@DTech101 9 ай бұрын
Oh no the Boys club is being shaken up, it’s about time! Oh no MCS are throwing there toys out of the Pram 😂
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
I'm part of a DIY solar group and we said similar! We've all been getting electricians to put the wiring in and fitting the panels ourselves to a paper copy of the Regs we share amongst ourselves. It's great to see the MCS monopoly being broken up a bit. Gives us some more incentive to put more panels up!
@markyd2633 9 ай бұрын
Hope you Supply fire extinguishers too
@DTech101 9 ай бұрын
@@markyd2633 lol you act like all MCS approved installers install it to the letter or to a good standard. What you said is a similar thing the MCS installer told me when I said I wanted 400watt solar panels he said they would burn down my roof, guess who didn’t get the job 😂 ! PS a course is a course you can pass it today it depends what you do tomorrow.
@stevejacklin8462 9 ай бұрын
Good news about the MCS certification might get some descent installations now.
@johnward5006 9 ай бұрын
Positive and major step forward! I would just suggest PV providers could offer BPEC or similar installer courses, which must be the way forward!
@efixx 9 ай бұрын
Sounds like a good idea!
@VinoVeritas_ 9 ай бұрын
The courses are rubbish and are just used as a tick box exercise.
@andyhodchild8 9 ай бұрын
Better to go on manufacturers training for kit that you use, mounting, inverters and batteries than all this bloated long winded mandatory training. I learned more from the online training from NICEIC in 10 x 45 minutes online sessions than the 2 or 3 day bloated courses.
@TheWebstaff 9 ай бұрын
I learnt more from KZfaq in a shorter time than any training course.
@edc1569 9 ай бұрын
When I sell my house will someone complain if the PV system is not MCS certified. MCS is a cartel, so always good to see a cartel fall. There's a lot of terribly installed heat-pumps, i'm not aware of MCS ever intervening to either delist the company that installed them or assisting the consumer in a resolution.
@tomcardale5596 9 ай бұрын
NICEIC and NAPIT are just as much of a cartel. There are an awful lot of dodgy installs out there (solar or otherwise) done by assured competent people.
@chrisroyle4813 9 ай бұрын
You could always offer to disconnect and/or remove the PV as part of the sale.
@solarrover9575 9 ай бұрын
Having been an MCS certified pv installer since 2011, I can can confirm that MCS is just an exercise in paperwork and nothing to do with a proper quality installation. But what octopus have done shouldnt actually change anything because you need MCS to connect to the grid. The SEG is just a small bonus.
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
I think you might be mixing up MCS and G98. You need G98 certification for the inverter to get signoff from the DNO but that's a piece of paper you can get from the inverter manufacturer and check online. Just pass that to the DNO and ask for connection permission. For up to 3.6kW - for a sample size of our solar DIY group - they'll usually just say yes.
@solarrover9575 9 ай бұрын
@@electrickery ena form b connection under g98 asks for asks for installers accreditation number.
@efixx 9 ай бұрын
Checkout the full interview with Griff - Octopus Energy Unplugs MCS Certification for Solar Panel Installations kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLmKm6qpqrnRj40.html
@solarrover9575 9 ай бұрын
@@electrickery having looked at that video below looks like we could just put our NICEIC AC reg down rather than MCS on the form. Bye bye MCS you certainly enjoyed your run (£) while it lasted.
@russellhutson1603 9 ай бұрын
Hmm, as an MCS installer you should know that MCS is NOT required by DNOs to make a connection. An example of the ineffectiveness of MCS training, monitoring and policing of installers.
@user-kf1ew1nv1n 9 ай бұрын
I installed solar for years without MCS accreditation. The customers received a great deal and even more, a quality installation. The ties that come with MCS makes it harder to concentrate on quality installations when I’m up to my eyes in paperwork that no one will ever look at again. MCS does not separate out the cowboys anymore unfortunately.
@electrician247 9 ай бұрын
MCS can't really complain considering they tried to pull the rug from under HIES and RECC 1st.
@powerflowenergy1895 6 ай бұрын
Great move Octopus, having been in the industry for 20 years, and seen the birth of the MCS and registered with them for more than 10 years, then subsequently charge installers and manufactures vast amounts to deliver services and products that they say will 'Make the industry safer' and 'protect the consumer from the cowboys', from which they provide zero enforcement, why are they actually here?. All this does is make it easier for installers of what ever back ground to implement renewables, which at the end of the day is what we need, less red tape and more action to decentralise our energy infrastructure,, well done again Octopus.
@acelectricalsecurity 9 ай бұрын
About time, MCs was just red tape, if you are a qualified electrician, part p registered there's no need for that rubbish, it's long over due, well done to octopus 👍
@BlackBeltBarrister 9 ай бұрын
Oh, that's great news, thank you for the video!
@eddiereed5025 9 ай бұрын
The reason electricians (and other trades) dont get these accreditations is the cost and ongoing cost of certification many electricians have far more experience of installations and regulations than certified installers as they have the in depth knowledge of electrical services. P.S. I am a Heating Engineer and see the disaster of accredited non time served contractors undercutting the skilled workforce.
@ffviifakeremake9997 9 ай бұрын
I DIY-ed my own solar installation, how easy would it be to cut my electric bill? I only use it to charge up my battery bank, should I phone my electric provider and ask them if I can save money on my bills or can someone here point me in thr right direction? I a noobie to this, but love experimenting with solar.
@Lyndalewinder 9 ай бұрын
Good move Octopus!
@theamazingtypo 9 ай бұрын
Nice one, just joined RECC and am awaiting my MCS number after my assessment, lmao!
@tommfuller 9 ай бұрын
My labradoodle is on a staycation most days! :D
@adrianscarlett 9 ай бұрын
Should be open to diy installs, solar is way overpriced. In Switzerland you can join a cooperative to benefit from bulk purchasing and free advise, and do the work yourself. There needs to be a push towards home solar, energy storage, and export. All new build sites and building designs should be oriented to maximise solar capabilities, and have geothermal, air source, wind and all other viable options included by default
@andyhodchild8 9 ай бұрын
Having had my rant about MCS i would point out that i had to shut a system down because it was dangerous. This was sold by a non mcs company and so did not follow all the OFT rules, well any of the rules. Presumably the 'electrician' was NICEIC and even MCS but as there was no paperwork i did not know. They had added an additional 2.5kWp sytem with batteries to the existing 6kWp G59 system. No G99, they put AC output into AC output to the 6kWp system. The original system was on 4mm2 but should have been on 6mm2 so now it taking 8.5kW. They must have missed that it was 4mm and to alter the system down by fues boards they dropped it down to 2.5mm2. These were the hot cables i felt that sent a shiver down my spine! This was on a care home!! MCS didn’t want to know and CB said walk away. MCC should have been made responsible for all installations for each and any technologies they choose to govern. Then they should have gone out to investigate issues with unregistered installations as well. That would have given more confidence to MCS installers and support to consumers. However this change by Octopus could also allow non electricians gold diggers to move in. Then we find its all sales companies with no technical knowledge that go and get jobs and whoever they find to fit it...
@JezCunningham 9 ай бұрын
"Staycation" - Yay!!! 👍
@alpachino468 9 ай бұрын
As an average Joe consumer, should I be concerned at all about an installer not having to submit an MCS certificate, in terms of quality of installation - or anything that could affect my home and/or home insurance? Apologies in advance if this is a silly question, but better to ask than to be sorry later...
@efixx 9 ай бұрын
It's a good question and one that plagues all areas of the industry, even being part of a certificated scheme doesn't always guarantee a good job unfortunately. 🙁
@waqasahmed939 9 ай бұрын
FWIW, I've not been asked if my solar installation was done why someone who was MCS certified but there's nothing to say it won't be an issue for insurance companies going forwards. Like you, I'm merely a consumer
@Chris-hy6jy 9 ай бұрын
If Octopus are buying your kWhs for 15p and then selling them back to you for 30p+, i think maximizing self-consumption is the way forward. Theres a good few AC coupled battery systems available these days that will work with any existing grid-tie system.
@MrBobmeadows 9 ай бұрын
Under Octopus Flux, the import premium is about 11p on the same export price.
@NathanaelHarwood 9 ай бұрын
Don't forget how the 15p compares with literally any other provider - average for the SEG is 5p. Octopus are the only decent option, but using as much yourself is obviously the way to go if you can afford battery storage
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
@@NathanaelHarwood Absolutely agree, though the SEG import might help with saving up for batteries ... wishful thinking maybe!
@jsouto77 9 ай бұрын
@@NathanaelHarwood I dont think that is what they are incentivising at the moment. In other words, that using as much of your solar is the way to go (at the moment). When you consider than you can sell at 15p during the day and then buy back at 7.5p at night. I would say its more that they want to bring more solar arrays online as to maximise the throughput of the green energy during the peak hours albeit in this case you can look at it as a bit of an off peak since one solar array is able to supply a few other households base load. This in turn means its cheaper to fill the batteries and cars at night when these power plants have to be on regardless.
@arcadia1701e 9 ай бұрын
Time to do the same with napit and niceic then...
@rizwankhan-wx3pb 9 ай бұрын
Nice work👍😊
@Lyndalewinder 9 ай бұрын
Another QUANGO (MCS) bites the dust - good!
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
Are the words Labradoodle and Walkies by any chance?
@philipholme9911 9 ай бұрын
its my understanding having spoken with MCS, RECC, OFGEM and the Energy Networks Association (ENA)that this information is not all that it seems, micro generation schemes connecting to the grid have to comply with the ENA regulations one of the ways of achiving compliace is via MCS. or other schemes.
@MartinE63 9 ай бұрын
I’d just self certify but I’d sooner consume everything my side of the meter than export. The requirement for a ‘smart meter’ is a red line I will not cross.
@efixx 9 ай бұрын
Yur, I'm holding off for as long as possible! 😃
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
Can't say I blame you, had one forced upon me and it's been an utter nightmare. Stopped working every time I changed supplier. Hopefully I'll be with the current one for a while at least, so won't have to deal with it again for some time!
@billsbasementworkshop1902 9 ай бұрын
The words are, Labradoodle and staycation.
@richardbushnell1065 9 ай бұрын
cracking news about MCS
@PF-gi9vv 9 ай бұрын
The new pylons would look better in chrome
@inh415 9 ай бұрын
Does anyone have any experience with sunsynk inverters or the OEM deye?
@efixx 9 ай бұрын
We are using Sunsynk
@inh415 9 ай бұрын
@@efixx Seems like a good (cheeper) alternative to victron. Have you had any experience of their support? I have been trying to find out if it's possible to parallel more than 4 of the 3phase 10KW units. The manual states 4 in one place and 10 in another. The OEM deye units support 10 in parallel, though maybe this is reduced on sunsynk due to harmonics and ENA certification or similar.
@stevenbroadbent5417 8 ай бұрын
We bought a house last year that had a new solar installation carried out by Project Solar UK and I've got to say it is shoddy workmanship at best. The roof is now sagging after nearly 2 years. The terminations look like a first year apprentice could have done better. I found unsleeved CPC conductors, cables unsupported and in inside of the board looks a mess. I've been an approved contractor for quite a while now and I am looking at becoming MCS accredited but if this is the standard of MCS accreditied installs, I don't see the benefit. A big problem I find with the electrical industry here in the UK is that we seem to have too many people under qualified people pretending to be "Electricians" and employers are not willing to pay the proper qualified electricians a proper wage. I've seen solar installation positions advertised as "Experience preferred, but not essential". If you are a proper electrician, doing the job properly, you find it is an expensive trade to be associated with. Some installers I've come across are an even worse alternative to the six week wonders NAPIT and the NIC were churning out in past years.
@don1estelle 9 ай бұрын
T Pylones look grate the have similar ones in France
@kazloku9376 9 ай бұрын
The fire risk is more likely from self installers trying to upload nothing using batteries etc so this 'just need a grid tied inverter' option will be much safer.
@andyhodchild8 9 ай бұрын
MCS is a money making outfit that bring nothing other than raking in money. I just got my invoice £1600 for two technologies and part P. There will be another £400 to RECC and so it goes on. I had a solar thermal system that ofgem took £1k back from customer due to the MCS form I filled in being incorrect. I put the efficiency in as 78% but MCS wanted it put in as 0.78 but this was not clear. They later changed the form but wouldn't compensate my customer. So much for consumer protection!
@ThangiahGopal-iy2hg 9 ай бұрын
சிறப்பு👍
@andyhodchild8 9 ай бұрын
My love hate of MCS makes me wonder if we could get a reformed mcs that would be fit for purpose? As aside from the importance of the technical side there is the regulation of sales pitches, particularly around performance. I do wonder about the roof side of solar, which is as important as the electrical side. MCS MIS 012 is very annoying as i have only found the unirac post and Oatey flashings, the only good system for Yorkshire grey slates but no 012. Then i find that the rules set out in 012, no load to roof cover, and no reliance on sealant are in my opinion not actually provided by some 012 approved systems! A problem when these bodies are money making and not public. They sell their licences to anyone who will pay.
@TheWebstaff 9 ай бұрын
Poor Ian... His grift is over. Now if we can just get rid of all the other barrier courses and certs we can finally crack on and get the UK moving again.
@coord47 9 ай бұрын
Would selling my solar generated exports to Octopus impact on my Feed in Tariff?
@solarrover9575 9 ай бұрын
If you have a FIT contract you can’t sign up for the SEG.
@VinoVeritas_ 9 ай бұрын
@@solarrover9575Yes you can. How long did you say you've been an installer?
@jayp913 9 ай бұрын
@@solarrover9575 you can sign up for a SEG but only for a separate installation - or you can surrender your FIT and switch to a SEG, thought that isn't a good idea.
@davestevenson7773 9 ай бұрын
You can opt out of the deemed export portion of your FIT deal and take SEG instead. The FIT payment for all you generate will still be paid.
@felipetheduke 9 ай бұрын
MCS is going to slow down the green transition. Spain, Germany and France are years ahead of the UK in PV generation all because of MCS. Hehehe. I have done more than 1MW of PV in Spain but here in UK zero!
@MarkUKInsects 9 ай бұрын
Walkies & supermodel.
@bradleyarcher9840 9 ай бұрын
MCS is being dropped, what about DNO approval? As I’m sure you need to send the DNO an MCS certificate to achieve permission to get the final sign off?
@craigchamberlain 9 ай бұрын
No, the DNO application does not need an MCS certificate. In fact, the DNO application and approval, at least for G99, has to be done up front before the installation has started so it would be impossible to have an MCS cert at that time. For G98 it might be different but I very much doubt it. The DNO application for a typical domestic system only needs some very simple information about the intended installation provided the inverter being proposed is fully type tested. It's a very simple process.
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
@@craigchamberlain You can get G98 retrospectively (after buying the inverter but prior to connection) but I'd consider it risky to buy the inverter without the G98 paperwork filed and approved. You might end up stuck with an inverter worth thousands that you can't use...
@craigchamberlain 9 ай бұрын
@@electrickery yeah I was 99.9% sure that was the case but didn't want to talk authoritatively about G98 when my only experience is of G99. In my case I had a bumpy ride with G99 because the inverter I had bought (Victron Multiplus-II 5kVA) had its type testing certificate revoked by ENA after I had bought it but before I had completed the DNO application. When I ordered the inverter it was on the list of approved inverters but then was removed and it took a few months to get it back on the approved list again. Once that was sorted it was smooth sailing but it was a nervy time.
@philipholme9911 9 ай бұрын
absolutely correct.
@sang3Eta 9 ай бұрын
You can check your inverters g98/99/100 certification if you search ENA-ENG
@obd6HsN 9 ай бұрын
Pylon? Pylon???? They're towers! :)
@MAXlMUS66 6 ай бұрын
Good
@Reecejordan9000 9 ай бұрын
Words slipped in there are staycation and labradoodle 😂
@ianbutherway 9 ай бұрын
Some of the worst solar installers I have seen are MCS registered!
@Fullchargeelectricalservices 9 ай бұрын
If MCS wasn’t private then maybe they’d have a leg to stand on. It was only important when PV was really quite new.
@andyhodchild8 9 ай бұрын
That's the government of the day for you. I feel sure that when the likes of BRE were not private Grenfell Tower would have been a lot less likely.
@GSHElectrical 9 ай бұрын
👍🏻😮
@pureblood3730 9 ай бұрын
Staycation and Labradoodle?
@rogerbrookfield9232 9 ай бұрын
Labradoodle and humble
@jamesreilly8455 9 ай бұрын
Fizzing and Labradoodle?
@DJ-SPARKY-REACH-ON-AIR 9 ай бұрын
Labradoodle walkiesgood video
@cprfenom 9 ай бұрын
Staycation and labradoodle. I do agree that its a holiday at home and not your own country though 😋😋
@alanclark2584 9 ай бұрын
still want a £250 fee for joining up....they are putting a price on the MCS certs or profiteering.
@BlackBeltBarrister 9 ай бұрын
Of course Rippin slammed the decision. This will effectively kill the business!
@davidewing6009 9 ай бұрын
Let us and lattice 😂😂😂
@TheWebstaff 9 ай бұрын
"Stay cation." Is that 2 words?
@Chequr_Prostate 9 ай бұрын
I’m surprised entrepreneurs haven’t put in a few EV chargers and put extortionate usage charges on them, could power them off generators I would think. Alternatively the locals with EV chargers should be hiring them out, again at extortionate prices.
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
It'll probably be the next money spinner for car parks, after "fines" for getting stuck in a traffic jam while you're leaving the car park...
@marklola12 9 ай бұрын
Their customers service has gone down crap loads since taking on too many customers more so all the bulb customers. Shocking of thry have fallen in quality of service
@andyhodchild8 9 ай бұрын
I have an Octopus customer trying to get SEG for more than a year. I tried to help and ended up with a dialogue through my MP's office but even that ended up going round in circles. Octopus say dno must provide export MPAN and dno says Octopus must. I read SEG rules and it states that Octopus must but can't get them to do it. I do wonder that they are trying to limit the number of people getting SEG?
@petersort2192 9 ай бұрын
Just contacted Octopus and they say this is not true
@InTruServ 9 ай бұрын
Labradoodle - walkies
@johntorris2871 9 ай бұрын
Labradorite waiting for walkies
@antonythornton1985 9 ай бұрын
If you have intelligent octopus, which is what they are pushing EV owner to have, The maximum they will pay you for export, is .04p Octopus is not as friendly a company as They try to portray themselves to be.
@techheck3358 9 ай бұрын
the SEG is an ofgem scheme, guaranteeing 0.04. octopus pays you 15p per kwh
@craigchamberlain 9 ай бұрын
It's actually 4.1p not 0.04p but yes it's not great. But then again, you can't expect to buy energy at 7.5p and then sell it back at 15p a short time later. That said, Octopus Flux lets you pretty much do just that, but might only work well in the summer for most of us. These smart tariffs are amazing but also very confusing and hard to evaluate. You really need a lot of data about your generation and consumption profiles to have any chance of selecting the best tariff. But I think it is so much better than the traditional old tariffs we had years ago.
@VinoVeritas_ 9 ай бұрын
So you want your cake and eat it?
@scubajoe 9 ай бұрын
@VinoVeritas_ Too right :-)
@davidewing6009 9 ай бұрын
Let us And lattice 😂😂
@rizwankhan-wx3pb 9 ай бұрын
Hello sir i need help plz reply me
@jonpearnpersonal8837 9 ай бұрын
Labradoodle & Supermodel
@barryjdwyer 9 ай бұрын
Labradoodle & Supermodel?
@rogerbrookfield9232 9 ай бұрын
Labradoodle and supermodel
@rogerbrookfield9232 9 ай бұрын
Walkies and supermodels
@therealtimwarren 9 ай бұрын
Good move, Octopus! Ian Riffin can get bent.
@tibbs1cat 9 ай бұрын
Ian Ripping very unhappy? well he would be since they made 1.5 million profit in the last year!...all for doing what exactly? MCS was and always has been a con to make money for the already well off! After seeing an absolute sham of an install by MCS trained fitters I fitted my own 9 kWh solar setup still using approved MCS parts I'm just not exporting because I'm not MCS approved, I got everything direct from the UK's largest solar supplier and spent a week on my own fitting it all, it was all done for under £3k and a year and a half later its paid for itself! the exact same system from E'ON was quoted at £13629 over £10k more! so WHO is making that extra 10k? the fitters? I dont think so!
@andrewstafford-jones4291 9 ай бұрын
One less set of grifters involved, nice to see Octopus ridding the Industry of one parasite.
@petercoggan-lennox845 9 ай бұрын
Fizzing & Stay-cation
@crwainwright 9 ай бұрын
Stacation & Labradoodle
@stevejacklin8462 9 ай бұрын
staycation labradoodle
@jayp913 9 ай бұрын
Labradoodle waiting for walk ... ?
@alanjewell9550 9 ай бұрын
New pylons stick out like a sore thumb. Why do they have to be brilliant white? Mich more obtrusive than the traditional lattice style. Not a fan ..
@kevtkw3369 9 ай бұрын
labradoodle & lattice
@rogerbellows2961 9 ай бұрын
Staycation and labradoole
@jasimalijasimali4061 9 ай бұрын
Pele's contact
@returner323617 9 ай бұрын
Regarding the power surge in Kent, would an SPD have provided complete protection..?
@electrickery 9 ай бұрын
It'd depend on the strength of the surge. SPDs are only meant to filter minor surges like motor noise off of the line, not huge spikes like substation faults (could be 400V up to a kilovolt or more at might-as-well-be-infinite amps) or lightning. If it made sockets smoke, lightbulbs explode and air fresheners shoot out of the wall (from a Kent Live "news" report so I guess treat as possibly embellished!), it would probably just have blown up the SPD.
@jasimalijasimali4061 9 ай бұрын
Hy I'm jasam I'm solar master and engineering techar
@mark_just_mark 9 ай бұрын
Slammed and Labradoodle
@adventuresofanathan 9 ай бұрын
Labradoodle Mulling
@markrichardson7475 9 ай бұрын
Staycation and labradoodle
@stevenbramwell6973 9 ай бұрын
Labradoodle and walkies
@rachelburbidge4450 9 ай бұрын
Supermodel and labradoodle
@RaithUK 9 ай бұрын
MCS is nothing more than another Gatekeeper so im glad they have got destroyed by this lol i cant wait for more companies to stop paying attention to the scheme.
@inh415 9 ай бұрын
Octopus haven't required MCS for ages they just haven't advertised it. As long as you have DNO approval and a suitably qualified sparky signing off the final connections Octopus will pay for feed in. Key is in the name MCS - scheme Total waste of space and money for both solar and heatpumps.
@VinoVeritas_ 9 ай бұрын
It hasn't been ages. Octopus Energy only changed their Ts & Cs on July 18th, 2023.
@inh415 9 ай бұрын
@@VinoVeritas_ officially / publicly maybe but plenty of people have done DIY installs prior to this change in T&C's without any MCS sign off and still get payments from octopus. Still need a qualified spark for final connections and testing but avoid the MCS tax. It's quite buried in a document ( from ofgem I think?) But MCS has always been a recommendation rather than a requirement. Only thing MCS has ever guaranteed AFAICT is that your installation will cost more due to the ridiculous amount of paper pushing and admin. No real guarantee that it's designed to best fit the customers needs.
@VinoVeritas_ 9 ай бұрын
@@inh415 I don't listen to anecdotes and the Ofgem document you're referring to has no relevance either.
@inh415 9 ай бұрын
@@VinoVeritas_ Do your own research then. I did and was already in the process of DIY installing a 50KW system prior to Octopus's official change of t&c.
@VinoVeritas_ 9 ай бұрын
@@inh415 MCS certification only covers installations up to 50kW, so once you reach that level, it becomes an irrelevance to the Licensed Electricity Supplier that's making the SEG payments.
@r0464 9 ай бұрын
My take as a 10yr+ experienced installer and Managing Director: A considerable line of our work is rectifying poor quality and unsafe installation carried out by other installers. Whilst being MCS accredited is no guarantee of quality workmanship (you don’t need to look far to see that), without exception the work we have been out to repair so far has been done by non-accredited installers - and some of it has been outright dangerous. I can’t see what good would have come from allowing uncertified installations. Whilst it does cost money and time to be an MCS accredited installer, it doesn’t actually cost that much money and that much time. If you think your work is of sufficient standard to install Solar PV on someone’s house, then you’re good enough to be MCS Accredited. What people aren’t considering also is insurance, mortgages and selling/buying houses without these certificates in place. That said, change/improvements in the MCS system are long overdue (and looks to be coming).
@VinoVeritas_ 9 ай бұрын
I love it when installers start talking about insurance, mortgages and conveyancing. You haven't got a clue.
@jasimalijasimali4061 9 ай бұрын
Peleas work permit sand me
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