energystack

The archive

Articles.

Long-form essays. We show our working and update conclusions when the evidence moves.

Battery · 14 min

Should you add a home battery to a small solar array?

A 4 kWp roof in Surrey, a 5 kWh battery and a year of half-hourly meter data.

Solar · 9 min

Why our first system was the wrong shape

A 2.8 kWp system was the sensible number in 2019. It is not now.

EV · 11 min

Smart chargers are mostly all the same

Three differences that matter, seven that the marketing wants you to weight.

Heat pumps · 17 min

Two installers, two surveys, two different answers

A semi in West Yorkshire. The 14 kW survey was wrong.

Battery · 6 min

V2H is nearly here. Mostly.

The vehicle-to-home story keeps getting closer. We tally what is shipping.

Tariffs · 8 min

The smart-tariff trap nobody talks about

The cheapest unit rate is not the cheapest tariff.