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The modern home runs on a stack, not a meter.

Solar panels, batteries, an EV charger, a heat pump and the smart tariff that ties them together. We write the independent guides and build the tools to help you choose, install and run them well.

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The energy stack

14 guides · 3 tools

Generation

Solar

Panels, inverters, microinverters, mounting and the surprisingly large gap between modelled and measured output.

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11 guides · 2 tools

Storage

Battery storage

Home batteries, hybrid systems, V2H and the long question of whether storage pays back in your lifetime.

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9 guides · 2 tools

Mobility

EV charging

Home chargers, smart tariffs, load balancing and the truth about public network reliability.

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Heat pumps

Air source, ground source, the radiator question, the grants, the noise and the survey that decides it all.

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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. We ran the numbers four different ways.

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EV · 11 min

Smart chargers are mostly all the same. Here is what actually differs.

Three differences that matter, seven that the marketing pages want you to weight. We separated them.

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Heat pumps · 17 min

Two installers, two surveys, two different answers

A semi in West Yorkshire. The 14 kW survey was wrong. Here is how to tell when yours is too.

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