Are Zerohomebills still trading?

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Are Zerohomebills still trading?

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Both the phone lines listed on their web site are reported as not available or discontinued
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No idea who the company is, link to homepage?
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Doesn't look good, lots of negative reviews & Directors are listed as Adolf and Eva :shock: Plus Companies House says "Proposal to Strike off".


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Mr Gus wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:26 am No idea who the company is, link to homepage?
https://www.zerohomebills.com/

They've not been responding to requests for a long time, well over a year that I know of. I suspect they probably ceased trading some time ago but haven't taken their website down.
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marshman wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:47 am Doesn't look good, lots of negative reviews & Directors are listed as Adolf and Eva :shock: Plus Companies House says "Proposal to Strike off".
I had a quote from Adolf :? for a SMA Sunny Island a few years back but I ended up getting it cheaper from a German Ebay site, which seemed a little ironic.

Which made me think of another comedy great we have lost.
18.7kW PV > 109MWh generated
Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 26MWh generated
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Oldgreybeard wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 9:04 am
Mr Gus wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:26 am No idea who the company is, link to homepage?
https://www.zerohomebills.com/

They've not been responding to requests for a long time, well over a year that I know of. I suspect they probably ceased trading some time ago but haven't taken their website down.
Good job I didn't order my extra Pylontech module from them. The website seems fully functional even to the extent of calculating delivery at £189 (ouch!) so I tried ringing them to arrange collection.

These people got my business, they have a Black Friday promotion of 10% off everything atm, https://www.theoffgridengineer.co.uk//b ... -p491/s632
16 x 230W Upsolar panels S Devon, 4kW Steca, 3.9 MWh FITs/yr
8 x 405W Longi panels, 250/60 MPPT, 3.3 MWh/yr
Victron MultiPlus II-GX 48/5000/70-50
10.65 kWh Pylontec Force-L2
zappi 7kW EVCS
Villavent whole-house MVHR
5000l rainwater system
Vaillant 12kW HP
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@sharpener, how many extra modules are you going for ?
18.7kW PV > 109MWh generated
Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 26MWh generated
5 Other RE Coop's
105kWh EV storage
60kWh Home battery storage
40kWh Thermal storage
GSHP + A2A HP's
Rain water use > 510 m3
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nowty wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:51 pm @sharpener, how many extra modules are you going for ?
Just the one. That's the limit of the space below the new CU (I am praying I can add it by just removing the BMU and won't have to slide the whole 119 kg stack sideways into the space).

The financial case is marginal. Scottish Power's differential price is about 33p per unit so at 3.55 kWh the time shifting will in principle save ~£1 per cycle. At today's prices it will pay for itself in 1400 cycles which is a quarter of the projected life.

But I don't expect to get a full cycle every day, on a good sunny day like today I exported 2.5 kWh by mistake as I did not get the wash on early enough. As I write I have 12% left in the modules I already have and the cheap rate comes on again in 5 mins. So maybe 200 cycles a year and a payback of 7 years is realistic.

Anyway an extra one should at least ensure I can stop worrying about all this and I can move from one room to another without being all OCD about turning the lights off.
16 x 230W Upsolar panels S Devon, 4kW Steca, 3.9 MWh FITs/yr
8 x 405W Longi panels, 250/60 MPPT, 3.3 MWh/yr
Victron MultiPlus II-GX 48/5000/70-50
10.65 kWh Pylontec Force-L2
zappi 7kW EVCS
Villavent whole-house MVHR
5000l rainwater system
Vaillant 12kW HP
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sharpener wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:00 pm So maybe 200 cycles a year and a payback of 7 years is realistic.

Anyway an extra one should at least ensure I can stop worrying about all this and I can move from one room to another without being all OCD about turning the lights off.
Everytime I have worked out how much stuff saves, even back in the FIT days its always been around 7 years. It seems to be a magic number.
18.7kW PV > 109MWh generated
Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 26MWh generated
5 Other RE Coop's
105kWh EV storage
60kWh Home battery storage
40kWh Thermal storage
GSHP + A2A HP's
Rain water use > 510 m3
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nowty wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:54 pm Everytime I have worked out how much stuff saves, even back in the FIT days its always been around 7 years. It seems to be a magic number.
Funnily enough 7 years was the payback time given for our FiT PV system, installed in early 2014, too. In reality it paid back a couple of years earlier than that, we crossed the "recover the capital investment" point nearly 3 years ago now.
25 off 250W Perlight solar panels, installed 2014, with a 6kW PowerOne inverter, about 6,000kWh/year generated
6 off Pylontech US3000C batteries, with a Sofar ME3000SP inverter
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