Agree. Toasty through the recent cold snap, and with solar too we're at net zero bills. Netzerohome.uk

Well done. Experiences do seem to vary, have to say ours was easy & cheap, just £800 after grant & we've met a good few others with similar, especially via Octopus.

This is what you'd expect
... except, using an IR thermometer on internal walls, I can't detect any such gradient in our house. People move the air around maybe, but even in unused rooms I can't detect it. 🤔

If your FiT rate is that high, fair enough!

We cover all our energy costs with solar & battery, inc heat.

And everything they might do against wind & solar would block home grown British energy projects, replacing them with imported fossil. How can that fit with their patriotic posture?!

Add in solar & battery & you can get your elec cost down to 10p or so. For us they paid back at ~15% & we ended up with zero bills.

Often not that pricey. Ours was £8k for 4 bed house, £800 after grant. Need to get lots of quotes...

Good stuff. 1 suggestion: If you have an EV, you probably have an EV tariff. Why not charge your battery up to the eyeballs every night for 7p, and sell your solar for 15p instead of using it to charge the battery?
We also then discharge any excess battery to grid at peak time, using HA.

As a cyclist in London I could easily hear an EV coming up behind me, even over the background noise. It makes a clear hum.

We think our solar battery combo is paying back quicker than that, maybe 6 years. And it keeps paying you. You make savings on your heating & driving too - solar was covering 20% of the heating even before we got the battery.

My local tree "surgeon" told me he was cutting just for firewood orders, & then partly drying the wood by burning diesel in an old shipping container.
You can never tell if wood is sustainable unless you've watched it grow yourself.

Good news - it's incredible, & maybe corrupt, that wood burners are allowed in dense urban areas. I've known an entire street full of smoke due to just one being lit.

OBR reckons pay per mile for EVs "is likely to reduce demand for electric cars as it increases their lifetime cost". Expecting 440k fewer sales through to 2030 compared to previous forecast, offset by a 130k increase in sales from more funding for the government's grant scheme'.

With battery & ToU we're getting 7p for almost all our elec, inc heat pump. Should end up with something around 2:1.

Fair enough, but all this focuses on the price cap. There are so many ways to get cheaper elec, whether with time-of-use tariffs or battery. And yet as you know only 9% of households use ToU tariffs. Awareness is low.

Yes, ours 4.5x as much heat as elec.
Then get 20% elec free from solar, even in winter.
& then get elec @ 7p using smart tariffs and a battery.
=1.2 p/kWh.
Vs 7p for gas price cap/90% efficient boiler.
Standard comparison of gas & elec prices misses the point, so many ways to bring elec cost down.

Electrification of heat is probably more important than cp2030, so this is a bad move. There are many in between options, eg reduce grant or make it taxable. & Remember some of the grant comes back to HMT in installer taxes.