Save money by switching your home energy to solar power

Despite the soaring cost of living, Kya deLongchamps started 2023 in credit with her electricity supplier. Here's how she did it

I went into January €261 in credit with my electricity supplier, Electric Ireland (EI). This is not smug bragging, I’m advocating. To run an EV car and the entire house in 2022, this was a rare win, and hardly terrifying, looking ahead to 2023/2024.

We owe this bounce to the considered use of our solar-photovoltaic panels, utilising the potential of a 6.5kWh storage battery, and being disciplined around the proven advantages of time-of-use energy tariffs (T-o-U). I enjoy a steady, seasonal performance from a relatively small 4.2kWp PV-solar system c.2019, and it’s something that every family in Ireland should be assisted in adding to their domestic energy round.