People on a Swansea estate are reducing bills by sharing solar panels and storing the power.
£0.5bn to £1bnSource: Decarbonisation of Homes in Wales Advisory Group, July 2019
"The aim is to... protect our customers from the peaks and troughs in the volatility in the market that we currently see now," said Pobl director of regeneration Solitaire Pritchard.Solitaire Pritchard from social housing provider Pobl says residents are "learning to live" with battery technology "We're hoping that what we've learned here can be shared across the sector and obviously then applied across all homes in Wales."The company doing the retrofit is renewable energy supplier Sero, and project manager Anne-Marie Ratcliffe said a key part of the work was teaching residents how to get the most out of the technology.
"Every person who's participating in this scheme will see a benefit to their energy bills and their energy usage in their homes," she added.Anne-Marie Ratcliffe says the in-home battery is controlled by smart technology that determines "the most energy and cost-efficient way to run the home"
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