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What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025

scotthelme.co.uk published 2026-01-139 min read

Throughout 2025, I spoke a few times about our home energy solution, including our grid usage, our solar array and our Tesla Powerwall batteries. Now that I have a full year of data, I wanted to take a look at exactly how everything is working out, and, in alignment with

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