News, Testing and Off-Grid Generation

The Groundskeeper system can do so much more than simply water your plants. It has a number of features which make it more sophisticated and versatile than a primitive automatic watering timer. Here, its hose mode enables us to use clean, soft rainwater to top up the pond and save our fish.

Now we're finally getting into summer the Ark is producing so much energy it's not only running the Summer house office but also the green house and entertainment area! It's a really good feeling knowing none of this energy is...
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Here's something new to me! We have two banks of solar panels that are closely monitored but today one bank was consistently generating about 50W less. I looked out over the solar array and something big, something black was on...
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Beware! When looking at setting up your own solar power It can be tempting to buy a cheap imported inverter, or a product containing one. DON’T take the risk! As part of our rigorous R&D and testing process, we have...
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Good luck to all those students sitting GCSEs over the next few weeks! We thought we'd share our GCSE countdown calendar in case you'd like to make one.