{"id":645,"date":"2018-08-01T16:10:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/solar-panel-installation-project\/?p=638"},"modified":"2018-09-12T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T11:14:55","slug":"free-electricity-to-cut-the-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/free-electricity-to-cut-the-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Electricity To Cut The Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Cutting the grass for free!<\/h1>\n<p>When you have solar panels installed you can cut the grass for nothing or at least a lot less than if you didn&#8217;t have some of these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/solar-system-specifications\/\">electricity generating panels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst cutting the grass today, it was that sunny, I actually ran my mower for nothing saving \u00a3\u00a3\u00a3s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/category\/solar-panel-installation\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-640 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/grass-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By cutting the grass or carrying out any other work during the peak generation period, for me and my system this is between 11am and 2pm, I was able to run the electric mower for free today.<\/p>\n<p>The South, South East solar system was generating around 1800kwh at this time. This is the same power required to run the mower.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a great feeling knowing that on a bright sunny day I can get out and cut the grass whilst also saving money \ud83d\ude42 This is also on top of what I&#8217;m already earning from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/solar-pv-feed-in-tariffs-increase\/\">solar PV feed-in tariff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting the grass for free! When you have solar panels installed you can cut the grass for nothing or at least a lot less than if you didn&#8217;t have some of these electricity generating&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21,31,37],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-panel-installation-project","tag-free-electric","tag-solar-electricity","tag-south-south-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onfocus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}