Warm Home Optimiser

The best next move for your home and budget — geared to the Warm Homes 0% loan. Enter real quotes to sharpen the payback; it will also tell you when you're done.

Your limiting factor

Single-phase supply

Your single-phase supply caps how much you can charge, export, and run at once — three-phase is the unlock behind the bigger moves.

Best move now

Switch to a smart EV tariff

£0 → saves £350/yr · 0.0yr payback · on the 0% loan you're +£350/yr from year one.

Your home

0 = full

Your energy

0 = no gas

0 = no EV

blank = no gas boiler

Your budget

0 = Warm Homes

Off-peak 7p · export 13p · gas 6.2p. All figures modelled — adjust any input and the plan updates live.

Your options, ranked

Switch to a smart EV tariff

Best

Free. Charges your EV at ~7–8p overnight instead of the day rate.

Saves

£350/yr

Payback

0.0y

On loan

+£350/yr

Add a 10 kWh battery

Saves

£452/yr

Payback

12.2y

On loan

−£98/yr

Add 5.0 kWp solar PV

Export income needs MCS certification — otherwise only self-use counts.

Saves

£407/yr

Payback

16.0y

On loan

−£243/yr

Replace gas boiler with a heat pump

Best deferred until your boiler dies, so the grant offsets a spend you were going to make anyway.

after £7,500 grant

Saves

£98/yr

Payback

45.9y

On loan

−£352/yr

Raise export limit (G99 / DNO)

Unlocker

Only worth it if your solar/battery is actually capped by the export limit — enter your DNO quote to check.

Unlocks: export

Saves

Payback

On loan

−£200/yr

Upgrade to three-phase supply

Unlocker

An enabler more than a saver — it unblocks a bigger battery, higher export and a heat pump running alongside the EV. Enter your DNO quote.

Unlocks: higher charge rate, higher export ceiling, run heat pump + EV + battery together

Saves

Payback

On loan

−£600/yr

"On loan" is your annual saving minus the loan repayment — positive means you're up from year one. Ranked by payback; blocked and zero-value moves sink to the bottom.