...solar panels are definitely connected up to my electricity account 'cos the icon on my smart meter has come on 5 times in the last hour and a half!
I was told it didn't need to be sunny for the solar panels to work, just light enough to be noticeable (so they don't work from sunset to sunrise or when there's a huge storm, although I think the installer said that as long as it wasn't so stormy that it was dark, they would still work even then) and that's been true so far this afternoon, which is a relief.
I think I've got my central heating settings spot on and an engineer is coming out on Friday morning to fit the panel which'll hopefully fix the message that is on the screen as soon as I turn the control panel on. I've been nice and warm all day and I've only used £2.48 of electricity since midnight, which is less than I'd already used when the meter turned itself on at 6am yesterday, so that's even better!
Hopefully Friday's fix is the last thing that needs to be sorted and I can reward myself with my last Mocktail after s/he's gone, although it depends on how soon before lunch that is lol