Is Solar & Battery Storage really a good investment in the UK?

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[fyank]

Correct sizing of your battery is very important. I added a Powerwall this July to complement my solar array. Effectively go off grid in summer and pay 7.5p per kWh in winter to charge PW and EV. PW has ample capacity to run house each day even in mid December. The fact that it’s thermally managed also means no drop off in charge/discharge rates in depths of winter.

[LisaCoxell]

These guys installed my panels for me! They couldn’t have been more professional and helpful.
Answered every query I had (and I had a lot!).
Highly recommended

[lawrencedavidson]

Time for you to add a second battery!
I built my own small 1000 watt system here in Jamaica and it supplies about half my power. Definitely worth it. Cheers!

[richardgore]

Had 19 415w panels with optimisers on each panel. 9.5kw givenergy battery gen3 and givenergy gen3 inverter for just under £12k installed. East west facing but generating well from October install

[oliviairving]

Solar seems so much more complex than standard electricity installation. A fuse box and a metre but from what I see here, so many gadgets for solar. I was wondering about the outside of the house when the panels are added onto to the roof or wherever. What kind of trailing is there? If you have an aerial, for example, there is a cable running along an outside wall. Solar panels that I have seen have only been from a distant and only the roof. I haven't seen any close up of the outside of any home.

[onlystefan]

Sol Fuel did my solar system and i could not be happier in the summer months i run total off solar saves me so much money

[IXISSV]

That 3rd install with the flat panels, eeek! All the water pooling is going to create moss etc, blocking the sunlight. He should get those panels tilted. Hope you gave him that advice 🤞

[nobotshere]

Suspect the first customer wish he had got a second battery for that size array. Great setup and video.

[jeffreyumeh]

It depends on what you call small scale for wind, if we are talking even 10kW it's pretty effective at that point if you are in a windy area without a lot of building around.

[jpayne]

Brilliant video from a brilliant company dedicated to customer experience and outcomes! Looking forward to the next video 👍

[darrenharmer]

Very interesting and informative! Thanks for the info!

[ypyp]

Looking at it myself at the moment. These costs seem very high compared to the systems I’ve been looking at, which seems to have equivalent functionality. Is that because hardware costs now are significantly (greater than a third less) less than they were when this was produced?

[MrSensible]

I had our system put in in September 2022. It's a west facing, 8 x 395W JA Solar panel array (3.16kWp) coupled with Growatt 3.68 kW inverter & a 3.3 kWh Growatt battery. It cost £8, 750.

Our annual domestic consumption is 2, 050 kWh & the system, in its first year produced 2, 500 kWh. We're on the Octopus Flux tariff.

If I could go back in time, I would NOT have gone the solar route. It took me a while to realise it, but for low power consumers, solar is hopelessly uneconomic!

Think about it. At the Octopus standard tariff of 28.8p/kWh, my 2, 050 kWh would (excluding standing charge) cost £590.40/year. So the cost of the system was 14.8x my annual bill, so14.8 years until the thing breaks-even (assuming it doesn't breakdown in that period!).

It's not the best investment in the world is it??

[Uk-Writer]

No is the answer, my neighbour has a 8 panel system on a 3 bed house, in the south generates £1 of electricity a day in the summer with the sun fully hitting it, cost 9k to install.

[philiburbarnard]

and how much is the batteries going to set you back after 10years? With Li-ion prob not as frequent but more
expensive at the moment.

[davefish]

I don’t have a big house or an attached garage so really not an option for me.
Would be interested in the yearly maintenance cost and life expectancy of the systems

[ipadprogamer]

Make a video on earthing system please!

[vevenaneathna]

my 7k$usd 13 year old phev saves me $3, 300/year. hard to beat the ROI of an older PHEV like a chevy volt. getting 45-50 miles range on the 10.5kwh battery (reserves the extra 6kwh so the battery basically lasts forever). I added 2x 100w solar panels to the roof of the car, just simple wired them into the low voltage system to reduce parasitic 12v load, and they paid for themselves after 3 months because solar is so cheap and gas is so expensive. the car has actually somehow gone up in value since I bought it, and it only has to last about 1 more year to be a free car. cant even make that much money putting it into the stock market unless I averaged 40% for 3 years which has never happened before.

[steveyoung]

you need more batteries and not more solar. you could have a heat pump for heating, looks like ground source would be good at your property

[lancemangold]

SOUND IS SO QUIET, I CANT HEAR IT PROPERLY !!!