FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Yes,Breakeven about 4 years, solar power is a long-term investment that involves pre-paying electricity costs upfront, providing benefits for at least 25 to 30 years. By offsetting a portion of your electric bill, solar allows you to save money compared to traditional utility payments.
While solar prices have decreased significantly in the past decade, recent factors such as increased demand and potential tariffs on imported panels may lead to price fluctuations. Despite this, the current time is considered favorable for adopting solar due to existing incentives that drop every year and potential future cost increases.
Solar power can be stored in batteries we have a a complete range of different battery systems. We can design that you cycle, the batteries twice a day. Filling them with off-peak power at night, using it in shoulder (in the morning ) charging with the solar power and removing your Peak power which is up to $.64 a kilowatt hour. Breakeven for batteries is about five years.
Yes, solar power can offset all or a percentage of your entire house’s electricity usage. The size and angle of your roof, along with your budget, determine the amount of electricity that can be offset.
Solar power advantages include savings from avoiding rising utility rates, tax benefits, environmental friendliness, and energy independence. By investing in solar, you can eliminate a portion of your electric bill for decades.
Solar systems generate power during daylight hours, even on cloudy days. Net metering allows excess energy produced during the day to offset nighttime energy consumption, making solar effective around the clock or us a battery to store and release energy when the sun is not shining.
Solar power saves money by reducing reliance on external electricity sources, allowing homeowners to generate their own power. The initial investment in a solar system results in long-term cost savings compared to traditional utility payments.
Sizing a system is a lot more complicated than looking at your bill and choosing a system that will generate enough electricity to cover your usage.
Our solar engineer needs to understand when you use electricity in your home, not just how much you use – because if you use all of your electricity at night, solar won’t be much help!
They need to estimate how much you will export and how much you will import to make a good estimate of your savings. This changes at different times of the year, due to the angle of the sun.
Be wary of any solar company that claims this is a simple calculation!
Before starting designing solar installations, I spent decades in manufacturing where an old engineer once told me:
“There’s always someone prepared to make something a little worse to sell a little cheaper”
In my experience of the solar industry, there’s always someone willing to import something a lot worse to sell a little cheaper. It can mean the difference between your system lasting 2-3 years and it lasting 25-35 years.
We refuse to install cheap gear because it breaks and we don’t want to be rung up by an angry client claiming it is our fault when we repeatedly told them not to put in cheap gear.
Yes, and No, if you can provide a written quote and we can work out what equipment it is. Yes, sometimes we can make the system cheaper as long as we agree with the quality of the brands and the warranty. As we are friends with many of the suppliers with 20 years in the business, you want the equipment to last more than 20 years and you want warranties guaranteed as we manage the manufacturers guarantee.
Yes, if you’re near the beach or can see the beach or you get salt spray. We advise using a double glass solar panel. Generally, we use a German panel, which will last 30 years and is oblivious to salt buildup and the shorting of the electrical system that causes.