Making The Most Of The Solar Energy That The United Kingdom Gets, By Utilising Solar Energy Panels, Can Also Assist A home Owner Both Assist The Environment And Save Money.

{ June 28th, 2011 }

While this country is not famed for its sunshine, there is enough of it to make Solar Energy Panels a appropriate choice for delivering power via the sun as a renewable energy source. Solar Energy Panels actually do work at their best efficiency in bright sunlight, which is why they are popular on the continent, but Solar Energy Panels will actually still produce good quantities of power on overcast days.

From the home owner outlook, Solar Energy Panels will surely satisfy any environmentally friendly criteria and also enable the home owner to make savings on their power bills at the same time. Naturally the Solar Energy Prices need to be taken into consideration since all of the fixing work needed as well as the Solar Energy Panels themselves have to be paid for. For a normal family home the Solar Energy Prices are in the region of £12,000 for a 2.2 kW Solar Energy Panels system. If the home owner requires a larger or smaller Solar Energy Panels system, then Solar Energy Prices per kW delivering capacity are in the region of £4,000 to £8,000, depending on site conditions.

The savings, quite clearly come from the reduced power need from the utility organisation, since the 2.2 kW Solar Energy Panels system could produce in the region of 40% of the normal family’s power need. In addition there are extras in the form of the feed-in tariff, a government scheme to stimulate renewable energy take up, which can pay the home owner for each kW their Solar Energy Panels system supplies. Further, if they have an over supply at some times of the day and don’t have battery storage, they can transfer the unused power to the national grid and get paid for that as well.

So all in all, Solar Energy Panels can provide the home owner with a solution that will help the environment by saving in the region of 1 tonne of CO2 per year, while at the same time cutting their power bills significantly. However, the Solar Energy Prices paid could well take in the region of 12 to 13 years to be paid back in terms of money saved from the Solar Energy Panels system, but surely, environmentally friendly home owner are in this for the long term?