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Posted 7 February 2021
Eonenergy 8-panel 2.6Kw solar panel system fitted with warranty + interest free payments - from £3,995 @ EON
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With our interest-free finance option you could get a typical 8 panel solar system installed at your home for £111 per month over 36 months. This 8-panel system with on-roof solar panels starts from just £3,995, and a 12-panel system from just £5,191.
Solar panels are a great way to generate your own electricity by using the sun's energy, and by adding battery storage could give you annual savings of up to £534 per year on your energy bills and reduce the carbon footprint of your home.
It all adds up - having one of these packages installed at your home could save you as much as £25,860 over 25 years.
Prices can vary depending on the amount of panels you require, if your roof is in full sun or partial shade and what type of solar panels you want to have.
With our interest-free finance option you could get a typical 8 panel solar system installed at your home for £111 per month over 36 months. This 8-panel system with on-roof solar panels starts from just £3,995, and a 12-panel system from just £5,191.
Solar panels are a great way to generate your own electricity by using the sun's energy, and by adding battery storage could give you annual savings of up to £534 per year on your energy bills and reduce the carbon footprint of your home.
It all adds up - having one of these packages installed at your home could save you as much as £25,860 over 25 years.
Prices can vary depending on the amount of panels you require, if your roof is in full sun or partial shade and what type of solar panels you want to have.
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Edited by a community support team member, 8 February 2021
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sorted bySave 25k over 25 years.
Are they assuming you put the 534 savings into some share scheme or something?
We would hit all our climate targets by doing so, have sustainable, clean energy and quite possibly cheaper energy too (ok, probably not).
pvfitcalculator.energysavingtrust.org.uk/
It would cost me 5k to install. I would save 309 a year.
7725 over 25 years, minus installation costs of 5k. Savings are tiny at 2725. (edited)
Maybe they should start with new builds, I am in a new build home about 4 years old now and solar panels never came with the new home, clearly they don't think it was worth adding to this property.
The EHIC certificate (think that's what it's called) would have gotten more rating if had those installed, I looked into it and it takes so long to recoup your money that it's not worth it.
a local company in Kent, great guys, i know my feed i tarif isn't the worst, it isn't thes best either, but i am £ neutral on a four bed house for my yearly gas and electric. though i use the dishwasher and clothes washer when the sun is shining, but here in kent, thatsmost of the time. :-)
I don’t agree with helping the environment try disposal of solar panels they will be the next plastic recycling headache. Their average life span is around 25 years. Think all the investing will go to wind generation. (edited)
The inverter is usually the weak point in a solar set up and often only guaranteed for 5 years (do check).
There are more powerful systems available for the same outlay eg. ebay.co.uk/itm…ile
It may relate to not only the money you save from your own usage but possibly the buy back selling into the national grid for the excess electricity?
Obviously reducing your outgoings by say £500/year makes you net £500 better off - but how much extra would you have to earn to net an extra £500 - making this more attractive to those with high taxable incomes.
While the return on investment in an appropriate location is unlikely to be worse than keeping your money in the bank or your cash under the mattress, the details of the actual 'deal' (cost, performance, tarrif and reliability) will make a big difference to how the long-term picture looks. (edited)
Estimated lifetime maintenance costs£1,450
Potential lifetime net benefit£803
wow, not. It's about time the muppets in charge actually worked on reducing costs of these systems.
They did at the beginning, with the Feed In Tariff, which made ROI very good. But then installers got greedy (as usual, they spoil it for everyone) and installation prices sky rocketed. And the government cut the Feed In Tariff to virtually nothing. So the ROI was very long.
Arn't those "deals" normally if you get the panels for free and don't own the energy that you produce?
The other things that goes against them is the amount of waste they produce. They're had to recycle, but they also very energy intensive to make, but also they don't just make them out of Sand, it has to be high quality silicon... mining that is really bad on the environment. When you weigh it all up, they're just not as good as everyone says, people just assume they're free energy, but they're not.
Would be happy to be proven wrong, solar is the way forward.
Couldn’t agree more. Should be compulsory for all new builds to have solar or wind or both!!!
Probably time the muppets in the street stopped voting for the muppets in charge first.
me too
Isn't there an issue that the fibre glass blades on wind turbines are not recyclable?
bloomberg.com/new…lls (edited)
EHIC: European Health Insurance Card
EPC: Energy Performance Certificate
The plastic is just one of the many issues they will soon unleash on the planet.
Assuming they've based it on energy prices increasing in the future. Still sketchy.
The £534 will be based on potential savings at today's electricity prices.
As electric is going up by over 1p per kWh each year they are presuming an average potential saving of £1000 per year over the 25 year period.
The reality is you will never hit any of these figures in the real world.
Add on 3 grand for a basic battery storage set up.
They should also promote tesla electricity storage batteries like they do in Australia.
95% of the glass can be recycled. 85% of the silicon can be recycled. Pretty much 100% of the metal can be recycled.
Solar is not only worth it for countries near the equator. I see 50% reduction in my bills.
Source on the recycling:
greenmatch.co.uk/blo…ing
They are supposed to degrade over years not suddenly stop working so if in 25/30 years time the output has degraded enough to make them useless, I will recycle them and replace them with new technology which is actually a job I am more that capable of doing, I only had they fitted professionally as it was the requirement of the feed in tariff. In 15 more years I will no longer get the FIT so can upgrade/change them as I want.
I fitted my solar thermal myself a year before my PV was fitted and that is also working as good as it did the day I installed it.
2011 was the end of the maximum feed in which gave me 25 years FIT which is tax free and index linked so an amazing deal but on the other hand it cost mw 11k to have it installed which today would only cost 4k. Although 2011 was the end of the best FIT, it went on for years after that reducing each year until it was gone.
The idea of the FIT payments was to bring down the cost of PV, make it mainstream and make it affordable without the need for government schemes, I personally believe that was achieved, 5 years before mine was fitted it would have cost 20k, even at what I paid it was not cost effective without a subsidy but now it really think it finally is.
I know I was lucky to hit the sweet spot but I had been planning for years and was waiting for that sweet spot when installation costs came down but before the FIT started reducing.
You can see that after almost 10 years I am seeing no degrading of performance at all, I will just have to see in another 15 years.
I'd actively prefer it over one without...
DM me, I work for a large solar installer (we don't install domestics so will not try and get you to buy from my company). I have solar on my house and saves me a fortune but I also realise solar is not suitable for everyone.
We got a 2.5kw array probably a touch earlier, totally worth it for us as the feed in tariff was better (we beat the deadline by about 3 weeks) it's already paid back, and is making us our gas and electricity roughly for the year.