Buying A Solar Panel Part 4

Well, we've had our quotes for the work and we've put down our deposit. The guy we saw seemed to be very good and answered all our questions, no matter how technical.

In the end, we settled on a 12 panel system which will give us 18 Sq. metres generating 2.82 kWp. In other words, on a nice sunny day it will generate 2.82 kW per hour. Enough to power 47 60W lightbulbs.

This should give us a return of £1090 a year and will cut 1.17 tonnes off our carbon footprint.

The fitters have guaranteed the panels will be up and running well before the December 12th deadline (See previous post) or we get our deposit back. Let's hope they succeed - I'm looking forward to seeing how these things perform!