The benefits of solar electricity
- Cut your carbon footprint: solar electricity is green, renewables energy and doesn't release any harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) or other pollutants. A typical home PV system could save around 1200 kg of CO2 per year - that's around 30 tonnes over its lifetime.
- Cut your electricity bills: sunlight is free, so once you've paid for the initial installation your electricity costs will be greatly reduced. A typical home PV system can produce around 40% of the electricity a household uses in a year.
- Sell electricity back to the Grid: if your system is producing more electricity than you need, or when you can't use it, someone else can use it - and you could make a bit of money.
- Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels convert sunlight directly into electricity that can be used for normal household consumption. All you require is a south facing roof with at least 10m2 of free unobstructed roof space.
- So the average house hold could earn on a 2Kw system around £900 per year!! this is acheived by use of the feed in tariff opposite, basically the government pay you to create and use your own electricity. You can also earn 4p extra per Kw you sell back to the Grid.
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Solar photovoltaic (PV) <4kW (new build) 36.1p |
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| Solar photovoltaic (PV) <4kW (retrofit) 41.3p |
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| Solar photovoltaic (PV) 4-10kW 36.1p
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