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Home solar energy or solar power is one of the best investments a home owner can make. Find out why below
How I Will Benefit From Solar Power?
Reducing Energy Costs
Generating your own solar power saves money on energy bills. After the solar energy system has paid for itself the electricity is virtually free, invest or spend the money on things you want to do.
Low Cost Energy Future
When you install a home solar energy system you are fixing low energy prices for lifetime of the system and giving yourself peace of mind knowing the price you will pay into the future.
Other Benefits Of Solar Power
As cars go electric, why not use the free power from the sun to power that as well, no more expensive fuel. Also houses with solar are seeing higher values as the benefits of solar as seen by more people.
Protecting The Environment
Unlike fossil fuel generated electricity, producing your own solar energy has little ongoing environmental impact both for the atmosphere and surrounding environment.
Saving Resources For Future Generations
As solar power is not dependent on using resources continuously to keep the power flowing, having solar reduces natural resource cost too, preserving for future generations.
A Good Investment
Solar energy provides a better return on investment than savings or investments do, due to the savings made and the money released to use for other things.
Solar energy has become the fastest growing energy source worldwide as home owners and businesses look to reduce their ever growing energy costs and protect themselves from the uncertain fluctuating energy markets. With prices of solar energy systems falling to their lowest point ever, solar energy has become one of the most cost effective investments home owners can make to protect their future.
Financial Benefits Of Solar Panels
One of the main reasons, if not the primary reason for many, for installing solar panels is the straight forward reduction in energy costs. Solar power has an equivalent energy price of less than a third of grid supplied energy. The price is set when you install the system giving long term stable, secure and fixed price energy. Considering the price of electricity has risen 333% over the last twenty years, would you prefer to pay 2004 prices or today’s prices?
Find out more about the financial benefits – How Does Solar Energy Save Me Money? and Protecting Against Energy Price Increases.
What would you do with the extra money?
Environmental Benefits
The other primary reason for installing solar energy at home are the environmental benefits. Human effects on the climate is only part of the story. Continuing to burn fuel for energy also adds to the surrounding environmental issues with pollutants entering the water system and food chain affecting all life including humans. Then there is the unnecessary additional environmental effects of moving the fuel to be used, also pushing up prices to businesses as well as consumers.
Solar panels enormously reduce this, being zero emission generation, having very little effect on the surrounding environment and generating energy for use locally cutting the demand for heavy infrastructure to move the energy around.
What Is A solar Battery And Do I Need One?
A solar battery is a battery in your solar energy system that stores the energy produced by your solar panels when you cannot use it in the home.
Combined with solar panels, a solar battery means you can time shift your energy production in the day to correspond with your energy use mainly in the evening and early morning. This saves you money faster as electricity coming from the grid is almost always more expensive than exporting excess electricity to the grid. A double benefit is in the low generation winter months a battery can be charged at night using low cost electricity to be used in the home at times when electricity prices are more expensive.
Batteries can also act as back up power when the supply from the grid is interrupted in a power cut.
Making Best Use Of The Solar Power
The best use solar power is to use it yourself and not have to buy electricity from an electricity supplier after exporting the excess to the grid. An ideal use of solar power is to charge the large batteries on electric cars. If you are swapping to an EV then double savings as not only the electricity but the reduction from garage fuel costs as well. And when your system is paid off then EV charging is free powered by sunlight!
If this is of interest please let us know when quoting as we can install an intelligent system that can control how the solar power flows within the home – charging the car or battery, or exporting the power you are not using in the home to earn money under the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) scheme.
Financing Solar Panels / Solar Energy Systems
While some home owners pay for a solar energy system from savings, many use finance to pay for solar energy. There are several options from traditional hire purchase to Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).
PPAs allow a company to install solar panels etc and then the home owner agrees to buy the energy generated by the system over a number of years. The advantage is no upfront costs or other costs and you buy electricity a known price over the period of the contract.
If you are financing a solar power system, it is important to check the payback period with the additional interest that will have to paid from solar generation.
