Is Solar Worth It? My experience of installing Solar Panels in the UK

[Music] thank you so the Diary of converting this house to solar panels many jobs have been done another one today is [Music] toilets basically prevents a vacuum for um for toilet that gets in the weather solar panels so we're going to have that lowered into the roof hopefully and a dirt go well fitted which will do pretty much the same thing [Music] and then you can see all the houses have them um it sets are there so there are other changes that have to be made to prep your house before the actual solar install could be made and this is part of it here I think it was two pole isolation switches now these are fitted free by your electricity company again you need to make sure you've got maybe the third generation of smart meters if you're planning to export some of your spare electricity back to the grid and this is what it'll look like after the work I think the role of these and forgive me if I got it wrong is that this allows you to isolate the roof from the power to the housing foreign [Music] time our solar system sunsinki is pretty much up and running um we're still waiting for one of the battery packs here to be connected but other than that it's working we're exporting spare power to back to the grid a little flashy uh green and red thing there is how it connects to the apps on my phone so you can see what it's doing but some isolator switches on the left and then you can have up to four these giant sunsing battery packs each roughly stores something like five kilowatt hours so with them both charged unless we're using tons of heating and Tumble drying that will run this house for about a day and a half the other thing you can do of course depend on your tariff is even if in the winter in the UK there's not enough solar power to charge these up you could go on to an economy 7 tariff with similar octopus energy charge up all your batteries at night while it's the third and all price of electricity and then during the day when it's full whack run the house on the batteries you won't even notice the difference foreign work both to the meters and the switching um you're definitely going to need to have Modern Gas and Electric Smart Meters that communicate with your electricity company and then you can have a few extra bits installed here next to your fuse box a little white box at the top that's a special thing that counts how many units of electricity have gone back to the grid you have to have special paperwork and get signed off in order to do that and get paid for that and most that is recorded via Smart Meters and your app but this is like a double check I suppose if anyone has to audit it they can see exactly what is going on would that meter you don't have to read it and then here in the Loft you'll find some of these red switches and basically their emergency switch off anything happen to your roof or someone's going to do some other work on there then you can isolate the batteries or you can isolate the roof panels because on a good day they are generating two and a half kilowatts of electricity per hour and even in the winter when it's not so Sunny you're still getting up to one kilowatt being made so they're live the other thing we thought was really important was to have bird mesh all around the edges a common thing you find when you speak to people who've got early solar panels is birds get stuck underneath or they fry underneath and short circuit it it's up to a thousand pound extra to have the grid of plastic put all around the edges but I think you're looking at a fairly long-term investment here so I think that's probably better than our poking out dead pigeons from the top of your roof so you will have to expect a fair bit of scaffolding before during and after the installation I leave it there for a bit to make sure everything's okay I'm running properly before it's removed so yeah if you don't like scaffolding tough love now sunny days have an added benefit that you make a bit of money and you save a bit of money roll on the sun I wish I lived in Florida I make a fortune depending on who your electrical supplier is you'll get a meter like this a smart meter this can monitor how much you're using and spending on your actual tariff on gas electric and then once you've got your solar up and running you can see you've got this extra little bit here which is basically showing your export into the grid it'll also change once you've had solar in that you'll get the wattage that the house is currently using but the cost per hour is obviously zero if you're running as we are at the moment from batteries or if it's during the day and your system is generating a couple of kilowatts of power you do get a really Matty app that goes on your phone and it's animated and it shows you where the power is going if it's being sold to the grid if it's going to top up the batteries or if it's powering your house lots of stacks as well on how many kilowatt hours you're generating it even has forecasts for the forthcoming weather which is very good as well and once you get more into this you can control us a bit more and again depending on your Tower if you could decide to force charge your batteries through the winter overnight by using something like an economy 7 tariff when the power may be a third of the normal price fill up your batteries and then run off them during the day when the price goes back to normal so I hope you found that useful please like share and subscribe and come back every day for a lot more fun here on mg Tracy and if you have any questions or concerns and want to find out if solar panels are for you drop me a message in the description box below and I'll come back to you as soon as I can see you soon [Music]

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Length: 6min 16sec (376 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 29 2022