Solar Panel Health Check in Stapleford

This customer had 16 solar panels installed in 2011 and was still paying £158 on their electric bill every month. In a year they will be paying £1896.00 and over 10 years not even factoring the increase in energy bills and inflations the figure would rise to over £18960.00.

It was obvious that something was fundamentally wrong when visiting the client and discovering their high electric bill especially since the residents were elderly and just three of them living in the property.

The annual usage of electricity was found to be 10493 KWh and the unit rate of electricity was 13.685 p KWh. The client paid £6000 for the installation in 2011 and £3000 to install solar thermodynamics for the hot water. Unfortunately the company has since gone into liquidation.

We were determined to unearth this high electric bill mystery. It was likely the solar panels were not installed properly, the micro inverters were not functioning or the electricity is been tapped by an unknown source.

The health check indicated there was no battery storage system, the roof is east-west facing which warrants balancing the solar panels on two arrays. The orientation of the installed panel was 89 degrees on the east facing roof. The west facing roof had enough space to accommodate another 16 solar PV panels to capture the sun set in the evening but had none installed.

It became apparent that the installation was poorly executed.

Our recommendation, was a complete inspection of the solar panel systems to ascertain the effectiveness of the inverter and the affect of shading factors on the system. A Solar Edge inverter, battery storage system and installing more Solar PV Panels on the west facing roof will increase the electricity generated.

No doubt the consumer electric monthly electric bills will be reduced and can begin to save money for more holidays.

We are coming across more and more customers that have previously installed Solar Panels by companies that were not experts and are finding their installations were incorrectly completed. There is also more advanced technology now available to optimise their energy and as a result reduce electricity bills even more.

If you want a Solar Panel Health Check, complete our Callback Request Form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.