Solar Panels Bath

Solar panel systems have a wide range of benefits that can grace your Bath home. The following is a rundown.

Slashed energy bills

The monthly energy bill in Bath is between £100 and £120, and the average solar panel installation has the capability of slashing this bill in half. This means that you can easily save around £650 a year on energy bills with this installation. Of course, buying and installing solar panels in Bath comes with an upfront cost. If you pay the average cost for solar panels, you can expect to make the money back through savings, between 11 – 16 years to break even. Considering that Solar Panels last for over 25 years, and Effective Homes grants a 25-year warranty, you could find yourself making back the costs in savings before the lifespan of the solar panels is halfway up.

That being said, it’s entirely possible for a basic setup to afford you 100% of your electricity free if you utilise solar batteries. Solar batteries either funnel all of their generated electricity into the home for use, or to the national grid through a SEG agreement.

Lowered carbon footprint

The use of fossil fuels to generate electricity since industrialisation has led to climate change, which has already shown a negative environmental impact, with worse to come if the course is not corrected. Many countries, including Britain, have come together during the Paris Climate Accord to come to a consensus about how we should generate energy moving forward, concerning climate change. This has resulted in many countries pledging to reduce their carbon footprint to a certain level, with Britain aiming to achieve net zero by 2050.

Solar PV panels generate the cheapest energy in the world, and better yet, their generation doesn’t result in carbon emissions. This sets them up as being the future of energy generation worldwide.

Full Independence from the National Grid

Being independent from the national grid is more than simply feeling in control of your home. By being able to generate electricity of your own, you are protected from the following:

• Energy cuts – Losing electricity to your home is disastrous, as so much of your machinery is now unusable, and some can be ruined – such as appliances requiring freezing or cooling.
• Rising energy bills – In 2021, Russia invaded Ukraine, something that not only captured worldwide attention but managed to affect the everyday lives of working-class people through energy price hikes. The geopolitical disaster incurred a trade embargo and sanctions that resulted in Britons paying over 50% for electricity from the national grid, as well as over 80% for gas. But when you install solar panels on your property, that’s where you draw your energy from, not the national grid – saving you from energy price hikes.

Boost To Property Value

High energy efficiency in a property is one of the most attractive aspects you can ask for. Ever since energy bills skyrocketed in 2021, homeowners have been looking for ways to reduce their energy bills. One of these ways is through installing measures that either increase how long you keep the heat you generate inside your house via insulation or boast cheaper and cleaner heat/electricity generation. This is called energy efficiency, and it’s graded by an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC).

EPC ratings go from A – G, with A being the most efficient, and they increase by a certain amount depending on what improvement you make to your home. One of those improvements is, of course, solar panels. Whilst it depends on the size of the solar panels, this can boost your rank by a rank or two.

Battery Management

Solar panels are great inventions in and of themselves – but their versatility and possible energy savings skyrocket when a battery is added to the setup. Normally, when a solar panel generates electricity it cannot be stored or used, it either wastes it or sells it to the national grid if you have a “smart export guarantee”. With a battery, however, you can store this energy for later – something that is much more economical.

To prove the point, take a look at the table below:

Whilst many have made a side income from generating electricity and selling it back to the national grid, it is more economical for people to simply store the electricity and use it later, as you can see from the table above. Effective Home has battery-integrated solar panels, meaning our setups come all-in-one without a need for separate battery installation jobs.