If you are a homeowner looking to improve your property by installing a solar panel system on your home, you can find the main benefits of solar panels and why you should install them on your home within in this article.
Saving Money
The main reason why most people have solar panels installed at their property is the money savings aspect of solar energy. Having a typical 10-panel system on your property can generate you 3600 kWh of electricity per year. The average home in the UK uses around 3200 kWh per year so this means you could potentially generate more electricity than you need. Any excess energy you do not consume in your property will then be sent to the national grid where you will in turn be paid for any of the energy under the SEG payment scheme. Solar panels can help reduce your electricity bills by up to 90% by having them installed on your home and with the 25-30 year warranty that panels come with you can rest assured they will be saving you money for a long time too.
Increase the Property Value
Energy efficiency is a big thing these compared to in the past and every appliance has little energy efficiency stickers all over it telling you how much energy it uses and how efficient it is. This is the same as your property and this is called an EPC certificate you can find if you have an EPC certificate at the government site "find my energy certificate". Having solar installed on your property will increase the EPC rating of your home which can in turn increase the value of a home. Studies are starting to show that having solar installed on your home can increase its value by around 4%.
More Desirable Property
With solar panels improving the EPC rating of your home and making the property much cheaper to run overall for the future having solar panels installed will make your property more desirable. Over the last 4 years estate agents have noticed that if given a choice 67% of potential buyers would rather buy a house that already has solar panels installed.
Low Maintenance Costs
Solar panel systems do not require a lot of maintenance due to the fact they do not have moving parts and its primary an electrical system, you may have to replace certain parts over the lifetime of the system but you will not need to perform annual maintenance on the system.
The only maintenance you may need is to get your solar panels cleaned every now and then but this does depend on where you live and is very situational.
Protect Your Self From Future Energy Price Increases
As we all know every year the price of electricity increase in October 2024 the price of electricity is increasing by 9% which is a common theme with our energy providers. Solar panels are one of the best way of helping to protect yourself from ever increasing utility bills. The longer you have solar panels on your the more and more you save as every year when the price of utility increase you would effectively be saving more and more money.
Solar Panels Lower Carbon Emissions
Solar panels help produce electricity and will massively lower the carbon emission that your home produces. So not only will you be helping your bank account but you will also be helping towards saving the planet for future generations. Typically a 16 panel system will save around 2000Kg of CO2 per year which is equivalent of driving your car 10,000 Km.
Overview of the Benefits of Solar Panels
So as you can see there are plenty of reasons to get solar panels for your home if you are looking at getting a quite for solar panels at Eve Renewables we are currently offering free bird proofing with every install so please contact us.