Customer wants options on upgrade

[ShaunCorbs]

Yes with a pv system depending on space you might be able to get a decent set of panels on the roof

I’m removing a few water solar system this year tubes have blown and systems arnt doing what the owners want etc

Had ours from 2017 saved 12 tons of carbon from elec production and added 33 trees

If it was straight back to the grid around 3k would of been paid on a 3 kw system

Total yield over that time 11.95 mwh

And upto 81kwh this year

 

[Riley]

Cool thanks mate. Least I can speak sense now

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Big selling point I think on a decent installer system is no maintenance other than washing the panels twice a year which is easy or most window cleaners do it now

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Good article

Heating Your Water With Solar PV | Solar Power Diverters Explained

A Solar Power Diverter or Immersion Diverter, diverts your surplus Solar energy from your Solar PV Panels into heating your Water.

www.deegesolar.co.uk

 

[Murdoch]

Yes to the above but if you have a combi boiler it’s a non starter.

New homes need pv panels and hot water tanks.

 

[Riley]

Doesn’t have to be a combi as they have a cylinder

 

[Chuck]

So could we conceivably Have both??

You'd need to do your costing and ROI calculations quite carefully in this case. Two half-sized systems are going to be more costly to install and maintain than one full sized one.

My preference, for what it's worth, is for PV. The flaw with water-solar is that they produce loads of hot water in the summer when you need it least. Electricity, on the other hand, is useful all year round.

 

[king of pipes]

The other option would be thermodynamics to heat the hot water and PV to back it up and produce electricity to run the system it can have battery backup? or feed back into the grid for payback plenty of info on YouTube. Kop

 

[Riley]

Thank you all some really interesting ideas to put back to my cust. Can always rely on you lot