Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[bluekarin]

Just seen an ad for this company and had a look at their website. Apparently, if you have a 'perfect' roof you might be eligible for free solar panels and their installation! Sounds a bit too good to be true to me so thought I'd ask the Omletpedia as there is always a wealth of information and knowledge It would be marvellous if this isn't too good to be true as we'd have it done in a flash

[Griffin]

Ooooooo Jeremy Vine had a good discussion on solar panels on his show on Radio 2 on Friday. I expect it might still be online for you to listen to.

[Egluntyne]

I think the catch is that the electricity produced by them can't be stored, and so is fed back somehow into the national grid, so during the hours of darkness, you still have to buy electricity from your suppler. Or something like that.

[bluekarin]

That'll be it. It says you use the electricity the panels produce first and when its dark or not sunny enough you use the stuff from you usual supplier. But to quote a well known company 'every little helps' I shall look into this more, starting by listening to Jeremy Vines show - but that will be tomorrow.

[Bramble]

Hello! Funny you should post about this now, I was going to post today about any experience other Omleteers have of solar panels. I'd love to have them installed but like you, tend to think that the freebie ones sound a bit too good to be true. Does anyone out there have any experience of solar panels, the fitting (and cost of fitting) please?

Thanks! (sorry to hijack your post bluekarin!)

[Charlottechicken]

From what I have read about these deals is they get any profit from selling the unused electricity back to the National Grid. You get free electric if it is available, and the system is yours after so many years (25 I think?) so will probably need updating at that point.

[kevtheplumber]

ok let me start here, there are 2 completely differant types of solar,

 

1 solar thermal which uses a fluid and vacuum to heat hot water

 

2 pv that produces electric,

 

the pv installer as mentioned earlier dont really give a true figure, they offer free panels and yes you get the free electric but what they get is the 43p per kw that that unit produces via the micro generation scheme. If you have the money and think you will be staying somewhere long enough id get it done off your own back as you will be generating roughly £2-3k per year ( you can see why they want to put it everywhere) of electric which is paid directly to you. Solar thermal will be available for pay incentives from april 2011 under the Rhi.