In spite of the fact that many home owners of Solar Energy Panels may well want to take advantage of the financial benefits such as the feed-in tariff, they must have the site connected to the national grid to enable them to distribute excess electricity produced by the Solar Energy Panels installation. There may well be situations where a site does not have a connection to the national grid, such as difficult to access areas, where the domestic customer has to use oil or petrol driven generators for elctric supply. But the householders may want to switch to Solar Energy Panels in order to save costs on fuel, which may be substantial in difficult to access areas.
The Solar Energy Prices for fixing of the Solar Energy Panels can be in the order of ?12,000 for a typical domestic site and the Solar Energy Prices, earned by the feed-in tariff can be in the order of ?500 to ?800 per year, and of course, any electricity that the Solar Energy Panels generate is free. Clearly the independent Solar Energy Panels installation would not be able to provide the Solar Energy Prices benefits. In order to recover as much of the electricity produced, a battery storage system is essential so that excess electricity can be stored for consumption when required, which would clearly, add to the Solar Energy Prices total.
While the case for independent Solar Energy Panels in difficult to access areas may be rather worthwhile, for householders in areas served by the national grid, a Solar Energy Panels installation may well need to be rather large to be able to supply enough electricity to satisfy the needs of a household. Clearly if the domestic customer wanted to also add battery storage functionality, then this would add to the Solar Energy Prices to be paid. It would take a determined individual to go for a independent Solar Energy Panels installation in a case like this, where the Solar Energy Prices to be paid may well be much more in excess of the ?12,000, and with no feed-in tariff available to offset the Solar Energy Prices, it may well be a long time before any benefits were seen.