This is certainly a good question seeing that the poor financial climate is still lingering and maybe householders are investigating quick options to saving money. It’s a shame but solar energy panels, like most other renewable energy answers do not produce excellent short term payback, but instead are a long term reward choice. So it depends on the perspective of the householder as to whether the solar energy prices in the region of £12,000 for a usual domestic solar energy panels package, is something they can live with. The usual reward period for this solar energy panels package is approximately 10 to 12 years, but with an estimated lifetime in the region of 45 years, once the solar energy prices have been earned, the householder is then making all free energy. In fact the energy that is made by the solar energy panels can be considered as free from the start, it just depends on how the solar energy prices are taken into account.
The package of solar energy panels might in fact be a spur to the householder to take a eco-positive viewpoint on their energy need patterns and one aspect that can be checked up on easily is that of machines. The Energy Trust web site has reviews of high efficiency machines, so maybe with these along with some energy saving practices the householder might be able to save more money. Naturally this might well add more expense on top of the solar energy prices already paid, but in the long run these energy saving machines should also be reliable and long lasting and so might well also be good long term purchases.
The usual solar energy panels package is estimated to be able to generate approximately 40% of the usual families’ energy demands, but with the energy saving machines as well, this percentage must improve. This in itself might well give the householder some sense of achievement in cutting their energy bills by approximately 40%, and then saving even more by cutting their energy need. In addition, the householder will receive credits via the feed-in tariff for energy made by their solar energy panels and also for any unused energy that gets exported back to the grid via their utility supply enterprise.
