Domestic Solar PV Quotes 2024 - No PM requests - See Mod note post #1

There's a €50 off grant for BER cert also on the SEAI site:

Please note there is a €50 BER grant available which will only be paid to you on your first grant application.

Sadly this does not apply to new builds.

Is it not for your 1st BER test pertaining to a grant application?

That's gas, they must be watching here!

If electricity is cheaper, does that not mean that solar install is less competitive? The solar install will stay at the same fixed cost - but FIT will likely fall and your cost to buy the electricity from the grid is falling - so the panels payback time is getting longer?

Ah get you. You reckon it will force the suppliers to drop prices? I hope so - but when I got my EV charger in recently it was notable that all the suppliers are pretty much charging the same, I.e. no-one seems to be willing to undercut the others for some reason. I assume too that all the panel installers will moan and groan and they will put pressure on for more subsidies...

By the way. Can i ask:

1. What's the 8% cut referenced above?
2. What Bord Gais offering are you referring to?

Thanks!

Behind all the smoke and mirrors, I have just left SSE,

Day 33.30

Night 20.66

Standing charge 0.7781,

and went to Bord Gais

Day 27.59

Night 13.65

Standing charge 0.72.

All the above are before VAT.

SO BASICALLY 6cent PER UNIT FOR EVERY UNIT and EVERY DAY. On day rate that is over 25% and on night rate is almost 30% .All builds up

Now I know that Bord Gais are still screwing me, but I am a low user.

SSE rang me to get me to stay, but when I queried unit prices over day and night, and especially the standing charge, THEY hung up on me.

You have to be on your game, with all of them

Flogas Certa affinity flat rate, 23.44 inc vat, standing charge 70.5c/day (€257.38 pa).

https://www.flogas.ie/price-plans/certa-affinity-rate/?utm_source=Email

I've never seen a smart or day/night rate that worked out less based on my usage, which I've monitored for a couple of years on the smart meter. I've calculated the extra on day/peak rates wipes out the tiny night rate saving, and then some. I've not signed up to a smart rate as a result, and I was happy to stay on flat rate, while all the price hiatus was happening. Since the meter went in though, I've not been billed for two years, but my monthly level pay and the government freebies have accumulated as credit to more than cover it. Maybe the move to Flogas will sort it. Smart meter rollout a con, all stick and little carrot based on the rates. You'd need to cook and eat in the small hours to save a few cent.

I started searching for solar panels and I found the market very competitive. Some companies jumped down almost 2k in price when I mentioned I had better offers which obviously was a big No!

I have ended up with 10 x 440w panels, 5kW Sofar inverter net of 3.8K

Looking at getting 12 panels but now thinking 10 would be enough given that the inverter is 5kw and that's the most it can process, is it worth the extra grand to get 2 more panels?

Trying to navigate my way through a Solar installation and I’ve obtained two quotes so far. Looking for feedback if they are competitive

#1 - €6700

10 panel jingko 435 watt

Sigen Energy Controller Single Phase
5 kW of Inverter Power
Sigenergy
1 x SigenStor EC 5.0SP

Eco-Smart Energy Diverter
3.68 kW eco-smart energy diverter, 230V AC Single Phase, Rated Current - 16A, Standby Power Consumption - 3W

#2 - €6100

10 panels 435 watt jinko .4.5 kw.
5kw dyness battery,
Solis hybrid inverter,

Eddie Water diverter.

Quote #2 includes a battery, however, I’ve seen that this brand isn’t the best so unsure on that.

Also, through space issues with our ongoing extension, we would have to house the unit in the garage. Has anyone any experience of this?

Ta!

Thanks. My yearly usage is approximately 2600kWh and with my missus going on Mat leave from October that will increase.(neither of us work from home).

I'm just surprised at the difference in cost with the battery included. Makes me think its too good to be true 🤣

This is what you need. Should be some companies who do them here.

I won't pretend to know if that main roof is not feasible. But if it is, do you have another flat roof like an extension or large shed? I've 5 panels on a flat roof. Others here have a garden full. Some even did the ones in the garden before the main roof - unusual but hey!

Who'd be adding panels though? You'd surely install what you could, or what you need in one go on a given stretch of roof, especially if it has to be in-roof replacing the tiles rather than sitting on top. New builds save the cost of tiling, as you're tiling with panels, albeit in roof type, or standard type sat in specific in roof frames. You can panel to the edge too, for a visually neat finish, whereas you've to leave a margin on the grant spec installs, which always visually jars. There must be some in roof installs here somewhere.