I’m thinking of getting solar panels and a battery for our house.
What’s your setup like, and is there anything you wish you’d set up differently if you were going to install it again? What supplier are you with?
A company extremely local to us is offering 12x Aiko Energy panels (465 watt), with a Sunsynk 5 kW inverter and a 5.32kWh battery. Octopus Energy are offering a similar set up for a similar price, but they’re using 450 watt panels, so with using 12 panels I’d be potentially be losing 180 watts vs what the other company is offering. Is that a significant amount or would it basically not really amount to much additional power?
Are batteries ok in the roof? I thought the temperature variation up there would be too much for them?
(Lazy question without searching for the answer myself)
Current guidance does not allow installation in a roof space, and limits capacity to 40kWh in most houses (80 kWh in detached or separate garage). Guidance, not law iirc.
But they are so heavy I would not place them on ceiling joists, I’d want them on a concrete floor