Does solar suit every house?

Do you have panels both east and west?

Im about to move into a west facing house and would consider it if there was any kind of decent payback time. Anything for energy independence.

350 a year over 10 years and the rest is profit for the next 15 years.

Got 6.6kw today. Winter was around 2kw a day

Everyone's value system will be different, a 10 year payback for one person would be too long and yet for another person be totally fine.

What I can say is that unless your a real outlier, there's a solar configuration where you'll get a decent return on investment. I've a East/West split myself and with 5.3Kwp in panels, the forecasted yield for the array that I have is 291 Kwhr for March. In fact the expected yield for my installation is....

So from March to Sept, your average household should be fairly well covered. Winter as you can note (Nov-Feb) it's not great. For that you'd need south facing panel.

Apr - Jun you could plug in your EV via the "granny-cable" and put 10Kwhr into it a day easy enough. I don't have an EV, but I'm sure the EV owners on the forums would tell you how feasible that is. I mention this as you were worried about the expenditure of a new charger. I don't think you do need one.

Most systems would pay for themselves (at the current electricity rates) in 10-12 years. After that of course your "quid's in", where it's saving you €500-750 a year. Sometimes payback is less, if your a heavy user. Of course if electricity rates rise (probably likely!) then your payback again would be shorter.

Typical installation that I think is "a good start" for an EV owner would be 5Kwp in panels and 5Kwhr battery. Probably about €8k after the grant taken off.

if the financials are any way important to you I think that statement would rule you out.

with what you’ve described you’ll be lucky to break even.

if you’re looking at environmental and happy to pay it forward for the next owner then maybe worth considering. It will certainly make the house more sellable!

I have 2.5kW from them, 7 panels which I have about 16months or so. We pay €19.99 per month but their prices have increased since (although the system they give you now is also bigger).

Appreciate if. someone would PM me the name of the "solar as a sevice" company mentioned here.

Sent a pm to you both

Can you send me a PM with that info please?

If you are not fairly sure you are going to be in the house longer term and / or you can't do the install mostly DIY (with well bought parts), then I wouldn't do it.

Also, if you already have an EV charge point then DO NOT replace it with a smart charge point so you can charge your car with excess solar. Particularly not if you are not going to install a big array and / or your car isn't at home plugged in a lot. This upgrade will never pay for itself