Domestic Solar PV Quotes 2022 - No PM requests - See Mod note post #1

Three quotes I received in Galway, for an E/W split:

1) 16x Recom Panels (6.7kw), 5.5kw Solis Inverter, 5.3kw Waco battery, Eddi: €13,300 ( €10,800 after grant) BER not included ( €2,500 less without battery)

2) 18 x Jinko panels ( 7.74kw), Huawei inverter, Eddi €11,800 (€9,400 after grant) BER not inckuded

3) 16x Bisol panels (6.4kw), Alpha 5kw inverter, Eddi, 10.1kw Alpha battery.€14,650 ( €12,250 after grant)

Is the battery a good option to have?

Thanks,

What kind of price you think i should be paying for 12 panels, not much difference in last few quotes, have things just got crazy lately. Anyone around Clare, Galway, limerick recommend someone decent.

What do you make of the quote below seems to be a lot more competitive anyway.

Modules- 430w Jinko panels with 25-year product warranty and 30-year linear power warranty.

10 x 430w Jinko panels Monocrystalline = 4.3kwp system

Inverter –Solis 5kw hybrid

1x 5kw Solis inverter with wifi dongle

Mounting Kit- Renosol ground mount

As Required

Check Meter-

1x check meter

Scaffolding

As required

All required Electrical Work

1x DC ISOLATOR

1x AC ISOLATOR

1x Fireman switch

Batteries- Dyness

1 x 5.1kwh Dyness battery

Solar Switch- for heating hot water through the solar panels with surplus power

N/A (Have solar tubes already)

All required Paperwork for commissioning the system

Included

Customer to get own BER post Install

Solar PV Grand Total (Zero rate VAT) €9,824.00

Deposit - €2,000.00

SEAI grant allowance- €2,400.00

(Customer to apply initially)

Balance- €5,424.00

This whole business is a Rip Off operation spurred on by the Grant (We would be better off without the grants).

I am looking for 11 Panels and a Hybrid Inverter (just in case I go for a battery down the road); I do not think that people should go for a Diverter as you can always switch the immersion on and off; alternative types of battery should be cheaper in the long run.

At the moment I have 27 quotes ranging from 6,500 to 10,200; I ignore the Grant because this is what you will be handing over to the Installers.

An average quote is around 8,500; and I am now looking closely at those between 6,500 and 7,500 (in due course I will detail here).

The Ideal Homes Show which is Free is on in the RDS Dublin this weekend and 18 Solar PV Installers are included amongst the Exhibitors.

I intend to put these people through their paces and I recommend others to do so as well.

The value of the grant for this size array would be 2400. Using the rule of thumb of €1000 per kW of panels, €420 per kWh of battery, that should be about €6880 for that system (after grant). That's a fantastic quote, go for it!

Have been given 2 more quotes: (We are an under average use household currently (~3500kWh a year)

Quote 1:

• 5.64kW system
• 12 x 470w Jinko Solar Tiger Neo panels
• 1 Hybrid Inverter 4Kw (Sofar solar)
• 1 Battery 5kW (Sofarsolar)
• 4 optimisers.
• They are offering immersion switch timer instead of EDDI (for "free")
• Covering the BER

Cost without battery: 13,300 - 2,400 = 10,900 cost to me (expensive battery!)

Cost with battery: 10,350 - 2,400 = 7,950 cost to me.

Quote 2:

• 4.3kW system
• 10 x 430w Jinko Black Solar panels
• 1 Hybrid Inverter & battery 5kW (livoltek)
  • Never been offered all-in-one before.
• Covering the BER and NC6 application

Cost: 9,847 - 2,400 = 7,447 cost to me

Provided a nice fancy spreadsheet where they estimated i could save 1900kWh a year

That second quote , Wow !

Latest quote i got, strange battery is adding so much to it

The ECO PREMIUM PACK will include the following: 

•   10 x 400w panels 

•   Hybrid inverter 

•   5kwh battery storage 

•   Roof mounting equipment 

•   All labour works

•   All electrical testing and commissioning 

•   Online monitoring to see each day exactly what your system is producing

•   BER 

RRP

€ 11,700.00 Cost. 0% VAT Offer

€ 2,400.00 SEAI Grant

€ 9,300.00 Final Cost to Customer.

🎃Halloween Discount €1000 - reducing your final price to €8,300👻

The ECO PLUS PACK will include the following:

•   10 x 400w panels 

•   Hybrid inverter 

•   Roof mounting equipment 

•   All labour works

•   All electrical testing and commissioning 

•   Online monitoring to see each day exactly what your system is producing

•   BER

RRP

€  7,700.00     Cost. 0% VAT Offer

€ 2,400.00     SEAI Grant

€ 5,300.00     Final Cost.

 🎃Halloween Discount €500 - reducing your final price to €4,800 👻

I have listed all the makes of the equipment we use bellow:

Hybrid Inverter: Solis

Battery 5kw: Pure Drive

Panels: Leapton, plain black, monocrystalline silicon cells

Enter the quote here http://davidhunt.ie/solar/

The value of the grant for this size array would be 2400. Using the rule of thumb of €1000 per kW of panels, €420 per kWh of battery, that should be about €6526 for that system (after grant). That's a fantastic quote, go for it!

davidhunt.ie/solar

The Quote that I am looking for is for 11 Panels and a Hybrid Inverter.

All prices in Euro and BEFORE grant

At Self Build in Belfast I got:

6,500 JAM 425, 5K Givenergy hybrid inverter Gen 3 and including BER

7,000 Jinko 435w and 5K Solis hybrid inverter

Today at Ideal Homes in Dublin I got quotes up to 13,500

6,300 Jinko 435w or Bauer, Solis or Sofar hybrid inverter and including BER

6,500 Trina 415w, Solis hybrid inverter, and including BER

Getting panels installed by a company and its taking quite the while.

On the day of the panel install they said we need a "tails upgrade".

It then takes three weeks for them to come out to do that.

When they eventually get here they look at the fuse box and say "we can't do the tails upgrade without the ESB on site". (even though I asked them if the ESB needed to be here when they do that)

So that day they "submitted their cert" to Safe Electric and "have to wait up to two weeks" for them to give us the all clear to call the ESB to schedule a call out.

Am I being spun a yarn or is that the process?

Almost six weeks since they put the panels on the roof now.

Thanks

M

Anything to do with the meter has to be done by ESB networks. It is an offence for an electrician to break the seal.

ESB networks will only do works on the meter, if the house is up to code and they have a SAFE cert.

Related advice: when they are doing the job; don’t let them run the new tails directly from the meter to the consumer unit. You will have no way of safely totally isolating your unit indoors. Make sure they install an additional dual pole rotary isolation switch and also an MCB inline on the live.

it should look like this:

The smaller the system the more expensive it seems. Fixed costs like 2x installers, scaffolding/hoist etc, cost the same for a 4.3 system as they do for a 14.3 system.

Huawei items are expensive and limit you to their or LG batteries

Is EDDI really needed?. Compare cost of heating now.

The 1 x SUN2000-4KTL-L1 is a hybrid inverter suitable for battery useage, a non-hybrid is a few hundred cheaper