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  • #52
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,710 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    air wrote: »
    Edit - had a look on solartricity, 12kW of panels €4k, 6kW inverter €800

    Plenty of farmers with a steel shed like that would claim VAT back. If you can get the parts at a trade discount, a 12kWp system (mounting on steel shed is very cheap) would be under €4k in materials ex VAT

    And no maintenance required, no chance of damage / failure in a storm, lifetime of the panels is many decades

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  • #53
    graememk
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,284 Mod ✭✭✭✭graememk


    unkel wrote: »
    Plenty of farmers with a steel shed like that would claim VAT back. If you can get the parts at a trade discount, a 12kWp system (mounting on steel shed is very cheap) would be under €4k in materials ex VAT

    And no maintenance required, no chance of damage / failure in a storm, lifetime of the panels is many decades

    Neighbours are still skeptical of mine!, I am cautious until i have hard numbers - ie I have saved X amount this year - I will have the data to back that up too.

    Oh and solartricity wouldn't warranty 8.4kwp on a 6kw inverter, so there is only 7.2 on the roof. (referencing the 12kw on a 6kw inverter)


  • #54
    air
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭air


    Very few farmers are able to claim back VAT as I understand it, only commercial farms which are a minority.

    I agree that mounting on an existing trapezoidal steel roof is about the cheapest possible solution for PV.

    If ground mounting, a frame made from tubular galvanised steel is the most economical maintenance free option that I'm aware of.


  • #55
    graememk
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,284 Mod ✭✭✭✭graememk


    air wrote: »
    Very few farmers are able to claim back VAT as I understand it, only commercial farms which are a minority.

    I agree that mounting on an existing trapezoidal steel roof is about the cheapest possible solution for PV.

    Non registered "Flat rate" farms can claim vat back on Fixed Capital expenditures. ie anything bolted down. So new sheds, new fencing.. solar.

    Nearly all agri sheds are corrugated steel, none of this trapezoidal steel :P far too fancy.

    But you just get an adapter plate for the mount and stick it on & screw it down.


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