Feed in tariff was a government things set up a long time ago, it was full of scams and most of the systems didn’t really work. Here are RenewSolar we can change that for you to make the solar work for you.
You may have read of 50% scam post a few days ago and it is here where you can make a big saving to get pay back from the initial costs if you have not already done so. and you get to keep the FIT payments the same.
There are a few ways in which you can make the FIT work for you and make it better, for the most part you will not want to spend more money and probably feel like its good money after bad. if you found FIT good and you get a higher payment then this may not apply to you, however you could still gain an advantage.
RETRO FIT.
Most installations were Grid tied and this means that all you make you send to the grid or use at the time you have solar production. You probably heard of “retro fit” but essentially all you do is add a “AC coupled inverter” and a battery. This then allows you to store power to use later when the suns down and you would normally pay peak rates.
The cost here is around £1,400
UPGRADE.
You cannot power upgrade a FIT installation, but you can upgrade the systems around it.
What the general upgrade is, is where you keep the fit system inverter, and swap out the solar panels to new panels. the fit gets the same power, but you then add a hybrid solar system with the battery.
The cost here is around £2,500
The upgrade works because it is likely that you have old solar panels between 150w and 260w, new panels around the same size today are around 450w, they also have gone from 12.5% to 22.7% efficiency.
When it comes to watt/ space you can see that you free up a lot of space for your upgrade.
While AC coupled is the lower cost option, it would suit most owners as the costs and return is shorter period. The math of this will depend on the rates you pay for power, but around 1.2 years would be about right. the catch here is that you would need to have approval to be able to install the systems and while we can do that for you, we cannot guarantee you can.
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