Every cloud has a silver lining…

Don’t we just love a sunny day? Especially in this British climate of not knowing what to expect from one day to the next! I can see non-solar folk wondering how anyone actually achieves a decent payback of a solar investment in Britain. Well, let me explain.

It’s a fairly well known fact that on a sunny day, PV solar panels really comes into their own. Smart energy owners happily look out the window as the sun beams down…and then to the app on their phone to see how that glorious sunshine is creating all the solar energy they can use. They begin dreaming of how they could become free from the National Grid all together and the extortionate per KWh energy prices we all pay these days.

Ask an owner of a solar panel system to show you what’s getting them all excited and they’ll show you graph with a high spike depicting all that energy that is being consumed by their washing machine, electric vehicle whilst still filling up their energy storage battery, or even possibly being exported to the Grid and making them a few pence.

But, what they don’t always share with you (or perhaps they don’t necessarily know themselves) is what happens on a dull cloudy day when good old Blighty has rain, hail or any other weather front we’ve already seen during the Spring of 2024. You see, whilst the spring and summer months tends to bring higher levels of sunshine, it is certain to bring us more hours of daylight, which means there’s less pressure and more time to capture solar energy.

Fortunately, modern PV manufacturers continue to improve the panels’ technology so they are designed to capture diffused sunlight, which occurs when sunlight scatters in the atmosphere and reaches the Earth’s surface even on cloudy days. So whether it’s Cumulus, Cirrus or Stratus in the way, most properties still produce a decent amount solar energy between April and September.

When we create a desktop survey for customers, we use special software that accounts for the average sunlight each month based on a number of factors including the direction the panels will face. We always err on the side of caution so that customers get a true reflection on the time period in which the installation will payback. We’re creating more resources to help customers who are thinking about installing solar panels. Why not sign up for this pack and receive it first?

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