Solar battery storage is a reliable, emerging, and exciting technology which has been gaining greater popularity year on year here in Britain.

Why? As energy prices go up year after year, more and more UK homeowners are looking for ways to significantly reduce their electricity and energy costs permanently.

It’s no wonder. It’s never been more expensive to heat and light our homes.

For some, the answer to saving money comes by changing suppliers. In 2017 according to Energy UK, a record five-and-a-half million UK households switched to different utilities providers, saving an average of £250 a year.

Free solar panels – surely they’re all free anyway because the money you make from them over 25 years is more than the money you’ll outlaid?

Yes that’s true. However, many people really do want to have a solar panel system installed on their properties but it’s the upfront cost that puts them off. You eventually make your money back and a little on top.

If that’s your situation, is there any solar panel funding available? What about for your business?

What can you do to get the solar panel system you want for your property? Is there a local solar scheme in your area?

Solar roof tiles provide homeowners with the chance to benefit from the savings that can be made with solar panels but who don’t want traditional solar panels on their roofs.

There are advantages and disadvantages to choosing solar tiles over solar panels. The average solar panel installation is a 3kW system costing £4,000-£6,000. Replace solar panels with solar tiles and you’re looking at a cost of £10,000-£12,000 instead. Is it worth the difference?

In this article, we’ll look at:

• how solar tiles work,
• what they cost,
• what sort of money you can save by using them, and

Solar panel systems for your property starts at around £1,500 for a smaller system. The most advanced systems using the latest technology fitted to larger residential roofs may cost from £8,000 upwards. Although it’s still expensive, you would have had to pay at least double those prices as little as five or six years ago.

The cost of solar panels for homes has fallen for many consecutive years. Through a combination of massive government and private investment, increasing worldwide demand from consumers, and intense competition between manufacturers, homeowners keen to save money on their electricity bills and to help the environment have benefited greatly from the steep falls in price since 2010.