Solar Panel Installation - Are we wasting our money by going against the grain with north facing?

I like the comment at the end about people dealing with people and not companies! You got a sub for that! ❤

Brilliant, I'm glad you took on board my previous suggestion to fill your roof and use tigos and multiple strings. If you can cover base load and peak use with solar generation, and at a later date use time shifted cheap energy( off peak charging) in batteries you'll be saving money for decades after the initial install cost. This will also add value to your home. I have a 6.8kwp solar system, and in late spring early summer I can generate 41kwhr a day. So next up, get a solar diverter so spare electrical energy heats your hot water. Then, when funds permit add a hess (batteries), then you'll be sorted. I recommend adding a modular system such as a 4.8kwhr Pylontrch US5000s, BUY one then add more each time you get spare wonger. For me, this has been your best content so far. Enjoy this renewable journey. It's great fun.

Good video, thanks for taking the time to produce and upload.

Great that you went with a local company.

That massive expanse of black glass looks great!

Your (bigger) NW array will produce twice as much as the SE. You did great covering all the meaningful space of the roof with panels. Let us know about the pv production in the next months. It will probably be in excess of 7.5 mwh annually

I'm thinking I'll move my current 400W jinko panels to the north side when they get older (10y+), then put new ones on the south. It should be a great boost to base load on the many overcast days we get in the UK.

Clean install there, rare to get a sub contactor working for a large firm doing a neat job. 👍

Great installation, nice to see you went with the sunsynk inverter. Batteries next! Zero vat on batteries now. Had to get all mine in one go to qualify for zero vat last year (ouch!)

Thanks for filming my system is being fitted three weeks time 18 x 425w panels over an East West with a 5kwh inverter and two 9.5 Battery's The only draw back I have had is despite the installer saying he has never had one turned down in ten years of fitting systems is the DNO was turned down to a limit of 3.68 so he cant say that anymore. But hay ho such is life looks like i will be heating my hot water when the system's hitting the export limit and the battery's are charged £400 more for an Iboost not sure if its worth it yet will give it some time running and see

Do not put background noise into your video, some of us cannot differentiate noises to hear speech.

It is great to see you finally go ahead with your solar and battery instal. I may have missed a video but curious of the total cost in the end. Also on your N facing panels if you checkout undecided with matt feral he did an episode on solar recently and he put a bunch of panels on his north roof and they performed really well because it was cooler by the time the sun hit them so this compensated to an extent dor the posistioning. The episode was about vertical pannels i think but he goes ona tangent.

Thank you for sharing your installation. It is a bit unique but every bit of energy counts in otherwise a useless roof aspect. That is a beast of an inverter well over specified as the PV setup is usually 120% more than the inverter capacity. 1. I guess you over specified it for future battery discharge and timed charging capability? 2. What did the DNO limit you to? 3. Interested to see your generation and Sunsynk app /software evaluation as there is very little of that about on YT.

In my opinion it was a good decision to fully panel your rear roof, panels are relatively cheap, its the scaffolding and labour which costs, so better to get it done in one go. I had our best roofs done in 2015 with 4kW of panels, last year I added another 4.74kW of panels to our detached double garage, along with an 8kW Victron invertor and 29 kWh of batteries. I have a large NW roof which I will likely put panels on this year, may even put some on the rear wall of our house which is SW facing. Have sat on my ridge many a time and it doesn't faze me, although I'm getting a little old for climbing around roof's! I'd be very interested to see how your NW roof performs, modelling shows I could get another 3 to 4 MWh a year adding the additional panels.

Ours is East - West and works really well. You just notice a bigger difference in generation Winter to Summer as you move away from South facing because of the low Winter sun.

I've had my panels in for nearly a fortnight, I'm seeing small savings because I had the gas ripped out so my heat pump is a bit more expensive to run than the gas but the panels are definitely making a difference. Cant wait to see how the numbers compare from mine and yours, but im doing my numbers by month and not by the week. :)

i used a local company for the same reasons you just said, they came to see me and go through everything instead of looking at things from images on a computer and trying to sell you something over the phone. your roof may not be the best facing but i would have gone down the same route, but to top things off i would look to add batteries as they make a massive difference to what your system will be capable of doing going forward.

Interested to see what the generation curve through the day looks like for the North West panels. I guess it will be quite a peak and shorter duration. But a great experiment!

Great Video, what sort of ballpark figure does this set you back?

Martin's doing our install next month, all the beauraucracy willing. We went with them for the same reason you mentioned in the video: a local person with thoughts and ideas and experience rather than a big company ticking boxes. If I'd known you were local I might've asked to come and talk over the tech decisions 😂