Photovoltaic solar panels now can provide potential savings and incentives for almost any size home to be able to benefit from. This is due to PV solar panels becoming cheaper to manufacture and the launch of the government feed in tariff scheme that now provides financial incentives aimed at encouraging home owners to invest in renewable and sustainable home energy sources such as solar energy.

Top 3 benefits of PV solar panels
• Free electricity
• Government guaranteed Feed in tariff - Tax free income over 25 years
• Guaranteed protection against increasing energy prices


PV solar panels provide one of the best options for a sustainable and renewable source of energy for our homes.

How efficient are Photovoltaic solar panels

Modern photovoltaic solar panels have increased considerably in efficiency. Photovoltaic cells can now convert around 20% of the suns energy into electricity; future PV solar panels are expected to convert 40% of the suns energy into electricity for our homes.

PV solar panels of a size 1.4 m2 over an 8 hour period will generate between 360 to 400 watts of electricity. Solar Panel installers will often recommend installing on an average house up to eight PV solar panels, each generating a total 2.8 to 3.2 kWh and that’s a lot of electricity totally free for one household to use.

How are Photovoltaic solar panels fitted to your roof?

PV solar panel installers use strong fixings called schuco roof anchors. These anchors are fixed very simply by exposing the rafters underneath the tiles. Once the anchors are set at the correct positions stainless steel mounting rails are then fixed onto the anchors to support the Photovoltaic solar panels.
The Photovoltaic solar panels are then secured to the mounting rails and positioned by the solar panel installers leaving a 50mm gap between the roof surface and the solar panels, this allows for air flow and ventilation to occur correctly avoiding the pv solar panels from becoming overheated.
Finally once fitted the Photovoltaic solar panels are then wired up using a special DC armoured cable and connected to an inverter which converts the DC current to 240 V AC. A electrical management metering system is also installed to record the free electricity generated.