subject: Solar Panels Cost - Is there an Ongoing Price? [print this page] Solar Panels Cost - Is there an Ongoing Price?
Trying to save the environment is hard. Running around your home, switching off all the lights, unplugging mobile phone chargers, turning down the heating to uncomfortable levels, waiting until there's no food left in the fridge before you go shopping, and so on. Each of these changes in very small, and won't make much difference. In order for your home to make a real difference, you need to make many of these changes to lead to any significant difference.
How else could you save the environment, preferably in your pyjamas without getting up from the couch?
Solar panels for your home! Solar panels cost nothing to run. There is no routine maintenance. They are commonly referred to as 'Fit and Forget' technology. All you need to remember is to be smug that you're making a huge difference to the environment.
Rather than turn off 5 rooms of lights, you could constantly be saving around 50% of your carbon dioxide emissions through the fact that your energy is coming from a renewable source. Solar panels cost you no time each week to make sure they're working. If you like, you can watch your electricity meter running backwards, or you could just wait until you get paid by your electricity provider for the electricity that you can sell back to the main grid.
Solar panels cost a negative amount to run - you'll make money! You can get paid through the Feed in Tariff or Renewable Heat Incentive schemes that are available nationwide in the UK, and range from 450 to 1,500 per year, tax free and guaranteed for 20-25 years depending on the precise kind of panels that you install. The average system will pay itself off within 9 years. Solar panels cost different amounts for different houses - click to get three free prices.
