Free Solar Electricity & Installation for existing Scottish Hydro customers

sirmarcus

Go to http://www.hydro.co.uk/BeingGreen/Mi...ables/SolarPV/

If you're an existing customer, you will get everything you need to start creating free solar electricity. At no cost to you, you’ll get a fully installed and maintained Solar PV system completely free.

You can then start saving money by generating and using your own electricity. That means you could save an average of £230 a year on your annual bill.

• Free Solar PV system
• Free installation
• Use the electricity you make to save money
• Free maintenance and insurance for 25 years.

HappyMJ

£230 per year is quite a bit over estimated. Even by there own disclaimer the average system will generate 1998kwh of electricity and it is estimated that 50% is used on site and at 13p/kwh that would add up to £130 per year not £230 as they are claiming.

Cardew

You should read the threads on the 'rent a roof' scheme.

That is a disgraceful advert and(as they intend) you have been misled about saving an average of £230 on your annual bill. What it actually states is:

A typical three bedroom house is likely to be suitable for a ten panel Solar PV system (2.35kWp) - which would normally require a initial outlay of around £10,000 if the customer installed the panels themselves. Assuming 50% of the free electricity generated by such as system is used by the customer, a typical standard credit Scottish Hydro customer could expect to save on average £230 per year on their electricity bill over a 25 year period.

A 2.35kWp system will produce approx 1750kWh per year(in Scotland - where most Scottish Hydro customers live??) to perhaps 2,350kWh in Cornwall. That is assuming you have a directly South facing roof of the correct pitch and not shaded. Let us say an average of 2,000kWh per year.

The normal assumption(by the government) is that you will use 50% of that 2,000kWh in the house(and many people find that difficult to achieve) so say 1,000kWh per year. That is a saving of around £100 per year - and you will have done well to achieve that saving; a working couple in Scotland might save nearer to £60!!

What Scottish Hydro appear to have done is take their very highest tariff(Standard and credit payment) and made assumptions how much electricity prices will increase over the next 25 years and estimated what the average savings will have been over that 25 years.