Solar Quotes for the North West

arty688

No breakdown but i'm working on it being about £3500 ish

2nd_time_buyer

For what it is worth, I paid £7500 for 17 of the same Jinko Solar panels with Solaredge inverter and optimisers and pigeon proofing.

The Micro Inverters you have specified will be adding about £130 per panel to your quote i.e. around £2000 in total (minus the cost of a string inverter that you would otherwise need(?)). 

arty688

Thats quite a good price  as I would say the SE stuff would add about £1500 to the basic cost. I also probably depends on when you had it installed as the price of kit has gone up quite a bit in the last 12 months or so . Looking at my old spreadsheet from 18 months ago panels are up 15 to 20%.

arty688

Bit of a miscalculation I think panles have gone up more than that more ,like 30% I would assume the other kit as well as the cost of installation has gone up to.

2nd_time_buyer

Is that for like-for-like in terms of wattage. I note for instance that Jinko panels have a 25 product warranty and a low degradation rate as they are n-type cells.  Would those panel have been around 18 months ago? The closest panel might have been a Sunpower panel at a much higher cost.

arty688

yes like for like 

I don't think the Jinko ones were available at the time and I do like the idea of the 25y warranty but I would estimate that the price of them is more expensive that it was. Not sure anything is going down in cost ATM.

bazza2000_2

Must be the day for quotes, just received my revised quote:

5.46KW SOLAR PV SYSTEM

14 x 390w Trina panels

1 x Lux Power 5kw Inverter Hybrid

1 x free lifetime monitoring app

1 x Cables, conduit, isolators

1 x MCS certification

1 x HIES insurance backed warranty

1 x Scaffolding 

2 x 3.5kw Pylontech Batteries (7KW)

1 x Installation & commissioning - £9,895 fitted inc 5% VAT

Initial impression is that its a reasonable quote.  I've confirmed the Pylongtechs are the US3000C with 95% DoD (Not too sure if the Lux will allow that, and I will probably still with a middle 80% anyway)
I've not seen much of the Trina panels? Anyone have any experience of them?

arty688

arty688 said:

Got my first quote in.

16 x 395w Jinko panels
Enphase micro inverters
8.2 kw Givenergy battery

£12581.28

Looking at the quote in more detail its actually 18 x 395 so 7.1kwh there was a typo in the headline.

Magnitio

Awaiting installation of similar system:

16 * 400w REC panels, 5kwh GivEnergy inverter, 8.2kwh Givenergy battery. £10,200.

Had quotes for £11k and £13.8k from two other suppliers.

arty688

Spoke to Eco renewables this morning should be getting a quote soon although he did seem a bit shocked by my 22000Kwh annual usage .