Stupidly expensive PV+Battery quotes in Scotland

pramsay13

kvothe said:

pramsay13 said:

Try Lukas Solar Services. They are based in West Central Scotland although cover the whole of Scotland.
They use ladders so don't need scaffolding and have done ours and my parents' house for a reasonable price.

Thanks! Will give them a ring next week. If you don't mind sharing, which panel, inverter and battery combo did you go for?

No batteries, but for us we got 6kW system (16 x Eurener panels) and Solis Inverter - total £5160.

For my parents it was 3.95kW (10 x Trina Panels) and Solis inverter - total £4450.

The price of everything had gone up between the two installs. 

PennyForThem_2

2nd_time_buyer said:

The scaffolding seems to be a big variable. Light Renewables who quite a few forum members in the South of UK have used, seem to do their installations off ladders. This means they can be very competitive, particularly when installations are over several roofs. By not sub contracting this out presumably the is also comes with cost and time savings. Although there are obvious H&S implications. 

 So the total costs in your table of quotes includes scaffolding? If so, Quote 5 looks okay.

So I wonder if you have a problem after installation, will LR have back up services?

Solarchaser

pramsay13 said:

kvothe said:

pramsay13 said:

Try Lukas Solar Services. They are based in West Central Scotland although cover the whole of Scotland.
They use ladders so don't need scaffolding and have done ours and my parents' house for a reasonable price.

Thanks! Will give them a ring next week. If you don't mind sharing, which panel, inverter and battery combo did you go for?

No batteries, but for us we got 6kW system (16 x Eurener panels) and Solis Inverter - total £5160.

For my parents it was 3.95kW (10 x Trina Panels) and Solis inverter - total £4450.

The price of everything had gone up between the two installs. 

My suggestion would be to go with this company, and to go for purely solar, that will sort the mcs stuff.

You will find I'd imagine that you will not be allowed over 3.68kw inverter size, as Scotland is listed red for generation,  that's what I found when I asked about expanding my system.

You could then perhaps look at a sofar me3000sp or a lux3600acs stand alone battery inverter and a couple of these for alot cheaper than you have been quoted.
https://voltaconsolar.com/pylontech-us5000-lithium-battery.html

This would be a self install and probably in a grey area legally, but you stated you were not bothered about mse etc,  so I've leapt to the conclusion that you were OK in the grey area.

My install 8 years ago was off ladders