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RED Renewables - Solar Panels in Grimsargh, Lancashire - A Case Study

Case Study

Roof facing south

This customer in Grimsargh wanted to take full advantage of the most generous tier of the Feed in Tariff (up to 4kWp). We managed to secure 20 of the first batch of CEEG 200W panels into the UK, thus providing the full 4kW.

Overview

The house has an almost perfectly south facing roof with interlocking concrete tiles. The pitch of the roof is approximately 23°.

The Roof Equipment

The panels were mounted in portrait format in two rows of ten.

The Electrical Equipment

The roof has a particularly low pitch leaving little room for a single inverter to be installed and adequately ventilated. A system of two smaller inverters was therefore chosen for this installation. EverSolar TL2000AS inverters were used and the equipment is pictured below:

Solar panels in Grimsargh, Preston

Pair of inverters
(in loft)

The generation meter is located by the consumer unit:

Annual Yield

Total annual yield from system = 3472kWh, worth around £1729 per year.

Annual yield by month