Energy firm E.ON says individuals who keep at house all day can save round £913 on vitality payments. Customers have been emailed by the corporate informing them of the chance to economize by utilizing photo voltaic vitality.
Save Money with Solar Energy
E.ON’s e-mail knowledgeable prospects that they may cut back their annual vitality prices by £713. In addition, you can even save £200 on photo voltaic panel set up.
This double saving implies that prospects not solely minimize prices up entrance, but additionally have the potential to ‘become profitable again’ by means of funds for producing energy for the National Grid.
The e-mail says:
We are right here to share with you some attention-grabbing information. You can begin saving as much as £713 a yr in your vitality with a bit assist from the solar.
Customers who go for E.ON’s unique photo voltaic SEG tariffs can export extra photo voltaic vitality again to the grid, incomes further revenue. By doing this, prospects can profit financially from their photo voltaic panels and on the similar time contribute to the vitality provide.
As an E.ON Next buyer, we additionally supply as much as £200 off photo voltaic panels and battery techniques,
Example Savings and Installation Costs
E.ON supplies an illustrative instance primarily based on a property in central England, outfitted with a south-facing photo voltaic array on a roof with a 35-degree tilt and no shade. The hypothetical property would devour 4,800 kWh of electrical energy per yr, with residents in the home all day.
E.ON notes:
“These are instance figures solely, primarily based on standardized MCS calculations. The financial savings are primarily based on a property fitted with a south-facing photo voltaic array in central England on a roof with 35 -degree tilt and no shading, with an electrical energy consumption of 4,800 kWh per yr (with the client’s house all day), at a tariff price of twenty-two.40p/kWh (the Ofgem Energy Price Cap price from 01 July 2024).
In the instance above, the photo voltaic array consists of 12 x 435 W (5.22 kWp) panels that produce 4,881 kWh per yr, mixed with a 5.1 kWh battery. The value of photo voltaic panels from E.ON begins at roughly £5,000, though costs can differ between completely different installers.
With the system costing £7,500 together with the battery, prospects will recoup their funding in 12 years, with annual financial savings of £700.
In the unlikely occasion of upper vitality costs, the payback interval could possibly be even shorter, which might imply extra years of revenue earlier than the panels should be changed.
