> Solivus will guarantee the £3,500 Arc for 20 years and plans to let buyers pay in instalments.
Assuming they’ll require a deposit and credit check, this didn’t help people most impacted by rising bills.
> But unless buyers also invest in battery-management systems to store the solar electricity – typically during the brightest hours of the day – any unused will have to be, at best, sold back to the grid – at a fraction of the savings they would have made using the power themselves
So more start-up costs that price people out of the market
> Unlike many other solar products, the Arc is made without using any toxic or rare earth materials.
Solar panels are mainly silicon, which after oxygen is the 2nd most abundant element in the earth’s crust. The dirty materials go into batteries not panels
> But work remained to be done into how to recycle the traces of lead in the product at the end of its expected 10-year lifecycle.
I thought they said the lifespan was 20 years?
honestly this article is a mess and this product doesn’t help people that are most affected by energy price rises
The PowerRoll here is the exciting one. Most warehouses can’t take solar panels because of the weight – but lightweight film, even if less efficient, would open up a huge amount of idle acre-age of buildings for low-cost, low-weight solar.
It obviously won’t run things all the time but that’s not the point – it would reduce a big chunk of our gas usage in the times when it was bright.
How expensive is electricity in the UK? Are heat pumps an option?
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> Solivus will guarantee the £3,500 Arc for 20 years and plans to let buyers pay in instalments.
Assuming they’ll require a deposit and credit check, this didn’t help people most impacted by rising bills.
> But unless buyers also invest in battery-management systems to store the solar electricity – typically during the brightest hours of the day – any unused will have to be, at best, sold back to the grid – at a fraction of the savings they would have made using the power themselves
So more start-up costs that price people out of the market
> Unlike many other solar products, the Arc is made without using any toxic or rare earth materials.
Solar panels are mainly silicon, which after oxygen is the 2nd most abundant element in the earth’s crust. The dirty materials go into batteries not panels
> But work remained to be done into how to recycle the traces of lead in the product at the end of its expected 10-year lifecycle.
I thought they said the lifespan was 20 years?
honestly this article is a mess and this product doesn’t help people that are most affected by energy price rises
The PowerRoll here is the exciting one. Most warehouses can’t take solar panels because of the weight – but lightweight film, even if less efficient, would open up a huge amount of idle acre-age of buildings for low-cost, low-weight solar.
It obviously won’t run things all the time but that’s not the point – it would reduce a big chunk of our gas usage in the times when it was bright.
How expensive is electricity in the UK? Are heat pumps an option?