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Generate your home's own electricity and earn up to £455 a year!

Solar panel electricity systems -- or solar pv panels -- capture the sun’s energy using photovoltaic cells and convert it into electricity for you home. These cells don’t always need direct sunlight to work, and can still generate electricity on cloudy days.

You can buy your own solar panels ...

Earn £455* a year
Save £180* a year
Average
cost £6,500

Invest in savings with solar

If you can afford the up-front costs of solar panels, it’s better to buy them yourself. You’ll get 100% of the income generated from creating your own green electricity using a Feed-In Tariff scheme (FITs). You can also consider a loan for solar panels, as the profit from the electricity should cover the repayment amounts -- with money to spare.

...Or qualify for free solar panels

Save up to£180* a year
Cost FREE

Nothing comes for free, right? Wrong!

If your home qualifies, you could get free solar panels through schemes referred to as “rent-a-roof.” Solar companies install the panels free of charge, and they pay for any maintenance and connection charges. Then they collect any profit from the green electricity that is generated. You from the free electricity generated from the panels, without any of the cost.

Solar panel guides

We know it's a big decision, so we've tried to cover any remaining questions you have in our guides below.

* A 3kW 12 solar panel system, with a tilt of 30 degrees, South facing, with no shading and a 0.8 constant (used to make the calculation accurate for UK conditions), will generate 2575.2 Kwhs of electricity per year. By signing up to the Feed-in Tariff, you can earn 15.44p for every unit of electricity generated (£397), plus 4.5p for every unit sold back to the Grid (£57) meaning total Feed-in Tariff earnings of £455. By adding together the savings on electricity and the earnings on the Feed-in Tariff, you get a total saving of £640.