'Exciting Solar Opportunity'
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:06 pm
Hi Everyone,
Apologies for the long silence. I've been in my new place for 10 months now, and it is finally starting feel like home (although I only unpacked the fusor a few weeks ago). The house was built before World War II as a barracks for the housing of Royal Air Force personnel, around 1935. It is 82 feet long and 16 feet wide (perfect for a linear accelerator!) It is a single skin building (2.75" cinderblock) with large single-glazed windows along the road side and is very cold in winter: there is no ceiling and no insulation of any sort, either in the walls, floor or roof (perfect for cooling hot electronics ). The house is situated adjacent to the Martin Baker aircraft ejector seat factory.
I have spent the last few months drawing plans - this place needs modernising, and it presents 'an exciting solar opportunity'. It has 25 x 2.5 meters of south facing roof! I have designed the new place to Passive House specification (loads of insulation and plenty of large windows).
One online solar calculator estimates that at our current Feed-In Generation Tariff, a 7.5kWp system (18.5 x 2.5 meters) could generate around £36K total profit over 20 years. That is on top of the £10K - £13K investment.
Any thoughts?
Apologies for the long silence. I've been in my new place for 10 months now, and it is finally starting feel like home (although I only unpacked the fusor a few weeks ago). The house was built before World War II as a barracks for the housing of Royal Air Force personnel, around 1935. It is 82 feet long and 16 feet wide (perfect for a linear accelerator!) It is a single skin building (2.75" cinderblock) with large single-glazed windows along the road side and is very cold in winter: there is no ceiling and no insulation of any sort, either in the walls, floor or roof (perfect for cooling hot electronics ). The house is situated adjacent to the Martin Baker aircraft ejector seat factory.
I have spent the last few months drawing plans - this place needs modernising, and it presents 'an exciting solar opportunity'. It has 25 x 2.5 meters of south facing roof! I have designed the new place to Passive House specification (loads of insulation and plenty of large windows).
One online solar calculator estimates that at our current Feed-In Generation Tariff, a 7.5kWp system (18.5 x 2.5 meters) could generate around £36K total profit over 20 years. That is on top of the £10K - £13K investment.
Any thoughts?