Are you an Installer?
Good news – installing Sunstation can usually be done in a single day.
That’s because there’s no major surgery involved.
There’s no cutting into the roof; we simply remove the very top cover. No drama and no disruption – just a quick, painless process.
Sunstation has been designed to work with a whole range of roof tiles or slates from many different manufacturers.
So there’s every chance it will work with yours – but to be absolutely sure, give us a call on:
The average solar power system in the UK is 3kWp which equates to 21sqm. On average, a system this size would produce about 2,600 units of electricity per annum (a typical home consumes 3,500-4,000 units per annum).
To qualify for the feed-in tariff, the upper size limit for your system is 4kWp which equates to 28 sqm. To check out the size of your roof, use our calculator.
We’ll introduce you to one of our trusted installers, from our UK-wide network.
First, your installer will remove the tiles or slates in the area where the solar is going to be positioned. No other part of the roof is removed or cut into. Sunstation simply replaces the removed tiles or slates and acts as the waterproof barrier.
The modules are fixed directly to your battens, and a perimeter is added to the array to ensure it’s safely embedded into the roof.
Solar panels capture the sunlight and convert it into electricity.
And you don’t need to live somewhere warm and sunny, because solar needs only light not heat. Even the UK gets 60% of the sunlight (or solar radiation) found at the Equator.
It’s true that the more light the panels receive, the more electricity they can generate. But they still work on cloudy days – just as a solar-powered calculator does.
Their full name is solar photovoltaic panels, or PV. At Solarcentury, we usually just say “solar” for short.
Solar panels are frames made up of solar PV cells (these are layers of monocrystalline or polycrystalline silicon – a handy fact for your next quiz):
