How Much Money Can You Save with Solar Panels?

Inside this week’s edition:

• Change Your Life With Huge Earnings from Solar Panels

• Keeping Your Solar Panels Clean & Productive

• Beat the Immersion Fear With Kirsty’s Life Hack

• Solar Power Smashes 2024 Records Five Months Early

• What are Standing Charges? - Fixed Fees on Your Energy Bill

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Change Your Life With Huge Earnings from Solar Panels

Solar panels aren’t just a good environmental addition to your home, they can save and earn you hundreds or thousands each year and tens of thousands over the course of their lifespan.

Whether it’s through electricity savings or selling power back to the grid, whether you are just using solar panels or boosting your green home with a solar battery or power diverter, the possibilities are endless.

Our guide explains the best ways to save money in your home with solar panels and how much you could stand to save.

Keeping Your Solar Panels Clean & Productive

Solar panels are a very low maintenance technology, but that doesn’t mean that regular cleaning and check-ups are worth it to keep them productive and catch and problems early.

Learn how often you should be having solar panels cleaned or inspected, what should be done when you do, and the benefits it can bring.

Beat the Immersion Fear With Kirsty’s Life Hack

Kirsty’s mum found an innovative way to get over the fear that you left the immersion on, or to shame anyone else in the house who’s done the same.

Food for thought for the DIY canny.

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Solar Power Smashes 2024 Records Five Months Early

The total amount of grid-scale solar power produced in 2024 was eclipsed already this year in July, as the sector continues to grow by leaps and bounds.

Eirgrid data shows that by the end of July, 753 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of solar energy had been supplied to the grid, far ahead of the 659 GWh supplied for the whole of 2024.

In August, nearly 5% of all electricity came from solar power, while renewables as a whole accounted for almost 35% of power supplied.

What are Standing Charges? - Fixed Fees on Your Energy Bill

Your gas and electricity bill contains multiple fees, adding up to the total amount you owe. Aside from your electricity usage itself, one of the larger fees you may notice on the bill is the Standing Charge.

In our guide, we explain what this fixed fee is, what it’s for, and what you can expect to pay.

We hope you enjoyed the articles this week. Together with your support, we are helping to build a greener, more affordable Ireland for everyone.

That’s your energy update. Until the next edition

Briain Kelly,

Editor, EnergyEfficiency.ie