How do your energy bills help to customise the size and design of a solar power system?

The designing and sizing of a solar panel system is crucial in ensuring you get the best value for your investment. Going too small will waste money and going too large will result in excess capital invested into a system that won't benefit you much. At our company, we begin by getting the customer's energy bills and designing a system to meet their needs. We explain the various products on the market and give tailored solution designs and quotations.

The first step is to determine the amount of energy the property is using. We look at the electricity bills to see the average kilowatts per day used. We match the solar panels to the time of day when there is the most consumption, usually a north and western orientation. This ensures that the system generates good amounts of energy from the late morning to the late afternoon. Any additional energy that is not used by the property is stored in the battery for later use.

Designing and sizing of a solar panel system, I believe is crucial. You don't want to go too small of a system, because then you've really wasted your money. But you don't want to go too large of a system, because then you've invested excess capital into a system that is not gaining you much benefit. Every customer runs through the same process, we get their energy bills and design a system to meet their needs. We sit down with the customers and explain the various products on the market, and what you can expect to achieve out of those products. And we then give you a few designs and quotations based on what we think would be the best tailored solution for yourself.

So the first thing to look at is obviously, how much energy the property is using. So we sort of try and get some history from our electricity bills, to see how many kilowatts on average per day that the customer is using. And then from there we start designing a system. We sort of speak to them and say, Is it more of a morning or afternoon or during the middle of the day, there's a majority of consumption?. And try and match the solar panels in the facing of the maximum consumption, most people do a north and a western orientation. So that means during the middle of the day, right to the late afternoon we're generating good amounts of energy to supply to the household. And obviously if you've got a battery there, the battery would be topped up with the additional energy that's not being used from the property.