How does the size of your solar system help to future proof your energy needs?

For homeowners looking to install a solar system, it's important to consider whether you have a single-phase or three-phase site. Single-phase sites typically have a limit of five kilowatts of inverter, while three-phase sites can handle as much as 30 kilowatts of solar. This means that a three-phase site can support a larger system and more power can be sold back to the grid and credited to your bill.

When considering a solar system, it's important to think about high-demand appliances like a home storage battery or an electric car. These additional loads mean that getting the most out of your roof space is crucial. Using high-efficiency panels will ensure that you maximize the amount of power that can be generated. As electric cars become more common, it's important to size the system accordingly to meet these new demands. Ultimately, the specifics of each site will dictate the best solution, and it's important to have these conversations with homeowners to ensure that their needs are met.

So locally in our area, there's some limitations on how much solar can go onto a single phase. So, we'd normally talk about five kilowatts of inverter on a single phase site, and residentially as much as 30 kilowatts of solar on a three-phase site. So, if you do have a single phase, there may be a limit to how much power you can sell back to the grid. So if you did have a three-phase site, you could be selling, you could put on a larger system and sell more back to the grid and the credit will be applied to your bill. At the end of the day, the difference between single phase and three phase is that you can put a bigger system on.

In looking at a solar system and looking at these, what will be high demand appliances in a home storage battery or an electric car, getting the most out of the roof space you've got is always a good thing to think about. The additional load that the battery or car will bring was when you're going to need to get as much as you can off the roof. A more efficient solution is going to help you meet those new demands. So high efficiency panels will mean you're going to get the most out of your roof space. Moving forward, electric cars are almost certainly going to be part of everyone's lives, and that's always in conjunction with home energy storage. So that's always a conversation we have with our homeowners and we do our best to size the system in anticipation for those things being part of the home.