Why did the Calwell Shopping Centre invest in higher quality solar panels for their solar system?
Synopsis
Today, we're conducting a one year maintenance check on a SolarEdge LG system that was installed in the Caldwell shopping center last June. The LG Neon 395 commercial panels were chosen due to their 25 year parts and labor warranty. It's crucial for businesses to get the full return on their investment and the right warranty is key to this.
For commercial sites, quality is even more important than it is for residential sites. With hundreds of panels installed, choosing cheap panels or experiencing faults can result in a much larger exercise to remove and replace. However, the savings for businesses can be exceptional, with paybacks as low as two and a half years. Installing top of the range products, like LG and SolarEdge, not only guarantees quality and a seamless operation but also improves the environment and reduces our carbon footprint.
Video Transcript
- We're here today to do our one year maintenance check. We installed this system in June last year so it's time for the one year check just to see how things are going. The system is performing really well and that's what you would expect from a SolarEdge LG system.
- The Caldwell shopping center chose to use the LG Neon 395 commercial panels. One of the reasons why they've gone with that panel is that the panel comes with a full 25 year parts and labor warranty. There's many panels out there that have a 25 year, what we call a performance warranty but their parts and labor warranty is really only for 10 years. So it's important for us, for the businesses that we sell systems to, to get the full return on the system and for it to last that time.
- We obviously work with top of the range products. We make that decision because we believe they're the best in the range and their warranty is better than anyone else's. If you're going to install something that's going to last 25 years customers like to have a warranty that's going to last the length of their system.
- For a residential customer they might only be putting 20 panels on a roof but for a commercial site there could be three to 400 so if you've got a fault or you're choosing a cheap panel the exercise to go and remove all those panels and install new ones is vastly greater than it is at a domestic level so quality is even more important on commercial sites for me than it is on residential sites because it's such a big investment for a business. That said the investment itself is something that's really worthwhile doing. The savings for businesses can typically be much better because most of that power that a solar system generates on a business is being used during the daytime and that's when everyone's at work so the paybacks can be exceptional for businesses and I've seen them even below three years, as low as two and a half years which is great.
- Quality's everything. We're installing something for a customer so obviously the customer wants it to work, I want it to work. I want a system that's going to work seamlessly. That's why we go with top of the range products for example the LG and the SolarEdge. I don't believe there's anything better in the market.
- In a commercial situation it's obviously more focused on a return on your investment but the business owners should feel really happy and pleased with themselves and not only are they saving themselves some money but they're improving the environment and helping us reduce our carbon footprint.