So, you live in the UK. With what seems like around three days of summer every year, will having Solar PV panels on your home actually be beneficial for you?
Well, since you are able to find yourself with sunburn even on a cloudy day, the amount of strong sunlight needed to produce electricity is likely to be a lot less than you might imagine. On cloudy days, solar panels will produce around half of the electricity they will on the brightest of days, but this is likely to be more than enough for the majority of people.
On top of this, Solar PV panels can store electricity for as long as you need and therefore the amount produced on the sunnier days (and remember, even the winter will have very clear and sunny days) will, in the majority of cases, more than adequately cover any prolonged period of gloomy weather.
Therefore, solar power is likely to work perfectly well, even in dark and gloomy Britain. However, there are a few things to bear in mind. Whilst you might be effectively generating the power for your home for free (minus the initial solar panel prices), leaving appliances on when you are not using them is going to drain the supply of energy you create. Therefore, it is even wiser than ever to ensure that unused appliances are always switched off. Whilst leaving appliances switched on might not be harming the environment or costing you money, by draining the supply of energy you create needlessly, you may find that a prolonged period of dark days may leave you seeing power supplies dwindling.
Solar panel prices are lower than ever and this means that far more people can reap the many benefits of solar power. All it will take is to simply understand how to utilise it in the best way and even the darkest areas of the country can find that it is more than adequate for what they need.