Off grid house build Orkney

Thanks so much, and honestly, hard as it is to believe, it was just luck! The pitch of the roof was decided by council planning, the dimensions of the space was just us drawing out the maximum we thought we could afford to build (3 years ago now) and hoping for the best. We tried to buy other panels (that wouldn’t have fitted as well, or generated as much) multiple times, but, due to stock and manufacturing issues orders were cancelled or we couldn’t get a hold of them. It was our sparky who said he’d bought half a pallet of these, he thought 14 would fit our roof and did we want to make that order up to a full pallet before it was shipped? We were having such a hard time getting a hold of anything that we just jumped at the opportunity. Still mind boggling how perfectly they sit there, and we ended up with 1kwh more solar production than we had hoped for too!

@SomethingOrOther yeah uh huh, we’ve got 20kwh of victron batteries for going in. Fortunately we ordered and paid for them a couple months ago so they’re sitting in the uk with our supplier and will be coming up soon now the workshop is watertight. We’ll have 6kw of production from the turbine and 5.1kw from the solar.

@ChainBreaker I know what you mean. The way the sun was when I came home the day they fit them it didn’t look like they had a chance to get it done because it just looked like the roof..