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Battery storage

Home battery guide: the arithmetic that decides

A home battery earns the spread between your electricity price and your export rate, and it costs a fixed amount per stored kilowatt hour. Whether it is worth it is one honest comparison, worked here with European reference values.

Updated 4 August 20268 min read

Prices and incentives

How to compare solar quotes without being fooled

Quotes for the same roof can differ by thousands and still both be fair. Reduce every offer to a price per kilowatt installed, check what that price includes, and know the red flags that end a conversation.

Updated 3 August 20268 min read

Prices and incentives

Is solar worth it? Four numbers decide, wherever you live

No universal yes exists. Whether rooftop solar pays depends on four numbers you can find for your own house; here is the framework, a worked European example, and the honest list of cases where it does not pay.

Updated 3 August 20268 min read

Solar systems

How solar panels work: from photon to AC power

The photovoltaic effect explained without hand-waving: what happens inside a silicon cell, how cells become a system, and what actually determines the energy your roof delivers.

Updated 4 August 20269 min read