I Have Always Had Serious Doubts About The efficiency Of Solar Panels In The UK,

remember all those claims of how they could save typically £120 a year? well it appears some one has been telling porky pies, the benefits of solar panels have been called into question after the Energy Savings Trust (EST) reduced the estimated saving on electricity bills to just £70 a year, you only had to install a £14,000 set of panels to achieve this, Rosalyn Foreman of the EST said, 'we followed trials of other technologies which you'd expect to export much less back to the grid than solar panels, but they showed lower levels of electricity used on site than expected, so we've altered our expectations of solar accordingly, while these are typical estimates, it's quite possible that someone could save more than £70 if they were at home in the day or set all their appliances to run in daylight hours,'

the news comes after a Which? investigation found that three quarters of solar panel salesmen used "dodgy sales tactics" and misled customers on potential savings, I would agree that in some countries going solar is an option, so long as some one writes off the original cost of the panels, but solar in the UK? I still feel the installation and maintenance cost would out weigh any financial gain unless electricity prices were much higher.