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The Magic of Solar Power

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  The Magic of Solar Panels I used to play Magic the Gathering card game.  Some thirty years later the original cards from 1993-1994 turned out to be worth quite a lot of money.  In fact they were worth so much I sold my collection of old cards and got enough cash for an entire solar array on my house! My full system cost just over £15,000.  The main part was on the panels, inverter and battery.  There were additional costs for scaffolding and a Solar iBoost for hot water ( more on that later ).  What I had installed was a 4 kilowatt peak (kWp) system consisting of:  10x QCell 395 Watt panels with SolarEdge optimisers and SolarEdge inverter £6300 An integrated SolarEdge StoreEdge 10kWh home battery £8000 What can you expect from a Solar system? According to Ofgem the 'average' British household uses 242 kWh of electricity per month.  This is only household consumption and does not cover anything for an electric vehicle.  Fortunately my friend was kind enough to share data for t