With electricity bills skyrocketing over the past couple of years, more and more people are looking to the sun to power their homes, businesses and EVs. But when it comes to getting solar panel infrastructure installed, there are a lot of things to consider.

HOW MUCH TO INVEST

One of the risks homeowners face when installing solar is overcapitalising.

“With solar and battery it definitely needs to be ‘buy once, cry once’ as such,” says hipages solar expert Brittany Gardiner, general manager of MKG Electrical. “Overcapitalising is either getting a solar system that produces way too much solar that your house isn’t going to consume and that once your battery’s full, it’s just going to go back to the grid and you’ll only get a small tariff.

“Or, on the same token, getting a battery that y

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