Solar PV products for Irish Farms and Agriculture – Use Your Own Farm Shed Roof to Generate Your Own Electricity!

Solar PV products exist for a range of different applications. These include:

Solar panels or modules. These are the best known solar PV products. Now a familiar site on rooftops and in ‘solar farms’ and business roofs they have been mass manufactured for over 25 years.

Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV). These are building material products such as roof tiles, glass or cladding with solar PV materials embedded within them.

Consumer electronics. Some consumer products have been developed with solar PV materials integrated into them so that they can produce their own power.

Conventional solar PV panels will help meet some of the electricity demands of a building.

1 sq. m of silicon solar panels will generate ~150W of power on a clear sunny day. That’s enough to power a laptop computer.

A property solar PV system sized at 24 sq. m (~4kW) and well located would generate around 4000kWh of electricity a year. That is over 50% of the average annual electricity demand of an Irish home or small business.

Solar PV systems will still function on overcast days in Ireland although not at their maximum rated capacity.

You will find a Solar Energy System for your Farm to be hassle free, no noise, no moving parts and self cleaning – a true asset not a cost.