Solar roof tiles

[andygates]

Here's just the sort of home-generation idea that we need: solar roof tiles from SRS Energy.  They are supplied just like ordinary pantiles, and they are installed by roofers, just like ordinary pantiles - not by some expensive tech guy.  Details are a bit thin but they look just awesome to me.

This is the kind of thing which will make the passive home - a building that just consumes energy - an anachronism fairly soon. 

Comments

[despaer.livejournal.com]

I have just had a slightly longer trawl through the website and it would be noce if these people could actually say how much power their tiles will produce on, say, a cloudy day and a sunny day (even if it was LA based). They do provide some numbers but frankly it looks like they just invented them because they look good.

This is a major problem that the solar panel/tile industry needs to sort out, the business of the product getting sold like double glazing. Namely, you don't know how much you will pay until some horrible salesman has sat in your house for an evening, making price comparisons is almost impossible and you don't get given any hard data about expected power output under a variety of conditions.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I concur. Some actual numbers would be nice!