Solar Powered Panels for the house

[DREW]

Does anyone know if there is a supplier in Phuket who can install them and if they can run your electric supply from them and if so what is the cost for a 4 bed detached house.

Thanks for the help if you can.

Regards

Drew

[ATMwalking]

No, but if you find a reasonable offering, please post here.

If any country was going to make a go at solar power, it should be thailand. They should try and make some sort of roof thai. So much wasted energy.

[whuakito]

Originally Posted by DREW

Does anyone know if there is a supplier in Phuket who can install them and if they can run your electric supply from them and if so what is the cost for a 4 bed detached house.

Thanks for the help if you can.

Regards

Drew

as far as I know there are two sort of panels.
1 to warm your heating/ hot water sistem only. cheap enough.
2 to supply energy to your electric sistem.< photovoltaic collectors panels> for 3kwp, you need a surface of 24mq panels. cost in Italy 7000 euros per 1 kwp.
in Italy if you use this energetic sistem you get a contribution of 50% of the cost from the government,also you can resell the spare energy to the company which used to supply you.

[LivinLOS]

From reading I did a couple of years back.. Photovoltaic / making electric is really not cost beneficial right now, you have better options in this angle from wind or in select situations water..

However water heating for the home can be done, theres panels made in china with black glass rods inside a vacuum with a attached insulated tank.. These make water ranging from very warm (a thai shower) to scoldingly hot depending on time of day, although direct sunlight makes them really hot even a cloudy day makes them useable.. For someone who simply must have boiling hot water at all times these can be used in combination with immersion heaters to take the bulk of the load off them.

Years and years ago back when I was a kid, we were in Africa and had a family friend who had a guesthouse in the Rif mountains.. He had a flat roof section and we used to live up there as it was open and more space than rooms, we helped him jury rig a system up with black PVC pipes that simply coiled in the sun then fed an insulated header tank.. Gave warm to hot water from about 1 - 2 hours after sunrise until right in the night, for a cost of a few dollars.

Every house with a value over 2 mil baht should have a tax applied if it doesnt have its own large scale rainwater collection and storage, and solar water heating.. that would sort the islands water shortage issues, help with the rainwater run off in over populated / developed / tree felled areas, and save kwh unit use.. Just obvious.

[DanBlack]

I was looking around Koh Ma Prow (Coconut Island beside Phuket) and almost every house had a solar panel about 1 sq m on a pole outside their house. Obviously government sponsored, but somebody made them

[LivinLOS]

Yeah there was a gov system to implement in homes not on the national grid.. But the panels got many complaints due to being standard thai gov scheme. Someone got huge kickbacks but after install there was no maintenance or follow through and most systems didnt work after a couple of months. Was an inside story in the gazette last year sometime.

[ATMwalking]

Originally Posted by LivinLOS

Yeah there was a gov system to implement in homes not on the national grid.. But the panels got many complaints due to being standard thai gov scheme. Someone got huge kickbacks but after install there was no maintenance or follow through and most systems didnt work after a couple of months. Was an inside story in the gazette last year sometime.

This the sad part and why this is all dreaming. Any advancement or just a good idea gets fracked up in the end by corruption. This has to be the single biggest blocker here. Something the coupe was to have dealt with...

[DanBlack]

It might be a good place to buy used panels and circuitry.

[LivinLOS]

Problem with used is.. the whole photovoltaic tech.. evolves faster than it depreciates..

Like buying old computers aint worth it..

[DanBlack]

I thought I had a good idea. Glad you set me straight

[Simbo]

Originally Posted by DanBlack

I was looking around Koh Ma Prow (Coconut Island beside Phuket) and almost every house had a solar panel about 1 sq m on a pole outside their house. Obviously government sponsored, but somebody made them

They use this system up in the Karen villages SW of Chiang Mai that I spend time in. It goes to a 12v battery which stores enough electric to power 2 low power flourescent bulbs and a double socket. In addition each village has a place for 'miners lamps' to be charged communally. Unfortunately this system was started under the auspices of Mr T in order to improve lives and get votes at the same time. The result of this- all support cut off by the current 'non-government' as a punishment so no further villages benefitting from this relatively cheap system at the moment. Apparently it costs about B20000 per system.