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Home Energy  ·  2026  ·  Featured

How much could solaractually save your home?

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Home Energy · 2026

Do you still need the grid with solar + storage?

Where a TerraVault battery genuinely cuts your import - and the winter weeks a UK home still leans on the grid.

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Brick home with rooftop solar panels at golden hour
Home Energy · 2026

Is your roof right for solar? A five-minute check

Orientation, pitch and shading - the three things that decide your generation before an installer ever visits.

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Single-storey home with rooftop solar and an electric car charging in the carport
Home Energy · 2026

Getting the most from a partial-shade roof

Chimneys, dormers and next door's oak tree needn't cost you output - how SunCrown panels claw back shaded yield.

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Technology · 2026

What battery storage actually changes at home

Storing the day's generation shifts more than your bill - it changes when you use power, how you ride out an outage, and how little you draw from the grid after dark.

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A wall-mounted Lewis inverter on a home with rooftop solar
Costs & Savings · 2026

Reading your solar app: which numbers actually matter

Generation, self-consumption and export - the three figures that tell you whether your system is paying its way.

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Installer reviewing a maintenance schedule
Costs & Savings · 2026

What an AMC really covers - and why it pays back

Silver vs Platinum: panel cleans, priority response and the quiet cost of a system left unmaintained.

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Reviewing solar system figures on a tablet
Costs & Savings · 2026

Payback, plainly: how long until solar pays for itself?

No jargon - how system size, usage and export shape a realistic payback window for a typical UK home.

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Home with rooftop solar panels and a wall-mounted battery at golden hour
Solar + battery  ·  UK home

See how a British homecut its bills for good.

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Black rooftop solar panels
Guides · 2026

Standard vs Premium: which Lewis package fits?

SunCrown™ and a hybrid inverter, or SunCrown Black™ with extended warranties - how to choose without over-buying.

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Engineer checking system details on a laptop beside wall-mounted units
Quality · 2026

CE, UKCA and what British-led quality really means

The marks on your kit aren't decoration - what they certify, and why documented conformity should be non-negotiable.

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Lewis-branded wall inverters
Technology · 2026

On-grid or hybrid: choosing your inverter

GridMax or PowerSync - matching the inverter to your roof, your battery and how you use power.

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High-efficiency solar panel against sky
Technology · 2026

Panel efficiency, explained: what "Up to 25.4%" buys you

More usable energy from the same roof area - how premium cell efficiency turns into real generation on a British roof.

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Technician reviewing a solar system with a homeowner
Guides · 2026

Keeping panels at their best through a British winter

Self-cleaning coatings, seasonal dips and the handful of checks that keep output steady when the days are short.

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Wall-mounted TerraVault battery
Home Energy · 2026

Sizing your TerraVault: 5, 10 or 16 kWh?

Your evening usage, not the biggest box, decides the right storage - how to match capacity to how your home actually lives.

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A Lewis Green Energy engineer reviewing a home solar battery and hybrid inverter system
Home Energy · 2026

What actually keeps running when the power goes off

Solar panels alone do not power a property during an outage. To keep running you need a hybrid or off-grid inverter with a compatible battery, wired to selected essential circuits.

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SunCrown high-efficiency solar panels on a modern roof at golden hour
Technology · 2026

Small shadows, large losses: what partial shade does to a solar roof

Shading one small area of a panel can reduce output across a much wider section. Cell-level optimisation keeps the effect more localised. It reduces the loss; it does not remove it.

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A modern home with a complete Lewis rooftop solar installation
Technology · 2026

Highland or lowland: why the right panel depends on where in Ethiopia you are

Highland Ethiopia is close to ideal for solar: strong sunlight with mild air temperatures. In the lowlands the picture reverses, and the temperature coefficient matters more than headline efficiency.

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A Lewis GridMax on-grid solar inverter wall-mounted beside a home with rooftop solar
Technology · 2026

On-grid, hybrid or off-grid: which solar system is right for your property?

On-grid if your supply is reliable and you want to cut daytime bills. Hybrid for solar, a battery and backup in one system. Off-grid if mains power is unavailable or too unreliable to depend on.

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SunCrown Black all-black solar panels on a modern roof, uniformly black with a grid-free front surface
Technology · 2026

N-Type TOPCon or back-contact: what the extra efficiency buys you

TOPCon is the dependable mainstream technology. Back-contact moves the contacts behind the cell, reaching higher efficiency and adding cell-level shade optimisation, at a higher cost per panel.

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The Lewis TerraVault range – 5 kWh and 10 kWh wall-mounted units alongside a 16 kWh floor-standing cabinet
Home Energy · 2026

Sizing a home battery: 5, 10 or 16 kWh?

Size a home battery on the electricity you use after sunset, not on your total daily use, then add the essential loads you want covered during an outage.

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Reviewing service records beside a wall-mounted battery and inverter
Ownership · 2026

What a solar maintenance contract covers, and what it does not

Scheduled visits, panel cleaning, inspection, technical support and a written report. Spare parts and major repairs are quoted separately. Warranty and AMC are not the same thing.

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Engineer reviewing system documents on a tablet
Guides · 2026

How to check a solar quotation before you sign it

Exact models, a datasheet for every component, warranty terms, the backup circuit list and conformity marks. If any are missing, you are comparing prices rather than systems.

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Lewis Green Energy sign on a modern commercial building
Business · 2026

Solar for clinics, offices and shops in Addis Ababa

Design around the cost of downtime, not only the electricity bill: the right inverter, a defined list of critical circuits, and a maintenance plan with a response target.

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