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On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:10:04 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

Id like to find out if its possible to buy a few solar pv panels,

and
take the feed from that direct to a storage heater


What time of year do you want the heating?

What time of year do solar panels give their lowest output for the
shortest time?


And this is Solar PV at about 30% effciency not Solar Thermal which
will be more than double that. Even in mid summer with bright
sunshine all day you aren't going to get a great many kWHrs, it's not
worth the effort with Solar PV. Solar thermal would be a better bet
and dump the heat into a smallish thermal store and circulate that
for heating but you still aren't going to get a great deal of heat
and in winter more or less forget it.


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Cheers
Dave.