01 — METHOD & SOURCES

Every figure on this site, and where it came from.

A savings claim you cannot audit is marketing. This page exists so that an engineer, an architect or a sceptical spouse can check our working and disagree with it precisely.

25

locations modelled from primary yield data

11

assumptions declared in full below

0

figures from a competitor brochure

Four markets where we refuse to quote payback

Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha — Gulf / subsidised tariffs.

02 — ASSUMPTIONS

What we assumed, and why it is conservative.

The arbitrage capture rate of 55% is the clearest example: a perfect trader would capture close to 100% of the spread, and no real system does.

PVGIS v5.315° tilt, south-facing, 14% system losses, at each named city
EV use21 kWh per 100 km — measured real-world European average
Heat pump4,993 kWh per year, German average
Self-consumption without storage20–40% (JRC)
Self-consumption with storage70–85% (JRC)
Round-trip94%, modern LFP with hybrid inverter
Reserve20% of usable capacity, never traded
Arbitrage capture55% of the average daily day-ahead spread
Cycles300 per year
Platform share15%, retained by CAROSOLARO
DegradationNot modelled in first-year figures; LFP typically retains 80% after 6,000 cycles

03 — SOURCES

No figure on this site comes from a competitor’s brochure.

Where we could not obtain primary data — for instance a household spot market in Cyprus or Qatar — we claim nothing rather than estimating.

PVGIS v5.3Specific yield for all 25 locations
Eurostat 2026 retailPublished 2026 retail tariffs
EPEX / FraunhoferDay-ahead spreads and negative-price hours
EEG 2026German feed-in 7.78 c/kWh
NetherlandsNet metering ends 1 January 2027
Real Decreto 244/2019Compensación simplificada; non-avoidable contracted-power charge
Battery Price Survey, Dec 2025LFP USD 70/kWh global / USD 177 turnkey EU
EN 1090 / 14080 / 50549-1Structure, glulam, grid connection
CPR 2024/3110Product conformity route

04 — LIMITATIONS

What these figures are not.

  1. 01

    They are not a quotation

    Site works, groundworks, grid connection charges and VAT are excluded and vary substantially by property.

  2. 02

    They are not a guarantee of trading income

    Wholesale spreads reflect a temporary scarcity of flexibility. We size every case so that it remains defensible on self-consumption alone.

  3. 03

    They do not model your actual consumption profile

    The simulator uses a smooth household profile. A house that cooks at 19:00 and charges a car overnight behaves differently from one that runs a workshop at midday.

  4. 04

    They assume no shading

    A pavilion under a mature oak will underperform these figures materially. Shading is assessed on site.

  5. 05

    They exclude tariff and policy change

    Where a change is already legislated — Dutch net metering ending in 2027 — we have used the post-change position.