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Clear Sky Energy Solar PV and battery installers in Tullamore. SEAI registered: we handle your grant start to finish.

'Thirty-year warranty' sounds like one thing. It's usually two, and they're not the same. 📜 Product warranty covers the ...
16/10/2026

'Thirty-year warranty' sounds like one thing. It's usually two, and they're not the same. 📜

Product warranty covers the panel itself — manufacturing defects, delamination, junction box failure, the frame letting go. If the thing breaks, this is the one that replaces it.

Performance warranty covers output. Every panel degrades. The manufacturer guarantees it will still produce at least a stated percentage of its original rating at a given year — typically somewhere around 87–90% at year 25 or 30 on modern N-type panels. If it falls below the curve, that's a claim.

A headline number without saying which warranty it refers to is marketing, not information. Ask for both, in writing.

Where dual-glass comes in: instead of a polymer backsheet, the panel has glass on both faces. Backsheets are the component that ages worst — they yellow, they crack, they let moisture into the cell. Glass does none of those things. Dual-glass panels generally carry longer warranties for exactly that reason, and they're more tolerant of the damp, salt-laden air plenty of Irish sites have.

Three more questions worth asking about any warranty:

🔸 Does it cover labour, or only the part? A free panel you have to pay someone to fit is a partial warranty.
🔸 Who honours it if the installer is gone? Manufacturer warranties survive. Workmanship warranties don't.

Get the answers in writing before you sign anything. Any installer worth dealing with will hand them over without being asked twice.

📍 Clear Sky Energy, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
📞 057 937 4247 · ✉️ [email protected]
🌐 clearskyenergy.ie

Not every house qualifies for the SEAI solar grant, and the rules trip up more people than you'd expect. 📋 The house mus...
15/10/2026

Not every house qualifies for the SEAI solar grant, and the rules trip up more people than you'd expect. 📋

The house must have been built and occupied before 2021. This is the big one. Newer homes are already built to a standard that assumed renewables, so they're outside the scheme. A 2022 build doesn't qualify no matter how much you'd like it to.

There must be an MPRN. Your meter point reference number, off any electricity bill. No meter, no grant.

One grant per MPRN, ever. If solar PV has already been grant-funded at that meter — by you or by whoever owned it before you — that's it. Worth checking before you budget around it on a house you've recently bought.

Who can apply: homeowners, including private landlords. Also owner management companies and Approved Housing Bodies.

And the amount, since it's the next question: the grant is tiered — €700 per kWp up to the first 2 kWp, then €200 per additional kWp up to 4 kWp, capped at €1,800. That cap is being held at €1,800 for 2026.

If your house was built after 2020, the grant isn't available — but the system still is, and for a lot of newer homes with good roof orientation the figures work without it. Different conversation, not a closed door.

⚠️ Grant rules and rates change. Check seai.ie before committing to anything.

📍 Clear Sky Energy, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
📞 057 937 4247 · ✉️ [email protected]
🌐 clearskyenergy.ie

Business owners: this one's worth a look 📈SEAI has temporarily raised its Non-Domestic Microgen Grant to up to 45% of th...
15/10/2026

Business owners: this one's worth a look 📈

SEAI has temporarily raised its Non-Domestic Microgen Grant to up to 45% of the eligible cost of a solar PV system, up from about 23% before.

- For new applications made from 6 October 2026 to 6 July 2027
- Covers businesses, farms, schools, clubs, community centres and non-profits
- Systems from 1 kWp up to 1,000 kWp

The grant must be approved before any work starts, so the sooner you apply, the better.

We'll survey your site, size the system to your daytime use and work out the grant.

Talk to us: clearskyenergy.ie or 057 937 4247.

The grant paid is the lower of SEAI's table amount or 45% of the invoiced cost. Subject to SEAI eligibility.

Good news if your house is fairly new 🏡Until now, the SEAI solar grant was only for homes built before 2021. Since 6 Oct...
15/10/2026

Good news if your house is fairly new 🏡

Until now, the SEAI solar grant was only for homes built before 2021. Since 6 October, any home built and lived in before 2025 can apply.

That means thousands of homes built between 2021 and 2024 can now get:
- up to €1,800 towards solar panels
- €600 towards a home battery

Not sure if yours qualifies? Send us your Eircode and we'll check.

Book a free survey: clearskyenergy.ie or ring 057 937 4247.

Subject to SEAI eligibility. Grant approval needed before any work starts.

Two dates in the SEAI process catch people out every year. Neither is complicated. Both cost you the grant if you miss t...
15/10/2026

Two dates in the SEAI process catch people out every year. Neither is complicated. Both cost you the grant if you miss them. ⏳

Deadline one: eight months. From the date your grant is approved, you have eight months to get the works completed and all the required documentation submitted. That sounds generous, and it is — right up until someone gets approval, parks the idea for a winter, comes back in spring and finds the clock nearly run out.

Deadline two: the BER, before drawdown. Every applicant must have a post-works BER assessment carried out. Not before the install — after it. And it has to be done before the grant is paid out. It's a separate appointment with a registered BER assessor, it needs scheduling, and it is the single most common reason a grant sits unpaid weeks after a system is happily generating.

Two things worth knowing alongside them:

▪️ Apply and get approval before any work starts. Work done before approval isn't eligible, and no amount of good will fixes that afterwards.
▪️ The grant is paid to you, not to us. We don't deduct it and we can't fast-track it.

We'll flag both dates at the point of quotation and chase you about the BER. It isn't our money — but we'd still rather you got it.

📍 Clear Sky Energy, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
📞 057 937 4247 · ✉️ [email protected]
🌐 clearskyenergy.ie

Everyone asks what size battery they need. Almost nobody is told what other people actually buy. 🔋 Across the jobs we've...
14/10/2026

Everyone asks what size battery they need. Almost nobody is told what other people actually buy. 🔋

Across the jobs we've completed this year, home batteries land in three broad brackets.

Around 5 kWh. One unit. Enough to carry an average evening — the dinner, the washing, the telly, the lights — on sunshine banked earlier. Suits smaller households and anyone whose main goal is simply to stop exporting cheap and buying back dear.

Around 10 kWh. Two units, and comfortably the most common choice. Covers the evening and most of the overnight base load, and leaves real headroom to charge on a night-rate tariff in winter.

16 kWh and up. Larger households, electric heating, an EV on the drive, or a home office that runs all day. At this size you're not just shifting solar — you're running a meaningful share of the house off stored energy regardless of the weather.

The honest rule: size the battery to your evening and overnight consumption, not to your solar array. A 5 kW array and a 16 kWh battery is a mismatch unless you're also charging from night rate. A big array with no storage exports your best hours for a fraction of what you'll pay to buy them back.

Dig out a recent bill, find the daily average usage, and we'll size it off real numbers instead of a guess.

📍 Clear Sky Energy, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
📞 057 937 4247 · ✉️ [email protected]
🌐 clearskyenergy.ie

Who's actually coming to your house?With Clear Sky it's a small local team from High Street, Tullamore. The same people ...
14/10/2026

Who's actually coming to your house?

With Clear Sky it's a small local team from High Street, Tullamore. The same people survey your roof, design the system, fit it, and pick up the phone afterwards.

We work right across the Midlands: Offaly, Westmeath, Laois, Kildare, Longford, Meath, Roscommon and North Tipperary.

Book a free survey: clearskyenergy.ie or ring 057 937 4247.

The new SEAI grants are live ☀️From 6 October, more Irish homes can get help going solar:- up to €1,800 for solar panels...
14/10/2026

The new SEAI grants are live ☀️

From 6 October, more Irish homes can get help going solar:
- up to €1,800 for solar panels
- a NEW €600 grant for a home battery (5 kWh or bigger)
- that's up to €2,400 in total
- and homes built and lived in before 2025 now qualify (it used to be before 2021)

We're an SEAI registered solar company, so we work the grant out with you and handle the paperwork.

Book a free survey: clearskyenergy.ie or ring 057 937 4247.

Subject to SEAI eligibility. Grant approval needed before any work starts.

Two panels the same size on the same roof can be built completely differently inside. Here's the difference without the ...
14/10/2026

Two panels the same size on the same roof can be built completely differently inside. Here's the difference without the sales gloss. ⚙️

N-type. The silicon is doped differently to the older P-type wafers almost everything used to be built on. In practice: less light-induced degradation in the first year, a slower decline afterwards, and better behaviour when the panel is hot. The warranties reflect it — manufacturers now routinely guarantee a higher percentage of original output at year 25 than P-type ever managed.

Back-contact (ABC). Every panel has to get current off the front of the cell. Most do it with thin metal fingers and busbars running across the face — and every one of those lines is a sliver of silicon not collecting light. Back-contact moves all of that wiring behind the cell. No lines on the front. More active area, higher efficiency per square metre, and a panel that handles partial shading better because of how the cells are interconnected.

It's also, unmistakably, the better-looking panel. All black, no grid. On a front elevation that matters to people more than they usually admit.

Which do you want? Depends on the roof. Plenty of space and a tight budget: N-type mono-facial does the job properly. Limited roof area, awkward shading, or a house where the finish matters: back-contact earns its premium.

We fit both. We'll tell you which one your roof actually needs.

📍 Clear Sky Energy, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
📞 057 937 4247 · ✉️ [email protected]
🌐 clearskyenergy.ie

This is the least glamorous thing we do, and it's the reason your install date doesn't move. 📦 A lot of solar jobs in Ir...
13/10/2026

This is the least glamorous thing we do, and it's the reason your install date doesn't move. 📦

A lot of solar jobs in Ireland run on a just-in-time model: the installer takes your deposit, orders your kit, and your date depends on a container arriving somewhere. When that works, it's efficient. When a shipment slips — and shipments slip — your install moves and nobody can tell you by how much.

We hold stock. Panels, inverters, batteries, mounting systems, cable and consumables, sitting in Tullamore where we can see them.

It ties up money. It's the right call anyway, for three reasons:

📅 Dates hold. We quote you a date because the kit for your job is already here, not because we're hoping.

🔁 Faults get fixed fast. An inverter that fails in year two gets swapped from the shelf, not ordered in and waited on while you watch a dead system on the wall.

🔢 Every unit is tracked. Panels, batteries and inverters are logged by serial number against the job they went to. When a warranty claim comes up in year eight, we can tell you exactly what you have and when it was fitted.

There's a simple test. Ask where the replacement part would come from. The answer tells you whether an installer holds stock or holds their breath.

📍 Clear Sky Energy, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
📞 057 937 4247 · ✉️ [email protected]
🌐 clearskyenergy.ie

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High Street
Tullamore

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Monday 8am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 5:30pm
Thursday 8am - 5:30pm
Friday 8am - 5:30pm

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