Lorie’s new build home 

Our customer, Lorie, originally contacted us with architects plans for a new build house. She wanted the house to be highly energy efficient… generating its own power without this negatively impacting on the character and aesthetic of his soon-to-be-built home.

Back to black 

We loved working with Lorie to bring this vision to life and we specified all black solar panels built into the roof.

The all black panels have a black frame, black mono crystalline cells, and a black back-sheet with a neat finish, blending particularly well with dark slate and dark flat roof.

We worked with Lorie’s main contractor and roofer to complete this solar installation and in terms of the look for Lorie’s new home, the panels worked perfectly.

As Lorie says,

“We selected the black panels largely for the aesthetics and, given that we were building a new house, it made no sense to put a roof covering on the tiles so we covered the flat roof. It integrates with the house much better”.

Never a truer word, we say!

Panel power 

Well, the aesthetic is certainly attractive, but what about the solar generation?

As Lorie tells us,

“We can get over 30kWh on really sunny days. In 2022 to date, we have had 3553hWh. We have battery storage too and our electricity bill is less than £50 per month, which isn’t bad for an electric only house and one electric car”.

Not bad indeed!

A great experience 

Here’s to architecture that not only looks beautiful, but that also definitely generates the power and here’s to a great solar installation experience all round. James, our Head of Residential

Solar, led the project and as Lorie says,

“It was a really good experience, easy, and James was great. He did what he said, when he said he would”.



We can’t say fairer than that!