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Is it worth paying 30%, or £1000 extra in order to be able to see an extra row of roof tiles? OK, those tiles may be particularly pretty, would you not prefer to spend this money on a framed painting, to view indoors, or maybe even some other energy efficiency investments? The presumption of having to maximise energy delivery per square metre of solar panel is, perhaps surprisingly, not always important. The key fact to remember is that over 95% of users of solar are not short of roof space. This “component by component” approach to solar can be useful in its way, but focussing on the big picture of total health safety, environment and customer satisfaction issues may be at least as useful.