Let’s be honest, solar isn’t a low-cost product. Quality panels, proper electrical protection, and a compliant installation take time and expertise.
So when one quote comes in thousands cheaper than the rest, you have to ask yourself,  where’s the saving coming from?

Cheaper often means under-specified equipment, cut corners on safety, or unqualified installers. Some even use non-MCS-approved components, which invalidates your insurance and voids your warranty before you’ve even started generating a single unit of power.

There’s a darker side to cheap solar that rarely gets mentioned, safety.
Poor-quality DC isolators, mismatched connectors, and undersized cables are a recipe for disaster. They overheat, they arc, and yes, they can cause fires.

We’ve seen melted isolators, burned junction boxes, and scorched roof timbers, all caused by installers who cut corners or used bargain-bin components to hit a price. The risk is real, and it’s not worth the gamble.

Here’s something most people never think about,  if an installer doesn’t care enough about their own safety to use proper scaffolding, how much do you think they care about your property, your roof, or your risk?

We still see installers clambering up ladders with panels on their shoulders to save a few hundred quid. It’s reckless and illegal. What most homeowners don’t realise is that if someone is injured while working unsafely on your property, you can be held liable.

If a company isn’t prepared to invest in its own safety, you can be sure it’s cutting corners elsewhere. A professional solar business will always include compliant scaffolding in the quote, because the safety of everyone on site matters.

Solar is a 25-year investment. A properly designed system will quietly do its job year after year, lowering your bills and raising your property’s value. A cheap one might limp along for a while before the failures begin. By the time you’ve paid for repairs, replacements, and lost generation, that “bargain” system will have cost you more than doing it properly in the first place.

We’re often called in to fix failed systems fitted by others. In most cases, the client ends up paying almost double what a high-quality installation would have cost upfront. Painful lesson, easily avoided.

At The Green Way Solar, we don’t sell cheap, we sell value.
That means:

1. Premium panels from trusted manufacturers like Aiko, Trina, and Perlight
2. Reliable inverters from SolarEdge, Tesla, and FoxESS
3. Fully MCS-certified installations
4. Insurance-backed 10-year workmanship warranty
5. Ongoing support through our Maintenance Club

Our Maintenance Club gives you annual system health checks, performance monitoring, and priority call-outs. We keep your system running at its best, long after the installation team has packed up and gone. That’s the part the low-cost outfits never tell you about because they don’t stick around.

We don’t compete on being the cheapest, we compete on being the best.
Because real value isn’t about the lowest price, it’s about the longest life. The system that performs safely, efficiently, and reliably for decades.

So before you go for the cheapest quote, ask yourself:
Would you rather pay once for quality, or twice for regret?