Disclaimer

Everything published on SolarBazaar — articles, guides, news, product records, specification tables, comparisons and calculator outputs — is provided for general educational and informational purposes. It is written to help you understand solar technology and to narrow down options before you speak to a supplier or installer.

It is not a substitute for advice tailored to your property, your electricity use, your budget or the rules that apply where you live. Solar installations are site-specific: two buildings on the same street can justify very different systems.

We make reasonable efforts to keep our content accurate and current, but we give no warranty that it is complete, correct or applicable to your situation. Any reliance you place on it is strictly at your own risk.

Nothing on SolarBazaar constitutes financial, investment, tax or accounting advice, and we are not authorised to give it. A solar installation is a significant capital decision, often financed, and usually assessed over a payback period of a decade or more.

Every savings, payback, return-on-investment, bill-offset or lifetime-value figure we publish is a modelled estimate. Those models are driven by assumptions that vary substantially from one site and one household to another, including:

• electricity tariffs, standing charges, time-of-use bands and future price inflation;
• export, feed-in or net-metering rates, and whether such a scheme is open to new participants at all;
• local solar irradiance, shading, roof pitch and orientation, and soiling;
• your consumption profile — how much of the generated energy you actually use on site rather than export;
• annual panel degradation, inverter replacement, maintenance and insurance costs;
• installed system price, which depends on your installer, market conditions and the equipment specified;
• grants, subsidies, tax treatment and financing terms available to you.

A small change to any one of these assumptions can move a payback estimate by years. Before committing funds, consult a qualified financial adviser and use written quotations from installers rather than our estimates.

SolarBazaar does not carry out structural, electrical or roof assessments and does not produce system designs. We cannot see your roof, your loft, your consumer unit, your earthing arrangement or your existing wiring.

A safe and lawful installation requires a physical site survey by a qualified, licensed installer or electrical engineer, covering at minimum:

• the structural capacity of the roof and the suitability of its covering and fixings;
• electrical design, protective devices, isolation, earthing and cable sizing;
• shading analysis, string design and inverter or optimiser selection;
• fire safety, access and, where applicable, battery siting and ventilation.

Compliance with the wiring regulations, building regulations, planning rules, grid-connection and notification requirements that apply at your location is the responsibility of you and your installer. Requirements differ by country and often by distribution network operator. Never attempt to install, modify or connect photovoltaic or battery equipment yourself unless you are qualified and authorised to do so — these are high-voltage DC systems and the risks include electrocution and fire.

We are an information platform. We do not sell, supply, install, commission or maintain solar equipment, and we do not act as an agent or broker for anyone who does.

• We do not vet, accredit or certify installers. If a company appears on the Platform or in an advertisement, that is not a recommendation, an endorsement, or confirmation that it is licensed, insured or competent. Check credentials, registrations, insurance and references yourself.
• We cannot guarantee any yield, saving or output. Actual generation depends on weather, installation quality, equipment, shading, maintenance and your own usage.
• We are not party to your contract. Any purchase, installation, warranty, finance agreement or dispute is entirely between you and the supplier, installer or lender concerned.

Warranty terms, performance guarantees and after-sales support are matters for the manufacturer and installer. Where we summarise a warranty, that summary is for orientation only — the manufacturer's own current warranty document is the only binding statement of its terms.

Our product records are compiled from manufacturer datasheets, technical documentation, certification listings and other publicly available sources. We normalise that material into a common structure so products can be compared side by side.

Please treat all product data with the following in mind:

• manufacturers revise specifications, model numbers and product ranges without notice, and a record may reflect an earlier revision;
• the same model name can cover regional variants with different electrical characteristics, connectors, certifications or dimensions;
• rated figures are typically measured under standard test conditions, which do not represent real-world operating conditions;
• normalising data across manufacturers who measure and report differently can introduce rounding or interpretation differences;
• listings may include products that are discontinued, not certified for your market, or unavailable in your region;
• prices, where shown, are indicative and change frequently.

Always verify specifications against the manufacturer's current datasheet, and confirm availability and certification with your supplier, before purchasing or specifying any product. Where a figure on the Platform conflicts with the manufacturer's documentation, the manufacturer's documentation prevails.

Our calculators are simplified models. They are designed to give you a quick sense of scale — roughly how big a system might need to be, roughly what it might save — not to produce an engineering result.

What the models assume

• typical or regional average solar irradiance, rather than measured data for your address;
• unshaded, reasonably oriented array placement unless you tell us otherwise;
• generalised system loss factors covering inverter efficiency, cabling, temperature, soiling and mismatch;
• a fixed annual degradation rate applied evenly over the system life;
• the tariffs, export rates and prices you enter, or defaults that may not match your actual contract;
• simplified consumption profiles, rather than half-hourly metered data;
• for battery tools, generalised round-trip efficiency, usable capacity and cycling behaviour.

Results are rounded and presented as ranges or single figures for readability. They are not quotations, not offers, and not a commitment from us or from anyone else. Only a written quotation from an installer who has surveyed your site reflects what a system will actually cost and deliver.

Using SolarBazaar, creating an account, running a calculator, contacting us or subscribing to our updates does not create any adviser-client, consultant-client, engineer-client or fiduciary relationship between you and MAKSOF GLOBAL LTD.

Correspondence with our team is general information, not personalised professional advice, and should not be treated as such.

The Platform links to and references external material — manufacturer websites and datasheets, standards bodies, government and regulator pages, retailers, installers and news outlets. We include these so you can go to the primary source.

We do not control that material and are not responsible for its content, accuracy, availability or the practices of the organisations that publish it. A link is not an endorsement. Content originating from third parties — including syndicated news, manufacturer descriptions, advertising and user submissions — reflects the views of its author, not ours.

SolarBazaar is free to use. We fund it through advertising, sponsorship and affiliate arrangements, and we would rather you knew exactly how that works.

• Affiliate links. Some outbound links to retailers or suppliers may earn us a commission if you click through and buy. This costs you nothing extra and does not change the price you pay.
• Advertising. We accept payment for display advertising and for promoted placements on the Platform.
• Sponsored content. We may publish content that a brand has paid for. Where we do, it is labelled as sponsored or promoted on the page itself.
• Manufacturer relationships. Brands may supply us with data, documentation or product information. Supplying data does not buy favourable treatment.

Commercial relationships never determine our editorial assessments, scores, comparisons or rankings. A brand cannot pay to be rated higher, to have a competitor removed, or to have a criticism deleted. Our advertising policy sets out the separation between commercial and editorial work in full.

Some content on the Platform is produced or assisted by large language models and other AI tools — for example drafting explanatory articles, summarising lengthy datasheets and reports, classifying product specifications, and generating page summaries.

AI systems can produce statements that read fluently but are wrong. They can reproduce out-of-date figures, misread a specification, or state a plausible-sounding number that has no source. We review AI-assisted material before publication and check technical claims against primary sources, but errors can still reach the page.

Our AI transparency statement explains exactly where we use AI, where we do not, how human review works, and how to report a mistake.

SolarBazaar serves an international audience, and almost everything that determines whether solar makes sense financially is set locally.

• grants, rebates, tax credits and VAT treatment differ by country and are frequently withdrawn, capped or replaced;
• net metering, net billing, feed-in tariffs and export payments vary by country, by utility, and sometimes by connection date;
• electricity tariff structures and price levels differ enormously between markets;
• permitting, grid-connection approval, metering and inspection requirements are set by national and local authorities and network operators;
• product certification and compliance marking requirements are market-specific — a model sold in one country may not be approved in another.

Content or defaults written with one market in mind may not apply to yours, and schemes we describe may have changed since publication. Always confirm the current position with your national or regional energy authority, your utility or network operator, and a local installer.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, MAKSOF GLOBAL LTD accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from your use of, or reliance on, the Platform or its content — including decisions to purchase, specify, size, finance or install a solar system.

The full limitation of liability, including the liabilities we do not and cannot exclude — such as death or personal injury caused by negligence, and fraud — is set out in section 13 of our terms and conditions. Nothing in this disclaimer affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

If you spot something wrong — an outdated specification, a broken assumption in a calculator, a superseded tariff or a factual mistake in an article — please tell us. Corrections from readers and manufacturers are one of the most reliable ways our data improves.

Email info@solarbazaar.io or use our contact form. It helps if you include:

• the URL of the page;
• the exact statement or figure you believe is incorrect;
• what the correct information is;
• a source we can verify it against — ideally a manufacturer datasheet, standards document or official government or regulator page.

We review every report and, where an error is confirmed, we correct the page or annotate it.