Solar Tiles
Solex PV Tiles
Our patented solar power tiles provide electricity for your home or business, whilst blending in seamlessly with your roof. Each roof intergrated tile provides emmission-free electricity to offset rising energy bills and reduce your cabon footprint. Additionally, surplus electricity produced can be sold back to the grid under the Smart Export Guarantee Scheme, or stored in a battery system. You can learn more about the technology that makes this possible.
£95 / sqm (winter offer valid until April 2025)
Highly efficient monocrystalline technology supplied at a low cost and short lead time from stock.
£810 / kWp
Solex solar tiles provide generation value greater than most solar panel systems and due to their smaller size, greater or complete roof coverage can be achieved, giving even more electricity generation.
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Flexibility Within Design
Solex solar shingles are designed to cover the whole roof, from edge to edge and eaves to ridge. Alternatively, our tiles are versatile and can interlock with traditional slates.
Seamless Apperance
Less aesthetically intrusive than traditional solar panels, advantagous when dealing with planning authorities.
Durable Roof Structure
Solex tiles form a complete weatherproof roof covering which has a construction warranty of 25 years. Our mounting system is designed to withstand high wind and heavy rainfall.
Highly Efficient
The performance of our solar tiles is on par with high efficiency solar panels, with an average generation capacity of 170 Wp / sqm. However, this will depend on the roof layout.
How do they work?
Solex solar roof slate tiles operate in the same way as conventional solar panels. Each roofing tile uses a collection of monocrystalline solar cells to convert photons from sunlight into DC electricity through the photovoltaic effect. As each tile is connected to the next, this brings the overall system voltage up to a level suitable for home use.
Each tile is constructed with the silicon cells laminated between a toughened glass substrate and superstrate, using an EPE (EVA/POE/EVA) multi-layer encapsulant, with a butyl edge tape sealant. Toughened glass is an ideal construction material for this application due to the material strength and fire proof nature of glass. The EPE encapsulant bring the adhesive benefits of EVA with the water ingress protection that POE offers. The introduction of a butyle edge tape prevents delamination even further.
When Solex solar roof tiles are installed, each tile uses 3 aluminium support bars screwed directly into the battens, to hold the tile on the roof. Then, as the roof is installed, our double-lapped patten ensures adequate weatherproofing for even the worst weather. Each tile has “dead zones”, where the silicon cells as not present. These dead zones are the areas of the tiles that overlap with other tiles on the roof, which prevents loss from shading.