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• Utilities Plan your solar panel system with helpful tools such as our Solar Panel Calculator and Solar Panel Wiring Diagrams.
• Guides Suggestions for the most appropriate solutions for renewable power on narrowboats, caravans and motorhomes, garden sheds, expedition use and other applications.
• Articles Understand what's what with our articles on how solar panels work, the different types available, regulators, economics and more.
• Gallery See some of the applications our panels have been put to.
• Questions? Browse some of the questions we've been asked - or ask your own!

Welcome to the information pages. Profit isn't the main motivation behind Midsummer Energy - making a difference to the world we live in by encouraging sustainable lifestyles is more important to us. So we're not interested in simply flogging expensive hardware to you and making a quick buck - we'd much rather you took a bit of time to carefully consider what you need from your renewable energy system, get the most appropriate components for your needs, and be realistic about what you can expect from them.

We've taken some time to put together a number of pages on renewable energy systems, and we keep adding more. If you are looking for an energy solution for a particular application you might want to glance through the guides we're written for yachts, caravans, narrowboats, expeditions and so on. Then perhaps visit the solar panel calculator to work out roughly what you might expect your proposed system to power; and check out the wiring diagrams page to see how simple it is to wire up solar panels.

We also design, build and ship custom power systems large and small, and examples of our work are in use from a fish farm in the Scottish Highlands to a remote weather station in Antarctica.

You can always get in touch if you have any further questions - or if you know what you need, just follow the link on the right to the shop! FAQ